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The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation

$96k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
33%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2023
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2023
$81,300
Organizations funded a year
2 to 6
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
3

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 33% of the organizations The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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
FY20233$96k33%
FY20225$110k60%
FY20214$63k25%
FY20203$57k0%
FY20192$45k0%
FY20184$67k25%
FY20176$90kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

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

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Murray State University Foundation Inc$236,30071%
San Diego Museum of Art$106,00060%
Scripps Health$100,00050%
Hudson Institute Inc$25,00010%
Regents of the University of California at San Diego$20,0001n/a
American Friends of the Louvre Inc$10,00010%
YMCA of San Diego County$8,00010%
The Putnam Foundation Dba Timken Museum of Art$5,00010%
Friends of Grand Isle Inc$5,00014%
Harmon Killebrew-Danny Thompson Memorial Cancer Foundation Inc$2,00010%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($10k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetAmerican Friends of the Louvre Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

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

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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.

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About The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation

How much does The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation give?
The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $96,300 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 6 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Education (43%), Health (22%), Arts & Culture (22%).
Who are The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Murray State University Foundation Inc ($236k), San Diego Museum of Art ($106k), Scripps Health ($100k).
Does The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation based?
The Gene and Taffin a Ray Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 14 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 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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