· Private foundation
Gray Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
92% of Gray Family Foundation Inc’s FY2022 grant dollars went to Johnson Charitable Gift Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2022 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2020, the last year Gray Family Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $68k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2022.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k5 grants · $14k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST ANDREWS BY THE SEA UM CHURCH | $54,000 |
| HOSPICE CARE OF THE LOWCOUNTRY | $5,000 |
| MEMORY MATTERS | $5,000 |
| HILTON HEAD ISLAND DEEP WELL PROJECT | $2,000 |
| IMPACT 100 INC | $1,100 |
| GREENER GRASS | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 64% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call). Read against FY2020, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SAST ANDREWS BY THE SEA UM CHURCH4× · 2019–2022 · $95k
- RIREFUGE INC2× · 2021–2022 · $20k · revenue +100%
- I1IMPACT 100 INC3× · 2019–2021 · $3k · revenue -9%
Funded once
- HPHYDE PARK COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHone grant, 2019 · $5k
- MTMETHODIST THEOLOGICAL IN OHIOone grant, 2019 · $5k
- HMHAYMORE MEMORIAL BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
7 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. 7 of the 12 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
Open a dossier: Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gray Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gray Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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