How much does Gray Charitable Trust give?

Gray Charitable Trust reported 21 grants totaling $703,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 23 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Gray Charitable Trust fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (38%), Education (27%), Arts & Culture (23%).

Who are Gray Charitable Trust's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Philadelphia Museum of Art ($715k), The Academy of Vocal Arts ($365k), Uc Riverside Foundation ($355k).

Does Gray Charitable Trust fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does 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 Gray Charitable Trust?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Independence Foundation, The Philadelphia Foundation, David a Bramble Foundation Inc.

Where is Gray Charitable Trust based?

Gray Charitable Trust is based in NY.

Gray Charitable Trust

Gray Charitable Trust at a glance

· 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.

$703k

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$2.9MEducation$2.0MArts & Culture$1.8MEnvironment$255kHuman Services$214kFood & Nutrition$184kPhilanthropy$100kAnimals$43kOther$0

02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k9 grants · $45k
$10k–50k6 grants · $101k
$50k–250k6 grants · $557k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$25M

Total assets

Largest grants
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
CCSA FOUNDATION	$50,000
MAGEE REHABILITATION HOSPITAL	$50,000
PHILADELPHIA ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION	$25,000
HORIZONS OF KENT & QUEEN ANNE'S	$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
SETTLEMENT MUSIC SCHOOL	$5,000
ADKINS ARBORETUM	$5,000

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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$6.1M · 45 repeat orgs$177k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

45 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.1M

$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%

+16%

Still filing today

64%

54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther

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

PM
PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART
6× · 2017–2022 · $715k · revenue +14%
TA
THE ACADEMY OF VOCAL ARTS
7× · 2017–2023 · $365k · revenue +25%
UR
UC RIVERSIDE FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $355k · revenue +1%

Funded once

CA
CLEAN AIR COUNCIL-COLLEGE TOGETHER
one grant, 2018 · $45k
TP
THE PHILADELPHIA EDUCATION FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $45k · revenue +87%
TO
TRUSTEE OF UNIV OF PA
one grant, 2017 · $25k

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.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia

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,…

Health

Drexel University

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…

Education

Concerto Soloists Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

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…

Arts & Culture

Point Park University

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…

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Phillips Exeter Academy

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…

Education

The Phillips Collection

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,…

Arts & Culture

The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education

Manhattan School of Music

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…

Arts & Culture

Play On Philly

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.

Arts & Culture

Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech

Saint Joseph's University

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…

Education

Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Philadelphia Education Fund; 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.

04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)

38/39

Grantees still filing

30/39

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,356,000Education$1,758,000Arts & Culture$1,673,000Health$1,289,000Human Services$204,000Environment$190,200Food & Nutrition$144,000

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.

Independence FoundationPA17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Gray Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 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

12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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