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The Pray Family Foundation

The mission of THE PRAY FAMILY FOUNDATION is to fund research to help eradicate leukemia and lymphona, neuroblastoma and pancreatic cancer by donating to various charities.

$149k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$70k
Largest
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Health$231kReligion$10kArts & Culture$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 4 grants below total $145,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $148,599 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,599 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$127k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE JIMMY FUND$70,000
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CTR$35,000
LEUKEMIA & LYMPOMA SOCIETY$30,000
SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER$10,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 35% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%LEUKEMIA & LYMPOMA SOCIETY: $30k → 7%BETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH: $15k → 10%SOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP: $29k → 11%MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL CANCER CTR: $35k → 16%PATHWAYS 4 INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 7%SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $10k → 14%THE JIMMY FUND: $70k → 7%THE JIMMY FUND: $52k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field
04the grantee network

7 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
6/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $122,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute IncMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $35,000 · HealthMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATEDBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $30,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INCSOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC: $29,000 · HealthSOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INCBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC: $15,000 · HealthBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INCPATHWAYS 4 INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 · ReligionTHE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Health$231,000Religion$10,000Arts & Culture$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $122,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHCOAST HOSPITALS GROUP INC: $29,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETH ISRAEL LAHEY HEALTH INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATHWAYS 4 INDEPENDENCE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetTHE SANDRA BORNSTEIN HOLOCAUST EDUCATION CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Fidelity Investments …
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift FundMA6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pray Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pray Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Southcoast Hospitals Group Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Pray Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Pray Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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