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Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc

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.

$158k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
39
Grants FY2025
39
Organizations funded FY2024
8%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
38 to 39
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$3.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 8% of the organizations Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionEnvironmentAnimalsInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving39$158k15%
FY202439$151k8%
FY202339$144k15%
FY202239$172k31%
FY202139$165k26%
FY202038$195kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$273kArts & Culture$111kEducation$88kYouth Development$85kFood & Nutrition$72kHousing & Shelter$42kHealth$40kEnvironment$38kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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All grantees of Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Pathways for Childreninc$60,00060%
Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn$60,00060%
Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I$50,00050%
Beverly Children's Learning Center Inc$40,00040%
Good Friday Walk Inc$32,500538%
Topsfield Historical Society$30,000516%
North Shore Community Development Coalit$30,00040%
Seniorcare Inc$30,00060%
The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc$25,00040%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$25,00040%
Raw Art Works Inc$25,00050%
Harborlight Community Partners Inc$20,00050%
YMCA of the North Shore Inc$20,00020%
Two Grateful Friends Inc$16,50029%
Beverly Historical Society$15,00061%
The Community House Inc$14,00021%
Change Is Simple Inc$12,50051%
Healing Abuse Working for Change Inc$10,00010%
Essex County Greenbelt Association$10,00010%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$8,50050%
Gordon College$8,00060%
Northeast Arc Inc$7,50030%
Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc$7,12020%
Lakes Environmental Association$6,00060%
Montserrat College Of Art Inc$6,00060%
Acord Inc$6,00031%
Beverly Holiday Parade Inc Alan L Temkin$6,000641%
Manchester Essex Conservation Trust$5,00050%
United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc$5,00010%
Friends of Memorial Park Improvement Project Inc$5,0001n/a
Root Ns Inc$5,00020%
The Peter Frates Family Foundation Inc$5,0001n/a
The Owls Head Transportation Museum$5,00050%
Cape Ann Plein Air Inc$5,00052%
Perkins School for the Blind$4,00040%
Fish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc$4,00040%
Ding Darling Wildlife Society Inc$3,00030%
Childrens Center for Communication Inc Beverly School for the Deaf$3,00010%
The Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District Education Fund Inc$2,50011%
Root Capital Inc$2,50010%
Employers Against Domestic Violence$2,0002n/a
Portsmouth Music & Arts Center Inc$2,00020%
Beverly Kiwanis Foundation Inc$1,5001n/a
Science From Scientists Inc$1,50010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$1,00010%
The Real Program Inc$1,0001n/a
Amare Cantare$1,0002n/a
Friends of Patton Homestead Inc$1,00014%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($339k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 42 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPathways for Childreninc: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGirls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn: $60,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetBeverly Bootstraps Community Services I: $50,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBeverly Children's Learning Center Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetGood Friday Walk Inc: $32,500 over 5y, 38% of budgetTopsfield Historical Society: $30,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetNorth Shore Community Development Coalit: $30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSeniorcare Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRaw Art Works Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHarborlight Community Partners Inc: $20,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA of the North Shore Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTwo Grateful Friends Inc: $16,500 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetBeverly Historical Society: $15,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetThe Community House Inc: $14,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetChange Is Simple Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetHealing Abuse Working for Change Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEssex County Greenbelt Association: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGood Shepherd Food Bank: $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGordon College: $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNortheast Arc Inc: $7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCabot Performing Arts Center Inc: $7,120 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLakes Environmental Association: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMontserrat College Of Art Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAcord Inc: $6,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBeverly Holiday Parade Inc Alan L Temkin: $6,000 over 6y, 41% of budgetManchester Essex Conservation Trust: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoot Ns Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Owls Head Transportation Museum: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCape Ann Plein Air Inc: $5,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPerkins School for the Blind: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFish of Sanibel-Captiva Inc: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDing Darling Wildlife Society Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Center for Communication Inc Beverly School for the Deaf: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hamilton-Wenham Regional School District Education Fund Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRoot Capital Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPortsmouth Music & Arts Center Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetScience From Scientists Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of Patton Homestead Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 42.

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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.

Salem Five Charitable Foundation IncMA43.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · Van Otterloo Family Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Amg Charitable Foundation · The Peter and Elizabeth C Tower Foundation · 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.

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About Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc

How much does Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc give?
Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc reported 39 grants totaling $158,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (28%), Arts & Culture (11%), Education (9%).
Who are Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Pathways for Childreninc ($60k), Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn ($60k), Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I ($50k).
Does Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 8% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc 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 Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc, Essex County Community Foundation Inc, Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc.
Where is Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc based?
Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc is based in MA.

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 75 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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