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The Dee & Rick Ray Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11k
Granted FY2019
2
Grants FY2019
2
Organizations funded FY2019
50%
First-time grantees FY2019
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Median grant, FY2019
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2019
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2019
States reached, FY2019
2
Total assets, FY2019
$7k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 50% of the organizations The Dee & Rick Ray Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19
EducationOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20192$11k50%
FY20185$13k60%
FY20173$4kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.

Education$21kHealth$4kRecreation & Sports$2kPhilanthropy$1kReligion$1k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2019, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
University of Miami$15,00020%
Queens University of Charlotte$5,00010%
Heritage Classic Foundation$1,50010%
Hilton Head Heroes Inc$1,24020%
Kids for Christ of Madison Count$1,0001n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($4k), not named here.

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About The Dee & Rick Ray Foundation Inc

How much does The Dee & Rick Ray Foundation Inc give?
The Dee & Rick Ray Foundation Inc reported 2 grants totaling $11,000 in its FY2019 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2019.
What does The Dee & Rick Ray Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2019, its largest causes are Education (74%), Health (13%), Recreation & Sports (5%).
Who are The Dee & Rick Ray Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2019: University of Miami ($15k), Queens University of Charlotte ($5k), Heritage Classic Foundation ($2k).
Does The Dee & Rick Ray Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Dee & Rick Ray Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is The Dee & Rick Ray Foundation Inc based?
The Dee & Rick Ray Foundation Inc is based in SC.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 7 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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