· Private foundation
Ray Solem Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Mabel Center | $10,000 |
| Brave House | $10,000 |
| Beyond 90 | $10,000 |
| GA Immigration Asylum Network | $5,000 |
| Crossing Point Arts | $5,000 |
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 (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 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.
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
How this is measured
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%
- ALArizona Legal Women and Youth Servione grant, 2022 · $10k
- LLIFE-SPANgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +46%
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.
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.
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 44 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 INTERCAMBIO DE COMUNIDADES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ASYLUM SEEKERS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTREVILLE IMMIGRATION FORUM ↗
- Who funds BRAVE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND 90 INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE-SPAN ↗
- Who funds The Haven Project Inc ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER YOUTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Justice For All Immigrants ↗
- Who funds SOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY ALLIANCE AGAINST HUMAN TRAFFICKING ↗
- Who funds MARGIE'S HAVEN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ASYLUM & IMMIGRATION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds Casa De Paz ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRANT HOPE - ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds NISWA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Josephine's Place 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ray Solem Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ray Solem Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Roca Inc: 78% of income from government
- Worcester Youth Center Inc: 64% of income from government
How this is measured
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