· Private foundation
Ray-Griffin Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
- $250k+1 grant · $346k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR ADVISED FUND | $346,374 |
| THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST | $115,000 |
| CVCC EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your 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 +73% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $346k 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
- TCTHE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST8× · 2017–2024 · $199k · revenue +73%
- NFNative Fish Society Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +257%
- GLGREATER LYNCHBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- PBPEAKLAND BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $11k
- LHLYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +155%
- LDLYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $2k · 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.
Potomac conservancy safeguards the land and waters of the potomac river and its tributaries and connects people to this national treasure.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
Promoting for the benefit of the general public, the preservation, protection and enjoyment of our natural resources, principally in the lower james, york, rappahannock and chowan rivers and surrounding watersheds.
Preserve in perpetuity the natural habitats, rural landscapes, and open spaces of the great peninsula of washington's puget sound.
The mission of the lake champlain land trust is to save the scenic beauty, natural communities, and recreational amenities of lake champlain by permanently preserving significant islands, shoreline areas, and natural communities in the…
Our mission is conserving West Michigans ecologically critical land. We protect land by creating public nature preserves, providing support to communities and local governments in creating natural areas, and helping private landowners…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Glen foerd stewards an eclectic riverfront estate for the enjoyment and educational benefit of the community. drawing from the estate's architecture, art, material culture, and history-as well as its gardens and waterways-glen foerd…
To permanently protect and improve natural environments in Mid-Michigan by leading and inspiring actions that conserve vital habitats and waterways for the benefit of our entire community.
The Coast Fork Willamette Watershed Council is a local nonprofit organization that strives to enhance and restore habitat for fish and wildlife our community and for future generations. Our Board of Directors consists of seven members with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wild Steelhead Coalition. 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. 19 of the 33 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 THE CORPORATION FOR THOMAS JEFFERSON'S POPLAR FOREST ↗
- Who funds Native Fish Society Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTRA HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GREATER LYNCHBURG HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
- Who funds YELLOWSTONE FOREVER ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER LYNCHBURG COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREE CLINIC OF CENTRAL VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds CHESAPEAKE BAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds LYNCHBURG DAILY BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds WILD STEELHEAD COALITION ↗
- Who funds DESCHUTES RIVER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE GEORGE WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER LYNCHBURG ↗
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: Greater Lynchburg Community Foundation · Valentine Family Foundation · The Al Stroobants Foundation · Old Dominion Box Co Foundation Inc · The Harry D Forsyth Foundation · Carrington Family Foundation · The Imperial Charitable Trust · Easley Char Irr Tua 5019004715 · Centra Health Inc · Foster Foundation · Schewel Charitable Foundation · Liberty University Inc
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-Griffin 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Native Fish Society Inc — 27% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 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.