· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| RENO AIR RACING ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| TEENS IN FLIGHT | $150,000 |
| PEARL HARBOR AVIATION MUSEUM | $125,000 |
| WILLIAMSBURG AVIATION SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM | $125,000 |
| ABLE FLIGHT INC | $75,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +37% since the first grant, against -8% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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,
How this is measured
47 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. 47 of the 99 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 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 THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds AVIATION EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- 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 ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ray Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ray Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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