· Private foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $29k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $327k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $944k
- $250k+10 grants · $10M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AOPA AIR SAFETY FOUNDATION | $2,650,000 |
| EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC | $2,345,060 |
| AEROSPACE CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE | $894,857 |
| COMMERATIVE AIR FORCE | $892,000 |
| CIVIL AIR PATROL FOUNDATION | $825,000 |
| WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES | $800,000 |
| THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION | $800,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY | $300,000 |
| UND AEROSPACE FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| SOUTHEASTERN GUIDE DOGS | $250,000 |
| TEENS IN FLIGHT | $150,000 |
| RENO AIR RACING ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| WILLIAMSBURG AVIATION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $125,000 |
| PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM | $125,000 |
| ABLE FLIGHT INC | $75,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 -8% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 11 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $380k 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
- UAUND Aerospace Foundation4× · 2022–2025 · $8.7M · revenue +39%
- EAEXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2018–2022 · $7.9M · revenue +35%
- EAEAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC3× · 2023–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +38%
Funded once
- UAUND AEROSPACE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $6.0M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ND ALUMNI ASSOCIATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $500k
- WMWEST MICHIGAN AVIATION ACADEMYone grant, 2021 · $250k
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.
Program service accomplishments provide scholarships and patriotic flyovers
Funding scholarship programs at various qualified schools that teach aviation industry practices and aviation career fields, as well as the acquisition, maintenance and display of historical aircrafts to the general public.
We are a group of pilots, mechanics, and volunteers that want to introduce the next generation to aviation. Our mentors will guide teens as they build an airplane and then will teach them how to fly it Through this process we will expose…
Aviation training Scholarships, Based on level of rating and after essay submissions and review with Grant committees,
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lakeland Aero Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Citizens Foster Care Review Board. 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 20 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 99 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 UND Aerospace Foundation ↗
- Who funds EXPERIMENTAL AIRCRAFT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAA AVIATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds AEROSPACE CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMEMORATIVE AIR FORCE ↗
- Who funds THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIVIL AIR PATROL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc ↗
- Who funds COLLIER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO SKIES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Teens-In-Flight Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKELAND AERO CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds Reno Air Racing Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMERS SUPPORT NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FLIGHT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEM FLIGHTS ↗
- Who funds HSU FAMILY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AVIATION HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The LeRoy W Homer Jr Foundation ↗
- Who funds AVIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Colorado Foundation ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMSBURG AVIATION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds KETTLE MORAINE YOUTH AVIATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASPIRING AVIATORS AERO CLUB 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: Si Robin Foundation · Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust · Clay Lacy Foundation · Collier Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 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.
- Jacksonville University — 3% of income from government
- Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc — 0% of income from government
- North Naples Education Center Inc — 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.
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