· Private foundation
Gray Charitable Trust
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $557k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUSTEES OF UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $200,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH OF PA DHS | $150,000 |
| ALTRU VISION - A LIONS EYE BANK | $55,000 |
| UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION | $52,000 |
| MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| CCSA FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| HORIZONS OF KENT & QUEEN ANNE'S | $25,000 |
| PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE | $16,000 |
| A BETTER CHANCE IN LOWER MERION | $15,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $10,000 |
| SHORERIVERS | $10,000 |
| YOUTHEATRE | $5,000 |
| ADKINS ARBORETUM | $5,000 |
| THE GATHERINGS | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $204k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PMPHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART6× · 2017–2022 · $715k · revenue +14%
- TATHE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS7× · 2017–2023 · $365k · revenue +25%
- URUC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- CACLEAN AIR COUNCIL-COLLEGE TOGETHERone grant, 2018 · $45k
- TPTHE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +87%
- TOTRUSTEE OF UNIV OF PAone grant, 2017 · $25k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
Provides innovative education in a dynamic urban setting. dedicated to academic excellence and community engagement,we prepare students of diverse backgrounds with the knowledge, skill,and experience to lead meaningful lives as informed…
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
Play on philly provides underserved children in philadelphia, a transformative music education experience that develops and inspires the behaviors and personal skills needed for a successful life.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philadelphia Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Historical Society of Kent Co Md. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 60 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds The Magee Memorial Hospital for Convalescents ↗
- Who funds THE WISTAR INSTITUTE OF ANATOMY AND BIOLOGY ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS OF KENT AND QUEEN ANNE'S ↗
- Who funds CCSA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALTRUVISION ↗
- Who funds SHARE FOOD PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds CANINE PARTNERS FOR LIFE ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE IN LOWER MERION INC ↗
- Who funds SHORERIVERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MENTOR FOR PHILLY INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENNSYLVANIA BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ADKINS ARBORETUM LTD ↗
- Who funds THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURE FUTURE OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Independence Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · David a Bramble Foundation Inc · Lindback Cr & Mf Foundation Tw Main · Mid Shore Community Foundation Inc · Wsfs Cares Foundation · Connelly Foundation · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Gray Charitable Trust 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Shorerivers Inc — 13% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
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.