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Gray Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$64M
Granted FY2025still arriving
132
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$25M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$124MHealth$32MYouth Development$28MScience & Tech$5.8MArts & Culture$4.2MRecreation & Sports$3.7MPhilanthropy$2.0MHuman Services$1.5MOther$0
02FY2025 · 132 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k54 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k46 grants · $4.1M
  • $250k+23 grants · $59M
$50,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$83M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY$25,000,000
THE TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA$13,128,273
NYC KIDS RISE INC$5,017,600
UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC$2,441,399
HARVARD UNIVERSITY$2,312,636
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER$1,070,000
CUNY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOUNDATION$1,000,000
THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK$1,000,000
MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER$1,000,000
MAYO CLINIC$1,000,000
YALE UNIVERSITY$999,246
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$932,280
VILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INC$550,000
JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$500,000
ASPHALT GREEN INC$500,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%GALLOPNYC: $10k → 13%SOUTHERN QUEENS PARK ASSOCIATION INC: $3k → 13%CHILDREN'S AID: $34k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $34k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $33k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $26k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $25k → 17%CHILDREN'S AID: $500 → 17%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 17%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 17%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $500k → 17%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $425k → 17%FRIENDS OF WHEELS: $25k → 17%GRAND STREET SETTLEMENT INC: $25k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $50k → 17%EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $250k → 17%EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $250k → 17%EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $250k → 17%EXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $250k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED INC: $25k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $50k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $50k → 17%TEAK FELLOWSHIP INC: $25k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $30k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $30k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $30k → 17%FUTURES IGNITE: $25k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $25k → 17%FUTURES IGNITE: $25k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%FUTURES IGNITE: $25k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%GOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 23% of Gray Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Gray Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$100M · 147 repeat orgs$34M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

147 repeat relationships: 106 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147
61

Total granted

$100M
$6.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

90%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NK
    NYC KIDS RISE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $25M · revenue +449%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    4× · 2022–2025 · $6.6M · revenue +47%
  • NY
    New York University
    3× · 2022–2024 · $4.3M · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • DUKE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.6M · revenue +1%
  • UH
    UT HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO
    one grant, 2022 · $938k
  • JH
    John Hopkins University
    one grant, 2021 · $750k
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.

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Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
2
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

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3
New York Hall of Science

Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…

Arts & Culture
4
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
5
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
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Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Ie New York College

(see schedule o)

Education
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University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
10
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
11
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
12
Manhattan University

Manhattan university is an independent catholic instituion of higher learning that embraces qualified men and women of all faiths, cultures, and traditions. the mission of manhattan university is to provide a contemporary, person-centered…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc; the most unlike its peers is Hopper-Belmont Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

206 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. 206 of the 237 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
206/206
Grantees still filing
123/206
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,151,830 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIAPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $11,411,182 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard CollegeUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $7,306,453 · EducationUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INCNew York University: $4,333,334 · Education+49 more: $23,085,491 · Education+49 moreNYC KIDS RISE INC: $25,063,300 · Youth DevelopmentNYC KIDS RISE …+11 more: $1,512,500 · Youth Development+11 moreAmerican Friends of Tel Aviv Univ: $25,000,000 · InternationalAmerican Frien…+3 more: $625,000 · InternationalMGH (MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL): $4,064,316 · OtherMGH (MASSACHUSET…YALE UNIVERSITY: $3,946,620 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2,032,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN K…CUNY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · OtherROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,473,000 · OtherASPHALT GREEN INC: $2,200,000 · OtherASPHALT GREEN IN…+79 more: $14,634,020 · Other+79 moreDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,580,004 · HealthDana-Farb…MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $3,450,000 · HealthMONTEFIOR…MAYO CLINIC: $3,000,000 · HealthMAYO CLIN…ALLIANCE FOR CLINICAL TRIALS IN ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION: $844,250 · HealthThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $800,000 · HealthTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $780,000 · HealthTHE JED FOUNDATION: $600,500 · Health+11 more: $1,445,000 · Health+11 moreJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,925,000 · Human ServicesEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $1,000,000 · Human ServicesMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $525,000 · Human ServicesGOOD SHEPHERD SERVICES: $200,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY: $151,600 · Human Services+6 more: $440,000 · Human ServicesMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $900,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $800,000 · Arts & CultureBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $361,500 · Arts & CultureROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $325,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $275,000 · Arts & CultureTHE JEWISH MUSEUM: $230,000 · Arts & CultureCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $225,000 · Arts & CultureFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $210,000 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC: $175,000 · Arts & CultureTHE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM: $150,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $345,000 · Arts & Culture
Education$96,288,290Youth Development$26,575,800International$25,625,000Other$29,349,956Health$17,499,754Human Services$4,241,600Arts & Culture$4,171,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $50,151,830 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNYC KIDS RISE INC: $25,063,300 over 5y, 24% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $11,411,182 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC: $7,306,453 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $6,580,004 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $4,333,334 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: $3,450,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $3,010,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $3,000,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE ACADEMIES NETWORK INC: $2,300,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetASPHALT GREEN INC: $2,200,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetJOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,925,000 over 4y, 7.4% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY: $1,665,107 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $1,650,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $1,473,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HUNTER COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $1,375,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetEXPANDED SCHOOLS INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetMACAULAY HONORS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $930,746 over 3y, 22% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $900,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBARD COLLEGE: $850,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALLIANCE FOR CLINICAL TRIALS IN ONCOLOGY FOUNDATION: $844,250 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST: $800,000 over 3y, 4.7% of budgetThe Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc: $800,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $795,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MOUNT SINAI HOSPITAL: $780,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $775,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $750,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMOREHOUSE COLLEGE: $666,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPREP FOR PREP: $650,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetTHE JED FOUNDATION: $600,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetPEER HEALTH EXCHANGE INC: $597,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetMOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $525,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget50CAN INC: $500,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC: $500,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $500,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $461,255 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLETS WIN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $450,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $400,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEAST HARLEM TUTORIAL PROGRAM INC: $400,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $400,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC: $380,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC: $372,900 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $361,500 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $350,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $350,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetROUNDABOUT THEATRE COMPANY INC: $325,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR CITY COLLEGE: $320,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budget
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.

The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Hyde and Watson F…Robin Hood FoundationPinkerton FoundationThe New York Communit…Altman FoundationJewish Communal FundThe Blackstone Charit…Booth Ferris Foundati…The Heckscher Foundat…May and Samuel Rudin …Tiger Foundation
The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift FundNY59× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Pinkerton Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Altman Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Blackstone Charitable Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · The Heckscher Foundation for Children · May and Samuel Rudin Family Foundation Inc · Tiger 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 Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
63report 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Gray Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Gray Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 237 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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