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Ray Ellison Jr Charitable Trust Ray Ellison Jr Charitable Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BIG | $15,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $10,000 |
| CENTRAL TEXAS FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| THE CARING PLACE | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
11 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Central Texas Food Bank Inc7× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +8%- MOMEALS ON WHEELS6× · 2018–2023 · $30k · revenue +23%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC5× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue +145%
Funded once
- TBThe Brookwood Comunity In Georgetownone grant, 2020 · $15k
- DCDELL CHILDREN MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2017 · $10k
- AEANSON ENGINE MUSEUMone grant, 2017 · $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.
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.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
Houston food bank's mission is to provide food for better lives. last year we provided access to 136 million nutritious meals in 18 counties in southeast texas through our 1,600 community partners which includes food pantries, soup…
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
The maryland food bank is a nonprofit hunger-relief organization dedicated to feeding people, strengthening communities, and ending hunger for more marylanders.
Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.
To end hunger in communities throughout new york city. (see schedule o)to end hunger in communities throughout new york city. we do this through food rescue and distribution, education, and other practical, innovative solutions.
To close the hunger gap in north texas by working through over 500 feeding partners to provide access to nutritious food and address the root causes of hunger.
The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…
The food depot fosters healthy communities by engaging a network of partners and developing solutions to create a hunger-free new mexico.
Citymeals-on-wheels provides a continuous lifeline of nutritious food and human company to homebound elderly new yorkers, helping them live with dignity in their own familiar homes and communities. 100% of all public donations are used for…
To feed every hungry person today, to seed partnerships that build self- sufficiency for tomorrow, and lead to achieve our vision of permanently ending hunger in new mexico.
Tarrant Area Food Bank's (TAFB) mission is empowering our community to alleviate hunger and improve health. We value and embrace a culture of fairness and inclusion as fundamental to our vision of empowering communities where no one has to…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 Central Texas Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds I AM THAT GIRL ↗
- Who funds UNICORN CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ray Ellison Jr Charitable Trust Ray Ellison Jr Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ray Ellison Jr Charitable Trust Ray Ellison Jr Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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