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Gloria Gray Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$112k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
0191% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Health$282kHuman Services$183kArts & Culture$135kCommunity Improvement$93kYouth Development$50kEducation$30kCrime & Legal$23kHousing & Shelter$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $90k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$759k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RYASP Catalyst for Community Change$10,000
Doctors without Borders$10,000
Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
United Jewish Appeal$10,000
NEWTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
World Central Kitchen$10,000
ARTS ESCAPE INC$10,000
Regional Hospice and Home Care$10,000
MOLLY TANGO FOUNDATION$5,000
Elder House$5,000
CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT AND EDUCATIO$5,000
CALVARY FUND$3,000
AISLING COMMUNITY CENTER$2,000
Alzheimers Association$1,500
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $240k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 10% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $7k → 14%ANN'S PLACE: $15k → 9%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $5k → 14%ANN'S PLACE: $10k → 9%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $5k → 14%ANN'S PLACE: $10k → 9%GOOD COUNSEL INC: $3k → 14%ELDER HOUSE: $12k → 9%GOOD COUNSEL: $3k → 14%Elder House: $10k → 9%Elder House: $10k → 9%Elder House: $5k → 9%ANN'S PLACE: $10k → 9%ANN'S PLACE: $10k → 9%ELDERHOUSE: $10k → 9%ANN'S PLACE: $5k → 9%ELDERHOUSE: $10k → 9%ELDERHOUSE: $10k → 9%ELDERHOUSE: $10k → 9%MOLLY ANN TANGO MENORIAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%MOLLY ANN TANGO MENORIAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%MOLLY ANN TANGO MENORIAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%MOLLY ANN TANGO MENORIAL FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$887k · 25 repeat orgs$73k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
12

Total granted

$887k
$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+27%

Still filing today

48%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • EI
    ELDERHOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $77k · revenue +21%
  • WC
    WESTERN CONNECTICUT YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +98%
  • AP
    ANNS PLACE INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $60k · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • AP
    ANNES PLACE
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
  • PP
    Planned Paranthood of South New Eng
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • VN
    VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
2
Willamette Vital Health

We provide comprehensive hospice care services, supportive care for pain & symptom management for those with serious illness, and grief support. through our mission, willamette vital health supports adults and children living with a…

Human Services
3
Whitney Center Inc

Whitney center's mission, excellence in senior living, is grounded in the principal that all elders, regardless of physical or cognitive limitation, have the right to engage in life and seek fulfillment. our ideals of self-determination,…

Human Services
4
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
5
Kendal At Ithaca Inc

Our mission is to provide a mutually supportive environment for residents and staff, and to contribute to the greater ithaca community.

Human Services
6
Mcauley Center Inc

We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. mcauley center is a member of mercy community health and trinity health.

Human Services
7
Bridgeport Hospital

To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.

Health
8
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut Inc

Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…

9
Burnett Medical Center Inc

The mission of burnett medical center is to provide compassionate, comprehensive, community healthcare that exceeds our customer's expectations. our mission, as well as our vision and values, serves as a guideline for daily decision making…

Health
10
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
11
Bristol Hospital Inc

Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…

Health
12
Vna Home Health Services Inc

Vna home health services' mission is to improve the quality of their patients' lives by providing compassionate services that support care, comfort and independence. this is accomplished by coordinating and delivering the services needed…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Americares Free Clinics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rotary Club of Ridgefield. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

20 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 20 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RYASP Catalyst for Community Change — $80,000 · OtherRYASP Catalyst for Community ChangeARTS ESCAPE INC — $72,500 · OtherARTS ESCAPE INCIndividual grant recipient — $70,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientRegional Hospice and Home Care — $63,500 · OtherRegional Hospice and Home CareNEWTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER — $57,000 · OtherNEWTOWN COMMUNITY CENTERThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc — $33,000 · OtherThe Center For Empowerment And Education IncMOLLY TANGO FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherA BETTER CHANCE INC — $30,000 · OtherAISLING COMMUNTY CENTER — $23,500 · Other+16 more — $117,500 · Other+16 moreTHE MOLLY ANN TANGO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE MOLLY ANN TANGO MEMORIAL…ELDERHOUSE INC — $77,000 · Human ServicesELDERHOUSE INCANNS PLACE INC — $60,000 · Human ServicesANNS PLACE INCGOOD COUNSEL INC — $23,000 · Human ServicesGOOD COUNSEL INCWESTERN CONNECTICUT YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC — $62,000 · Arts & CultureCALVARY FUND INC — $18,000 · HealthVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $5,000 · HealthKEVINS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ATTN DINA SABIA — $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 · HealthAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC — $2,500 · HealthWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 · InternationalLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC — $17,500 · Housing & ShelterBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD — $5,000 · Youth Development
Other$577,000Human Services$240,000Arts & Culture$62,000Health$33,500International$25,000Housing & Shelter$17,500Youth Development$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MOLLY ANN TANGO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $80,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetELDERHOUSE INC — $77,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetARTS ESCAPE INC — $72,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetWESTERN CONNECTICUT YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC — $62,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetANNS PLACE INC — $60,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc — $33,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD COUNSEL INC — $23,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALVARY FUND INC — $18,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE MOLLY ANN TANGO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds ELDERHOUSE INC
  • Who funds ARTS ESCAPE INC
  • Who funds WESTERN CONNECTICUT YOUTH ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds ANNS PLACE INC
  • Who funds The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc
  • Who funds A BETTER CHANCE INC
  • Who funds GOOD COUNSEL INC
  • Who funds CALVARY FUND INC
  • Who funds LIFTING UP WESTCHESTER INC
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
  • Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD
  • Who funds KEVINS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ATTN DINA SABIA
  • Who funds VOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds THE GEORGE AND BARBARA BUSH FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC
  • Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT19.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

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

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Gloria Gray Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 80%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Western Connecticut Youth Orchestra Inc3% of income from government
  • Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gloria Gray Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Gloria Gray Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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