· Private foundation
The Cloud L Cray and Sara J Cray Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 61% of THE CLOUD L CRAY AND SARA J CRAY FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $190k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY HOPE OF ATCHISON | $100,000 |
| ATCHISON COMMUNITY ED FOUNDATION | $62,500 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $52,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| MISSION CREEK CAMP RETREAT CENTER | $35,000 |
| ATCHISON AMELIA EARHART FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| MAUR HILL-MOUNT ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ATCHISON UNITED WAY BOARD | $15,000 |
| THEATRE ATCHISON | $10,000 |
| ATCHISON FAMILY YMCA | $10,000 |
| ATCHISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HOPE FAMILY THERAPY | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| BOY'S GIRL'S CLUB | $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 (FY17–21, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
42 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
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
- AAATCHISON AMELIA EARHART FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue ×14 · 97% of their budget
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY3× · 2017–2019 · $1.0M · revenue +50%- TATHEATRE ATCHISON INC9× · 2017–2025 · $400k · revenue +185%
Funded once
- RFROBBINS FAMILY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $416k
- LMLAIDACKER M & KAREN L SEABERG FAMILone grant, 2022 · $410k
- KAKEN AND CATHY SCROGGS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $361k
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.
Atchison community health clinic exists to promote wellness by providing quality healthcare to all.
To maintain real estate for the economic development of atchison county, kansas. to provide resources and assistance for continued economic development in atchison county, kansas.
To focus on the quality of life, attraction, growth, and retention of jobs and businesses in atchison county.
Provide funds for the education of at-risk students in the atchison, kansas area
To identify our community's greatest needs and then initiate sustainable programs and interventions to improve the health outcomes, quality of life, and economic vitality for the atchison kansas community.
To educate the community and its visitors about local history by collecting, preserving and interpreting materials reflecting the heritage of wichita and sedgwick county
Aveson is committed to helping all of our students grow as scholars and future leaders. teachers, called advisors, collaborate with students to identify the choices that are best for them as citizens and scholars.
Dedicated to the discovery, preservation, and dissemination of knowledge which will esstablish and illustrate the history of kittson county.
Amberwell health provides compassionate care with clinical excellence.
Preserve and maintain memorial building
Recording, preserving and displaying the history and heritage of fort atkinson.
We are dedicated to providing exceptional healthcare - centered around you.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lewis and Clark Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 25. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
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 54 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 ATCHISON AMELIA EARHART FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER KANSAS CITY ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THEATRE ATCHISON INC ↗
- Who funds ATCHISON UNITED WAY BOARD ↗
- Who funds TIMBER CREEK HOUSE OF PRAYER INC ↗
- Who funds MISSION CREEK CAMP & RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF ATCHISON INC ↗
- Who funds ATCHISON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOPE FAMILY THERAPY INC ↗
- Who funds TONGUE RIVER VALLEY COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ATCHISON CHILD CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE FULLER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Atchison Art Association ↗
- Who funds CASE ALUMNI ASSOCIATION 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: Courtney S Turner Charitable Trust · Cloud L Cray Foundation · Laidacker M & Karen L Seaberg Seaberg Family Foundation · Evah C Cray Residuary Charitable Trust Sawmill Trust Company Trustee · Adair-Exchange Bank Foundation · Greater Manhattan Community Foundation · Guy I Bromley Residuary Trust · Muchnic Foundation · Greater Kansas City Community Foundation · Pratt Family Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 The Cloud L Cray and Sara J Cray Family 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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