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Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
39
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2025 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $80k
$2,500
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN$10,000
GIRLS INCORPORATED OF LYNN$10,000
YMCA OF NORTH SHORE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
OPEN DOOR$10,000
BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER$10,000
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
SALVATION ARMY$7,500
COMMUNITY SERVICE OF HAMILTON-WENHAM$6,500
TOPSFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY$5,000
HARBORLIGHT HOMES$5,000
WENHAM MUSEUM$5,000
RAW ART WORKS$5,000
SENIOR CARE$5,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%FISH OF SANCAP: $1k → 11%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%FISH OF SANCAP: $1k → 11%PATHWAYS FOR CHILDREN: $10k → 10%FISH OF SANCAP: $1k → 11%FISH OF SANCAP: $1k → 11%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $7k → 10%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $5k → 10%ACORD FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 10%THE COMMUNITY HOUSE: $3k → 10%ACORD FOOD PANTRY: $3k → 10%ACORD FOOD PANTRY: $1k → 10%BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 10%BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 10%BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 10%YMCA OF NORTH SHORE: $10k → 10%YMCA OF NORTH SHORE: $10k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER: $10k → 10%SENIOR CARE: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 10%SENIOR CARE: $5k → 10%SENIOR CARE INC: $5k → 10%SENIOR CARE: $5k → 10%SENIOR CARE: $5k → 10%SENIOR CARE INC: $5k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 10%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$904k · 53 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +30% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

53
16

Total granted

$904k
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+30%

Still filing today

62%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureEnvironmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +39%
  • GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN
    6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +94%
  • BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I
    5× · 2020–2025 · $50k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • HEALING ABUSE WORKING FOR CHANGE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +28%
  • ESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +148%
  • S
    SEARI
    one grant, 2020 · $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

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.

1
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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2
Boston Harbor Now Inc

Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…

Environment
3
Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance Inc

Maha breaks down barriers facing first-time and first-generation home buyers and owners through education, counseling, advocacy, and grassroots organizing.

Housing & Shelter
4
Massachusetts Education & Career Opportunities Inc

Massachusetts education and career opportunities, inc. (massedco, inc.) is a statewide network of service sites that provides education and career advising to over 12,000 low-income, first generation individuals each year. massedco…

Education
5
Housing Assistance Corporation

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,…

Housing & Shelter
6
New England Center for Arts & Technology Inc

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.

Education
7
Massachusetts Housing Investment Corporation

Mhic's mission is to be an innovative private financier of afforable housing and community development throughout new england, providing financing that would not otherwise be available, and extending the impact of that financing to ensure…

Housing & Shelter
8
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
9
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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10
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc

Our costs consist of acquiring, sorting and distributing food to 617 member agencies, transportation and logistics, and community outreach to 69 direct distribution sites such as gbfb mobile markets, and federal distributions for low…

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11
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
12
Lifestream Inc

Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 75 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/46
Grantees still filing
30/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $53,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSALVATION ARMY: $45,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYGOOD FRIDAY WALK INC: $32,500 · OtherGOOD FRIDAY WALK INCWENHAM MUSEUM: $30,000 · OtherWENHAM MUSEUMIndividual grant recipient: $30,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHAWC: $27,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY SERVICE OF HAMILTON-WENHAM: $26,000 · OtherTHE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC: $25,000 · OtherRAW ART WORKS INC: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · Other+43 more: $226,070 · Other+43 morePATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC: $60,000 · Human ServicesPATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENI…BEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesBEVERLY CHILDREN'S LEA…SENIORCARE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesSENIORCARE INCAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $25,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red …YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF THE NORTH SHOR…THE COMMUNITY HOUSE INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY HOUSE IN…+2 more: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentTopsfield Historical Society: $30,000 · Arts & CultureCABOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $7,120 · Arts & CultureBEVERLY HOLIDAY PARADE INC ALAN L TEMKIN: $6,000 · Arts & CultureThe Owls Head Transportation Museum: $5,000 · Arts & CulturePORTSMOUTH MUSIC & ARTS CENTER INC: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureBEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT: $30,000 · Housing & ShelterHARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterCHANGE IS SIMPLE INC: $12,500 · EnvironmentESSEX COUNTY GREENBELT ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · EnvironmentLAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION: $6,000 · EnvironmentMANCHESTER ESSEX CONSERVATION TRUST: $5,000 · Environment
Other$540,570Human Services$199,000Youth Development$60,000Arts & Culture$51,120Community Improvement$50,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Environment$33,500

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

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
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 PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF BOSTON AND LYNN ↗
  • 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 NORTH SHORE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT COALIT ↗
  • Who funds SENIORCARE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR CAPE ANN FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
  • Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds HARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
  • Who funds YMCA OF THE NORTH SHORE 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 LAKES ENVIRONMENTAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Montserrat College Of Art 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.

Salem Five Charitable…Essex County Communit…Institution for Savin…Eastern Bank Foundati…People's United Commu…Cummings Foundation G…Boston Foundation IncVan Otterloo Family F…United Way Of Massach…The Amg Charitable Fo…The Peter and Elizabe…Ge Aerospace Foundati…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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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The unnamed billions
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The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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