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Hg Ray Sr Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Hg Ray Sr Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$19k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$21kArts & Culture$17kReligion$12kPhilanthropy$8kInternational$5kAnimals$4kHuman Services$2kHealth$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$158k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$9,500
COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH$5,500
PEGGY CROSBY CENTER$1,000
THE LITERACY & LEARNING CENTER$1,000
HIGHLANDS CASHIERS HEALTH FOUNDATIO$1,000
HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND PROJ$1,000
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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%FL VETERANS HALL OF FAME SOCIETY: $2k → 19%WILLIAM A MATTHEWS FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%COMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH: $6k → 12%CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $3k → 18%SAMARITANS PURSE: $5k → 21%MARIETTA HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 8%NORTH GA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 12%PROVISION BRIDGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 13%TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $3k → 11%NC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%THE LITERARY & LEARNING CENTER: $5k → 12%CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 18%MARIETTA HIGH SCHOOL THEATER: $500 → 8%MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY: $3k → 12%POPE HIGH SCHOOL: $500 → 8%HIGHLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $3k → 12%THE BASCOM ARTS CENTER: $3k → 12%MOUNTAIN THEATRE COMPANY: $2k → 12%HIGHLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 12%THE LITERACY AND LEARNING PROJECT: $2k → 12%HIGHLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $2k → 12%THE LITERACY AND LEARNING PROJECT: $1k → 12%THE LITERACY & LEARNING CENTER: $1k → 12%THE BASCOM ARTS CENTER: $1k → 12%PEGGY CROSBY CENTER: $1k → 12%PEGGY CROSBY CENTER: $1k → 12%HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY PLAYGROUND PROJ: $1k → 12%HIGHLANDS CASHIERS HEALTH FOUNDATIO: $1k → 12%HUDSON LIBRARY: $500 → 12%HUDSON LIBRARY: $500 → 12%HUDSON LIBRARY: $500 → 12%HUDSON LIBRARY: $500 → 12%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.
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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$38k · 8 repeat orgs$33k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
11

Total granted

$38k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+50%

Still filing today

38%
18%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthReligionAnimalsOther
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

  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +83%
  • HC
    HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $5k · revenue +15%
  • CH
    CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY
    2× · 2021–2023 · $4k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LITERARY & LEARNING CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSE
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • PB
    PROVISION BRIDGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
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
04the grantee network

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 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HIGHLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: $6,500 · OtherHIGHLANDS UNITED METHODIST CHURCHCOMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH INC: $5,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY BIBLE CHURCH INCTHE LITERARY & LEARNING CENTER: $5,000 · OtherTHE LITERARY & LEARNING CENTERPROVISION BRIDGE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherPROVISION BRIDGE FOUNDATIONTHE BASCOM ARTS CENTER: $3,500 · OtherTHE BASCOM ARTS CENTERTHE LITERACY AND LEARNING PROJECT: $3,000 · OtherTHE LITERACY AND LEARNING PROJECTFL VETERANS HALL OF FAME SOCIETY: $2,000 · OtherPEGGY CROSBY CENTER: $2,000 · OtherHUDSON LIBRARY: $2,000 · OtherNORTH GA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Other+6 more: $5,070 · Other+6 moreSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNE…Literacy Council of Highlands Inc: $1,000 · EducationLiteracy Council of …HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 · ReligionCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,950 · AnimalsHighlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc: $1,000 · HealthWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$41,570Education$13,000Arts & Culture$5,000Religion$5,000Animals$3,950Health$1,000Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHLANDS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY: $3,950 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HIGHLANDS COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds CASHIERS HIGHLANDS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Literacy Council of Highlands Inc ↗
  • Who funds Highlands Cashiers Health Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗

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.

Brighton Foundation T…The Community Foundat…Natl Christian Charit…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley TrusteeNC13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brighton Foundation Trust Robert D Markley Trustee · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Hg Ray Sr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hg Ray Sr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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.

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 23 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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