Washington · Private foundation
Ray Solem Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $90k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 10
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 63% of the organizations Ray Solem Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 64% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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 | 7 | $90k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $70k | 63% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $65k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $165k | 75% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $108k | 80% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $99k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $55k | 83% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $55k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intercambio de Comunidades | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| United We Dream Network Inc | $48,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Restoration Immigration Legal Aid | $45,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Centreville Immigration Forum | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Brave House Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Beyond 90 Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Crossing Point Arts Inc | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Life-Span | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Haven Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Intercambio de Comunidades | $100,000 | 1 | 5% |
| United We Dream Network Inc | $48,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Restoration Immigration Legal Aid | $45,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Community Asylum Seekers Project Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Centreville Immigration Forum | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Brave House Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Beyond 90 Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Crossing Point Arts Inc | $20,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Life-Span | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Haven Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Worcester Youth Center Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Justice For All Immigrants | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Latina Republic | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Soccer Without Borders | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Gateway Alliance Against Human Trafficking | $10,000 | 1 | 12% |
| Margie's Haven House Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Georgia Asylum & Immigration Network Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Casa De Paz | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Immigrant Hope - Atlanta Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Niswa Association Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Josephine's Place Inc | $9,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Roca Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Language Institute of Massachusetts Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Generatehope Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($260k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ray Solem Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
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How this is measured
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About Ray Solem Foundation
- How much does Ray Solem Foundation give?
- Ray Solem Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $90,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ray Solem Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Crime & Legal (40%), Human Services (24%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are Ray Solem Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Intercambio de Comunidades ($100k), United We Dream Network Inc ($48k), Restoration Immigration Legal Aid ($45k).
- Does Ray Solem Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ray Solem Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ray Solem Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Ray Solem Foundation based?
- Ray Solem Foundation is based in WA.
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