· Private foundation
Cloud L Cray Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT | $75,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER KC | $35,000 |
| SPARKWHEEL | $30,000 |
| KANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION | $30,000 |
| SIFMA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ATCHISON AMELIA EARHART FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VALLEY HOPE OF ATCHISON | $15,000 |
| YMCA OF GREATER KANSAS CITY | $10,000 |
| YOUTH VOLUNTEER CORPS | $10,000 |
| THEATRE ATCHISON | $6,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| ATCHISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| ATCHISON CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| HOPE FAMILY THERAPY INC | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $80k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SISPARKWHEEL INC6× · 2017–2025 · $210k · revenue +55%
- KCKANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION6× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +25%
- SFSIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC6× · 2020–2025 · $145k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- YEYouth Entrepreneurs Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +82%
- AAATCHISON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -5%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $15k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Atchison community health clinic exists to promote wellness by providing quality healthcare to all.
To identify our community's greatest needs and then initiate sustainable programs and interventions to improve the health outcomes, quality of life, and economic vitality for the atchison kansas community.
Engaging and aligning providers and stakeholders to establish Kansas as a role model for health care quality and a top performer in health care outcomes.
Bike share kc provides the greater kansas city area with a bike share system designed for transportation, recreation, and exercise.
The kansas cooperative council exists to promote, support and advance the interests, business success, and understanding of agricultural, utility, credit and consumer cooperatives and their members through legislation and regulatory…
Kansas action for children, inc. is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to shaping health, education and economic policy that improves the lives of kansas children and their families.
Out vision is: all communities across kansas value and support a high-quality early childhood care and education system.
To bring glory to god by providing children with an excellent christ- centered education rooted in the word of god.
To maintain real estate for the economic development of atchison county, kansas. to provide resources and assistance for continued economic development in atchison county, kansas.
The kansas children's discovery center enhances the lives of children and enriches the communities it serves.
Enriching western Kansas life through philanthropy, collaboration and leadership.
How this is measured
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds SPARKWHEEL INC ↗
- Who funds KANSAS COUNCIL ON ECONOMIC EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SIFMA FOUNDATION FOR INVESTOR EDUCATION (FIE) INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds ATCHISON AMELIA EARHART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Youth Volunteer Corps ↗
- Who funds HOPE FAMILY THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ATCHISON INC ↗
- Who funds HARVESTERS - THE COMMUNITY FOOD NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ATCHISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Greater Kansas City Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Youth Entrepreneurs Inc ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO INC ↗
- Who funds ATCHISON CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ATCHISON AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Atchison Art Association ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ATCHISON INC ↗
- Who funds GIVING THE BASICS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Courtney S Turner Charitable Trust · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · The Cloud L Cray and Sara J Cray Family Foundation · Evah C Cray Residuary Charitable Trust Sawmill Trust Company Trustee · Adair-Exchange Bank Foundation · Guy I Bromley Residuary Trust · Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · United Way of Greater Kansas City Inc · Laidacker M & Karen L Seaberg Seaberg Family Foundation · Pratt Family Charitable Foundation · Muchnic Foundation · William T Kemper Foundation Commerce Bank Trustee
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cloud L Cray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cloud L Cray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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