· Private foundation
The Gray 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MACDONELL CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $5,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $3,000 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $3,000 |
| ST MATTHEWS EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITA | $3,000 |
| THE HAVEN | $3,000 |
| STFRANCIS UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| VANDERBILT CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| SKY HIGH - HOUSTON | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CHAPEL HILL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $3,000 |
| TEXAS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| BUNK HOUSE INN INC | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY24–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +61% since the first grant, against +19% for those funded once.
52 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTexas Children's Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $34k · revenue +105%
- THThe Haven Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +267%
- DCDULAC COMMUNITY CENTER9× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- FUFIRST UNITED METH CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $28k
- LPLA PETIT THEATRE DE TERREBONNEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- RMRESURRECTION METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
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.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
The purpose of world hope international, inc. (whi) includes providing assistance to economically disadvantaged people through long-term social transformation projects, including anti-trafficking protection, clean water, economic…
Mission: this organization is part of the methodist hospital, doing business as houston methodist hospital, whose mission is: to provide high quality, cost-effective health care that delivers the best value to the people we serve in a…
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…
Christus health foundation of southeast texas serves the philanthropic needs of christus health southeast texas by soliciting and distributing contributions in support of christus health southeast texas.
Hmm health provides quality healthcare to all its neighbors with love, compassion, and respect.
To create a healthier future for children and women throughout our global community by leading in patient care, education and research.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
We, trinity health-michigan and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health-michigan is a member of trinity health.
We, saint joseph's health system and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. honoring the heritage and advancing the ministry of the sisters of…
How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 68 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds The Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds DULAC COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE EXTREME INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CASA OF TERREBONNE INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds START Corporation ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds Nicholls State University Foundation ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Greater New Orleans Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Bayou Community Foundation · Catholic Foundation of South Louisiana · Tbs Spark Foundation · Danos Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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