How much does Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation give?

Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $79,263 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (16%), Animals (13%), Human Services (13%).

Who are Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The University of Florida Foundation Inc ($33k), Ducks Unlimited Inc ($26k), The Bolles School ($25k).

Does Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc, Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc, Pga Tour Inc.

Where is Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation based?

Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation is based in FL.

Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation

Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$79k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$13k

Largest

01What it funds

0188% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$98kAnimals$82kHuman Services$80kEducation$72kHousing & Shelter$54kReligion$32kPhilanthropy$29kEnvironment$26kOther$0

02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k28 grants · $57k
$10k–50k2 grants · $23k

$2,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UF FOUNDATION	$12,500
Individual grant recipient	$10,050
HUBBARD HOUSE	$6,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION	$5,000
ARIZE TOGETHER INC	$5,000
AMERICAN LEGION	$4,000
THE STOREHOUSE	$3,500
DUCKS UNLIMITED	$3,443
TOWN OF MILLS RIVER	$3,000
WOLFSON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL	$3,000
THE BOLLES SCHOOL	$3,000
YOUNG LIFE	$2,750
SAFELIGHT INC	$2,500
IAM - INTERFAITH ASSISTANCE MINISTR	$2,500
CANINES FOR SERVICE	$2,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $37k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$563k · 52 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against +29% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$563k

$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

+29%

Still filing today

50%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationPhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterAnimalsOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

DU
Ducks Unlimited Inc
8× · 2018–2025 · $26k · revenue +97%
TB
THE BOLLES SCHOOL
9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +95%
DC
DREAMS COME TRUE OF JACKSONVILLE INC
7× · 2017–2023 · $22k · revenue +74%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2024 · $5k
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +102%
BC
BARNABAS CENTER INC
one grant, 2022 · $4k · revenue +24%

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.

04Its field

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.

Disability Rights Florida Inc

Disability rights florida advocates, educates, investigates, and litigates to protect and advance the rights, dignity, equal opportunities, self-determination and choices for all people with disabilities.

Civil Rights

The Hospice of the Florida Suncoast Inc

Suncoast hospice's mission is to be the center to improve life for those touched by advanced illness, death, dying, grief, bereavement and other end-of-life issues.

Human Services

Florida Animal Protection Foundation

Animals

Easter Seals Florida Inc

See schedule o for a complete description of the organization's mission

Health

Florida Council Against Sexual Violence Inc

Sexual violence shatters lives, wounds communities and perpetuates injustice. the florida council against sexual violence leads, informs and inspires the people of florida to create safe and just communities.

Health

Gulf Coast Jewish Family and Community Services Inc

Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)

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The Hospice Foundation of the Florida Suncoast Inc

The mission of suncoast hospice foundation is to advance the understanding, participation, and support of the mission and programs of suncoast hospice and its affilated organizations, honoring the community's sacred trust through sound…

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Family Promise of Southeast Florida Inc

The Organization's mission is to empower families in making their transition from homelessness to sustainable independence.

Religion

Bioflorida Inc

From concept to consumer, bioflorida is the premier source for supporting the florida life sciences industry. we provide comprehensive resources and advocacy, while fostering a thriving community that leads in innovation and groundbreaking…

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Center for Independent Living of North Florida Inc

Ability 1st, the center for independent living of north florida, is a community-based, organization that provides services to persons with varying disabilities. our mission is to empower people with disabilities to live independently and…

Human Services

Florida Community Health Centers Inc

Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.

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Lighthouse for the Blind of the Palm Beaches Inc

Lighthouse for the blind of the palm beaches, inc's mission is to assist persons with visual impairments to develop their capabilities to the fullest and to utilize them in the pursuits of life which are the right and privilege of all.

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How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rising Leaders of North Florida Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Baird Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

48 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. 48 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/48

Grantees still filing

36/48

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$386,154Education$62,750Human Services$57,950Housing & Shelter$38,020Philanthropy$28,170Environment$25,843Youth Development$19,545

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.

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.

The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida IncFL34.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Jacksonville Jaguars Foundation Inc · Pga Tour Inc · Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida Foundation · Csx Foundation Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Crowley Cares Foundation · Community Foundation of Henderson County Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Lucy Gooding Charitable Foundation Trust · Stellar Foundation · The Gate Foundation Inc

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ray Sutton McGehee Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

18get no government money at all

8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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