· Private foundation
Gray Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k44 grants · $101k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
Anchored by a single position — about 94% of reported assets are held in Of Amgen Inc.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Center for Hope Hospice | $15,000 |
| Trinity United Church | $10,000 |
| Doctors' Without Borders | $8,000 |
| Trinitas Health Foundation | $6,000 |
| Salvation ArmyStar Lake Camp | $5,000 |
| Mercy Ships | $5,000 |
| Union County College Foundation | $5,000 |
| Open4Ever | $5,000 |
| St Judes' | $5,000 |
| Defence Intelligence Memorial Foundation | $5,000 |
| Monmouth University | $5,000 |
| Deep River Land Trust | $4,000 |
| Institute for Justice | $4,000 |
| Committee to Protect Journalists | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 89% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +28% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
48 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC6× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +98%- MUMONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC3× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +5%
- UCUNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2024 · $16k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- SHSOMERSET HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -3%
- UCUnion County Collegeone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CTCommittee to Protect Jounalistsone grant, 2020 · $4k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Ilsi is a global, nonprofit federation dedicated to generating and advancing emerging science and groundbreaking research to ensure foods are safe, nutritious and sustainable, and that they improve planetary and human health and well-being…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Our mission is to act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…
Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…
Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The iib represents the interests of the international banking community before u.s. legislative/regulatory bodies liaises with international regulatory bodies serves as a source of information to the media and other interested parties…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Hope Hospice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tigger Stavola Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
53 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 104 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 TRINITAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR HOPE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNION COUNTY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEEP RIVER CONSERVATION TRUST INC DEEP RIVER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Sylvia's Children Inc ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds HOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC ↗
- Who funds Youth & Family Counseling Service Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds DEEP RIVER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds TRI-TOWN YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF USA ↗
- Who funds WILD LANDS WILD HORSES FUND CORP ↗
- Who funds DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DEEP RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds A LITTLE COMPASSION ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE PROTECTION INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds UNSHATTERED INC ↗
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: Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Clare and Robert Gray Charitable Foundation Inc · Kitchings Family Foundation · The Burkehaven Family Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Family 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.
- Tri-Town Youth Services Bureau Inc — 10% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Arts Center at Killingworth Inc — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Center for Hope Hospice Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Alden Kindred of America Inc — 1% of income from government
- Monmouth University Inc — 0% 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.
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