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Ray Solem Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Restoration Immigration Legal Ai | $25,000 |
| Brave House | $10,000 |
| Mabel Center | $10,000 |
| Beyond 90 | $10,000 |
| GA Immigration Asylum Network | $5,000 |
| Crossing Point Arts | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
13 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC4× · 2020–2023 · $48k · revenue -30%- RIRESTORATION IMMIGRATION LEGAL AID3× · 2023–2025 · $45k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2024–2025 · $35k
Funded once
- IDINTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADESone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -7%
- MHMARGIE'S HAVEN HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +116%
- GAGEORGIA ASYLUM & IMMIGRATION NETWORK INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +77%
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.
VIDA mainly represents immigrant survivors of violent crimes particularly domestic violence sexual assault abuse and trafficking in persons modern-day slavery forced labor.
Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…
IMPORTA Santa Barbara was founded in 2011 as an organization dedicated to providing services for Santa Barbara County's large population of low-income immigrants. In 2012, the organization decided to focus on providing immigration legal…
Southern California Immigration Project is a public interest nonprofit organization dedicated to providing pro bono legal services to survivors of human and civil rights violations.
Our Mission is to Empower Multicultural Communities to THRIVE.
AIS's mission is to provide immigration legal services and social services to aid survivors in accessing the rights to justice, dignity, and restoration.
Ayuda's mission is to advocate for low-income immigrants through direct legal, social and language services, training and outreach in washington, d.c., maryland, and virginia. we envision a community where all immigrants succeed and thrive…
Detention Watch Network seeks to end the cruel system of immigration detention via programs of grassroots organizing, strategic communications, and collective advocacy.
Provide high-quality legal services in a compassionate, incarnational, and culturally-appropriate way and empower churches to serve their sojourner neighbors well through collaborative partnerships.
Provide low bono & pro bono legal immigration services.
We empower people to achieve their educational and career goals through personal, institutional and policy transformation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brave House Inc and the most unlike its peers is Worcester Youth Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 44 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 INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND 90 INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM ↗
- Who funds MARGIE'S HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ASYLUM & IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Justice For All Immigrants ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds Casa De Paz ↗
- Who funds NISWA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE-SPAN ↗
- Who funds The Haven Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT HOPE - ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds Josephine's Place 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: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Solem 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.
- Roca Inc — 78% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc — 64% 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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