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The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation

$96k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Education$236kHealth$122kArts & Culture$121kSocial Science$25kHuman Services$13kInternational$10kCommunity Improvement$10kPhilanthropy$9k
02FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$81,300
SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
Bend Northwest Non-Profit Corporati$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $8k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$442k · 3 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$442k
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+103%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $236k · revenue +60%
  • SD
    SAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART
    6× · 2017–2023 · $106k · revenue +99%
  • SH
    SCRIPPS HEALTH
    5× · 2017–2021 · $100k · revenue +72%

Funded once

  • HI
    Hudson Institute Incgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +166%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +209%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
5
The National World War Ii Museum Inc

The national wwii museum tells the story of the american experience in the war that changed the world-why it was fought, how it was won, and what it means today-so that all generations will understand the price of freedom and be inspired…

Arts & Culture
6
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston

The museum of fine arts, houston serves as a welcoming and inclusive place for all people, connecting the communities of houston with diverse histories of art spanning 6,000 years and six continents. through our permanent collections,…

Arts & Culture
7
Connect Foundation

Connect is an innovation instigator established to cultivate san diego's life science and tech communities. a trusted partner for more than 30 years, we propel our region's entrepreneurs as they create and scale their companies from…

Education
8
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
9
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

Chartered by a unanimous act of congress, the museum is america's national institution for the documentation, study, interpretation, and education of holocaust history and serves as our country's memorial to the victims of the holocaust.…

Arts & Culture
10
Clyfford Still Museum

Home to the art and legacy of the american painter clyfford still, we invite all to explore the potential of individual creative endeavor.

Arts & Culture
11
Henry E Huntington Library and Art Gallery

The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
12
The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Grand Isle Inc. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 14 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
10/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $236,300 · EducationMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $106,000 · Arts & CultureSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ARTAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE L…THE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSCRIPPS HEALTH — $100,000 · HealthSCRIPPS HEALTH+1 more — $2,000 · HealthHudson Institute Inc — $25,000 · OtherHudson Inst…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO — $20,000 · OtherREGENTS OF …Bend Northwest Non-Profit Corporati — $5,000 · OtherBend Northw…THE SALVATION ARMY - SIERRA DEL MAR DIVISION - WOM — $5,000 · OtherTHE SALVATI…JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $10,000 · InternationalTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $9,193 · PhilanthropyYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $8,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF GRAND ISLE INC — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Education$236,300Arts & Culture$121,000Health$102,000Other$55,000International$10,000Philanthropy$9,193Human Services$8,000Community Improvement$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMURRAY STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $236,300 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSAN DIEGO MUSEUM OF ART — $106,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSCRIPPS HEALTH — $100,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHudson Institute Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $9,193 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY — $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PUTNAM FOUNDATION DBA TIMKEN MUSEUM OF ART — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF GRAND ISLE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHARMON KILLEBREW-DANNY THOMPSON MEMORIAL CANCER FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA9.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 The Gene and Taffin a Ray 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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