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Ray Foundation
Its FY2023 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k13 grants · $382k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS INC | $60,000 |
| THE GREELEY DREAM TEAM | $45,000 |
| SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER | $40,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY | $40,000 |
| ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE | $35,357 |
| HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC | $33,000 |
| PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY | $33,000 |
| WELD FOOD BANK | $33,000 |
| FOOD BANK FOR LARIMER COUNTY | $33,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC | $22,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY | $21,480 |
| COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS | $20,700 |
| FINALLY HOME | $15,000 |
| CHILDSAFE COLORADO INC | $10,320 |
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 (FY17–23, $121k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 55% of Ray Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CO; read by stated purpose it is 49% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AFANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE5× · 2019–2023 · $951k · revenue +109%
- LCLARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH7× · 2017–2023 · $345k · revenue +78%
- TGTHE GREELEY DREAM TEAM INC5× · 2019–2023 · $180k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- TWTHE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +124%
Care and Share Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +45%
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.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
Empowering individuals to build stronger families and communities.
Colorado center on law and policy is an antipoverty organization advancing the rights of every coloradan.
Rooted in the values of kindness, dignity and social justice, lfsrm strenghtens communities by providing support, guidance, and resource coordination to individuals and families throughout the rocky mountain region.
To provide safe shelter, support and advocacy for adults and their children, and to provide an end to violence against adults, youth and children through support, advocacy and community organizing.
Faith Family Hospitality's mission is to support families experiencing homelessness to achieve sustainable self-sufficiency in a timely and dignified manner. This interfaith volunteer effort coordinates the work of 30 diverse Fort Collins…
The conflict center equips people with practical skills to navigate, transform and embrace everyday conflict.
A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
Works with farmers and ranchers to address water issues around the state impacting agriculture.
La Plata Youth Services, Inc. supports and advocates for youth facing challenges in school, home and court.
The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…
We partner with youth and their families as they successfully navigate school, college, and career by providing a holistic academic, social, and emotional program from elementary school through college, along with post-secondary…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Northern Colorado and the most unlike its peers is Finally Home Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
19 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.
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 COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL FRIENDS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LARIMER COUNTY PARTNERS DBA PARTNERS MENTORING YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE GREELEY DREAM TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SELF-SUFFICIENCY OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds HOMEWARD ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF WELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SEXUAL ASSAULT VICTIM ADVOCATE CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Food Bank for Larimer County ↗
- Who funds WELD FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CHILDSAFE COLORADO INC ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF LARIMER COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COLORADO YOUTH OUTDOORS CHARITABLE TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE MATTHEWS HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Finally Home Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE WILD ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN COLORADO ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
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: Otter Cares Foundation AKA OTTERCARES FOUNDATION · Colorado Gives Foundation · Community Foundation of Northern Colorado · El Pomar Foundation · Northern Colorado United for Youth · Realities for Children Charities · Don & May Wilkins Charitable Trust · United Way of Larimer County · Anschutz Family Foundation · Weld Community Foundation · Woodward Governor Charitable Trust · Nebraska Community 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 Ray Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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.