· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of LESLIE S & MARCIA C RAY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k31 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPEN DOOR | $10,000 |
| BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER | $10,000 |
| YMCA OF NORTH SHORE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS | $10,000 |
| PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN | $10,000 |
| GIRLS INCORPORATED OF LYNN | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY SERVICE OF HAMILTON-WENHAM | $6,500 |
| TOPSFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HARBORLIGHT HOMES | $5,000 |
| RAW ART WORKS | $5,000 |
| WENHAM MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| SENIOR CARE | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $199k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +94%
PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +39%
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +58%
Funded once
HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +28%
ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +148%- FOFRIENDS OF MEMORIAL PARK IMPROVEMENT PROJECT INCone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.
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Hac's mission is to promote and implement the right of all people on cape cod and the islands to occupy safe and affordable housing. to achieve this goal, hac has concentrated its major programs around rental subsidies, shelter services,…
Committed to providing chronically unemployed adults with a pathway to stable, long-term employment in the food service industry through comprehensive technical & job readiness training with individualized support & employment services.
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The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
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Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 75 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 GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD FRIDAY WALK INC ↗
- Who funds Topsfield Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SENIORCARE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC ↗
- Who funds HARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds TWO GRATEFUL FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE IS SIMPLE INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds GORDON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST ARC INC ↗
- Who funds CABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACORD INC ↗
- Who funds LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
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: 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
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 Leslie S & Marcia C Ray 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.
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Seniorcare Inc — 82% of income from government
- Northeast Arc Inc — 73% of income from government
- Girls Incorporated of Boston and Lynn — 28% of income from government
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- United Way of Massachusetts Bay Inc — 23% of income from government
- Topsfield Historical Society — 16% of income from government
- Acord Inc — 10% of income from government
- Root Capital Inc — 9% of income from government
- Essex County Greenbelt Association — 8% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
- Perkins School for the Blind — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Ymca of the North Shore Inc — 6% of income from government
- Cape Ann Plein Air Inc — 4% of income from government
- Montserrat College of Art Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
- North Shore Community Development Coalit — 0% of income from government
- Childrens Center for Communication Inc Beverly School for the Deaf — 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.