How much does Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust give?

Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust reported 30 grants totaling $67,925 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (85%), Education (3%), Human Services (2%).

Who are Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Outreach Foundation of the Presbyterian Church Inc ($50k), Presbyterian Home for Children ($6k), Princeton Theological Seminary ($5k).

Does Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund, The Daniel Foundation of Alabama, Christian Community Foundation of Memphis.

Where is Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust based?

Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust is based in AL.

Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust

Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust at a glance

· Private foundation

Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust

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.

$68k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$42k

Largest

01What it funds

0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$416kEducation$16kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$7kPhilanthropy$5kInternational$4kHealth$4kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k28 grants · $16k
$10k–50k2 grants · $52k

$500

Median grant

States reached

$1.1M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
SOUTH HIGHLAND PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$42,045
THE OUTREACH FOUNDATION	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$2,000
BEESON DIVINITY SCHOOL	$1,000
ST PAUL SCHOOL	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,000
BOLD SPRINGS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH	$1,000
DIG DEVELOPMENT IN GARDEN	$750
STUDIO BY THE TRACKS	$700
UPTOWN COLUMBUS	$530
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$500
HARPETH HALL SCHOOL	$500
REFUGE FOUNDATION	$500
COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS	$500
PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 98% of Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 75% of the giving stays in AL; by stated purpose, 0%.

Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trustlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

How this is measured

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$460k · 33 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.

33 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$460k

$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%

+6%

Still filing today

58%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesReligionArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

OF
OUTREACH FOUNDATION OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH INC
8× · 2018–2025 · $50k · revenue +9%
PH
PRESBYTERIAN HOME FOR CHILDREN
7× · 2019–2025 · $6k · revenue +14%
TH
THE HARPETH HALL SCHOOL
7× · 2019–2025 · $4k · revenue +95%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2021 · $1k
RU
REFORMED UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIP AT VANDERBILT
one grant, 2019 · $1k
VL
VERA LLOYD HOME FOR CHILDREN
one grant, 2019 · $1k

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.

04Its field

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.

Christianity Today International

Christianity Today is a global community inspired by evangelical conviction to advance the stories and ideas of the kingdom of God. Our mission is to elevate the storytellers and sages of the global church.

Religion

Dallas International University

As a christian university, we provide education and research opportunities preparing global leaders to partner with local communities.

Education

Houston Christian University

The mission of houston christian university is to provide a learning experience that instills in students a passion for academic, spiritual, and professional excellence as a result of our central confession, "jesus christ is lord."

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Kingdom Advisors Inc

Kingdom advisors is a discipleship ministry serving christian financial professionals. the organization encourages, educates, and empowers christian financial professionals with biblical wisdom to be effective disciples of jesus christ in…

Religion

Financial Planning Ministry

Financial planning ministry, inc. (fpm) is a not-for-profit organization devoted to assisting in the performance of the functions of christian churches by serving their financial needs.

Health

American Anglican Council

Aac's purpose is to build up and defend great commission anglican churches in north america through developing faithful leaders, equipping local churches and engaging the church and culture with gospel clarity.

Religion

Union University

Union university provides christ-centered education that promotes excellence and character development in service to church and society.

Education

Bibleproject

Bibleproject's mission is to help people experience the bible as a unified story that leads to jesus. this is achieved by creating biblical videos to be regularly released on a newly-created youtube channel. (continued on schedule o.)each…

Religion

International Leadership Institute

The international leadership institute (ili) changes history by accelerating the spread of the gospel through training and mobilizing leaders of leaders to reach their nations. ili accomplishes this purpose through cutting edge leadership…

Religion

Mid-Atlantic Christian University

Mid-atlantic christian university is an undergraduate institution of christian higher learning whose mission is to impact the world by transforming ordinary people into extraordinary christian leaders. students are taught to think…

Education

Annapolis Christian Academy

Private school for grades k-12

Education

Reformed University Inc

Provide education in theology, divinity, religious education, ministerial training, business and organizational leadership.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Presbyterian Home for Children; the most unlike its peers is The Arc San Francisco. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

45 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. 45 of the 85 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

45/45

Grantees still filing

32/45

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$456,776Education$12,050Human Services$6,250Arts & Culture$3,800Religion$3,250International$2,250Youth Development$2,000

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.

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.

Orlean & Ralph W Beeson FundAL17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orlean & Ralph W Beeson Fund · The Daniel Foundation of Alabama · Christian Community Foundation of Memphis · The Hackney Foundation · Hill Crest Foundation Inc · Mike and Gillian Goodrich Foundation · Altecstyslinger Foundation · The Community Foundation of Greater Birmingham · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Servant Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Edwin P and Marie H Gray Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home