Florida · 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.
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 40
- Grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,650,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 18
- Total assets, FY2025
- $67M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Ray Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 39 | $11M | 28% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $18M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $10M | 48% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $8.9M | 24% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $11M | 47% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $11M | 52% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $13M | 38% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $2.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| UND Aerospace Foundation | $8,683,100 | 4 | 21% |
| Experimental Aircraft Association Inc | $7,910,000 | 5 | 12% |
| Eaa Aviation Foundation Inc | $6,700,060 | 3 | 21% |
| Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum | $5,030,000 | 8 | 23% |
| Aerospace Center for Excellence Inc | $4,319,317 | 7 | 49% |
| The Commemorative Air Force | $3,656,391 | 4 | 10% |
| The Immokalee Foundation Inc | $3,150,000 | 7 | 15% |
| Civil Air Patrol Foundation Inc | $2,131,355 | 4 | 83% |
| Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum | $2,025,000 | 5 | 16% |
| Southeastern Guide Dogs Inc | $1,750,000 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 52 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($34M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ray Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 13 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 44 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Ray Foundation Inc
- How much does Ray Foundation Inc give?
- Ray Foundation Inc reported 40 grants totaling $11,356,545 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ray Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (29%), Arts & Culture (20%), Science & Tech (19%).
- Who are Ray Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: UND Aerospace Foundation ($8.7M), Experimental Aircraft Association Inc ($7.9M), Eaa Aviation Foundation Inc ($6.7M).
- Does Ray Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ray Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ray Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Si Robin Foundation, Emil Buehler Perpetual Trust, Clay Lacy Foundation.
- Where is Ray Foundation Inc based?
- Ray Foundation Inc is based in FL.
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