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The Rachael Ray Foundation at a glance

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The Rachael Ray Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
88
Grants FY2024still arriving
29
States reached
$2.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Animals$70MFood & Nutrition$16MPublic Safety & Disaster$4.3MHealth$1.1MYouth Development$720kEducation$590kEmployment$575kHuman Services$571kOther$0
02FY2024 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $34k
  • $10k–50k29 grants · $706k
  • $50k–250k39 grants · $4.2M
  • $250k+15 grants · $8.6M
$75,000
Median grant
29
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA$2,100,000
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY$1,300,000
ASPCA$1,300,000
ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY$400,000
PAWS CHICAGO$375,000
OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY$350,000
CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE$350,000
DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE$325,000
FEEDING AMERICA$320,000
NRAEF$300,000
FOODCORPS INC$300,000
EMANCIPET$300,000
NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION$300,000
SHARE OUR STRENGTH$300,000
WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY$300,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 73% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OPERATION WARM INC: $10k → 10%BAKING MEMORIES 4 KIDS INC: $10k → 14%OPERATION BBQ RELIEF: $10k → 8%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $175k → 8%BERGEN FAMILY CENTER INC: $10k → 7%MERCY CHEFS: $5k → 9%US FUND FOR THE GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS: $25k → 10%P MICHAEL BOONE FOUNDATION: $10k → 22%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $75k → 20%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $150k → 8%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $75k → 20%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $150k → 8%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $75k → 20%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $75k → 20%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $75k → 20%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $50k → 20%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $25k → 20%EMMAS TORCH LTD: $25k → 20%ATLANTA MISSION: $10k → 13%SIMA STUDIOS: $10k → 14%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $225k → 17%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $150k → 17%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $150k → 17%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $100k → 17%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $100k → 17%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $100k → 17%URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE: $100k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$93M · 109 repeat orgs$2.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

109 repeat relationships: 80 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

109
91

Total granted

$93M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+23%

Still filing today

92%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $235k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $17M · revenue +18%
  • BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $11M · revenue +31%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9.7M · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $375k · revenue +28%
  • RO
    RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC
    one grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -29%
  • ND
    NO DOGS LEFT BEHIND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $65k · revenue -34%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Humane Society of Southern Arizona

To compassionately serve pets and the people who love them.

Animals
2
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
3
Progressive Animal Welfare Society aka Paws

A champion for animals since 1967, PAWS is a nationally recognized leader - rehabilitating injured and orphaned wildlife, sheltering and adopting homeless cats and dogs, and educating people to make a better world for animals and people.

Animals
4
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
5
All About Animals Rescue

All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.

Animals
6
The Animal Haven Inc

The animal haven's misson is to provide a temporary, safe, caring and humane refuge for homeless dogs and cats and place these animals in quality adoptive homes.

Animals
7
Animal Rescue of the Rockies

Animal Care and Adoption - ARR's mission is to save the lives of homeless and abandoned dogs and cats. Our goal is reaching a no-kill society in the United States.

Animals
8
Animal Rescue Force Inc

Established in 1974, the organization's mission is to find responsible homes for dogs and cats and to encourage all dog and cat owners to spay and neuter their pets.

Animals
9
Animal Samaritans

At Animal Samaritans we champion compassion and respect for all living creatures, with a primary focus on dogs, cats, and the people who love them. We view pets not merely as animals, but as members of our families. As their guardians and…

Animals
10
Partners for Animal Welfare Society

Animal shelter for the protection and care of abused and neglected animals.

Animals
11
Philadelphia Animal Welfare Society

Dedicated to saving philadelphias homeless and at-risk pets through rescue, adoption, and provision of veterinary care and other pet owner support services.

Animals
12
Animal Adoption Foundation

Aaf is a no kill shelter for domestic animals that have been abused and abandoned. aaf provides and coordinates adoption, spay/nueter, and educational programs, which aim to reduce and control pet population. aaf maintains temporary…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Humane Animal Rescue; the most unlike its peers is Ronald E Franklin Foundation 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

177 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 177 of the 208 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.

11
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
43
Early backer (in before they grew)
174/177
Grantees still filing
123/177
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $17,421,233 · AnimalsNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INCBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $11,235,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETYTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $9,660,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS+92 more: $30,698,000 · Animals+92 moreFeeding America: $3,270,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding Ame…FOODCORPS INC: $2,450,000 · Food & NutritionFOODCORPS I…The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $2,340,000 · Food & NutritionThe Nationa…CITY HARVEST INC: $750,000 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVES…MOVE FOR HUNGER INC: $375,000 · Food & Nutrition+8 more: $320,000 · Food & NutritionSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,552,500 · OtherSHARE OUR …HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC: $1,040,000 · OtherHUNGER FRE…UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $494,803 · OtherUKRAINIAN …POTTER LEAGUE: $294,000 · OtherCHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherCHEF ANN F…THE LEARY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $720,000 · OtherTHE LEARY …BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $650,000 · OtherBOYS & GIR…+54 more: $2,492,205 · Other+54 moreNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $2,025,000 · HealthWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $750,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $150,000 · Health+9 more: $230,000 · HealthURBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $925,000 · Human ServicesFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $475,000 · Human ServicesEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $475,000 · Human ServicesFARMLINK PROJECT: $225,000 · Human Services+9 more: $100,000 · Human ServicesWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500,000 · International+2 more: $45,000 · InternationalWHOLESOME WAVE INC: $850,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $375,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · Environment
Animals$69,014,233Food & Nutrition$9,505,000Other$8,743,508Health$3,155,000Human Services$2,200,000International$1,545,000Environment$1,235,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC: $17,421,233 over 8y, 6.4% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $11,235,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $9,660,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFeeding America: $3,270,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,552,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetFOODCORPS INC: $2,450,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetThe National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation: $2,340,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $2,025,000 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetAnimal Humane Society: $1,825,000 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetOREGON HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,800,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE: $1,725,000 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetWISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,625,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetDENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE: $1,525,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,500,000 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetAUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC: $1,405,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetEMANCIPET INC: $1,350,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetIdaho Humane Society Inc: $1,225,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetCHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY: $1,215,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetHUNGER FREE AMERICA INC: $1,040,000 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetBAD RAP: $1,000,000 over 8y, 52% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $925,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetURBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC: $925,000 over 7y, 22% of budgetWHOLESOME WAVE INC: $850,000 over 7y, 9.3% of budgetTHE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER: $755,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC: $750,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC: $750,000 over 8y, 11% of budgetPROJECT CHIMPS: $750,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetTHE LEARY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION: $720,000 over 7y, 33% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY: $700,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAtlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc: $675,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA: $650,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $640,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetMIGHTY MUTTS INC: $625,000 over 7y, 27% of budgetKENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE: $585,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCOLUMBUS HUMANE: $575,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetAnimal Friends Inc: $550,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetMAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC: $525,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetCHEF ANN FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetUKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA: $494,803 over 3y, 12% of budgetFREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC: $475,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetEMMA'S TORCH LTD: $475,000 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetLost Our Home Pet Foundation: $435,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $425,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPAWS CHICAGO: $425,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNO DOG LEFT BEHIND INC: $385,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetMICHIGAN HUMANE SOCIETY: $375,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $375,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVE FOR HUNGER INC: $375,000 over 5y, 1.4% 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.

  • Who funds NORTH SHORE ANIMAL LEAGUE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds FOODCORPS INC ↗
  • Who funds The National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Animal Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds OREGON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE CLEVELAND ANIMAL PROTECTIVE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds WISCONSIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DENVER DUMB FRIENDS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds AUSTIN PETS ALIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds EMANCIPET INC ↗
  • Who funds Idaho Humane Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HUNGER FREE AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds BAD RAP ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
  • Who funds URBAN SCHOOL FOOD ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
  • Who funds WELLNESS IN THE SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROJECT CHIMPS ↗
  • Who funds THE LEARY FIREFIGHTERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Atlanta Humane Society & Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Inc ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
  • Who funds MIGHTY MUTTS INC ↗
  • Who funds KENTUCKY HUMANE SOCIETY - ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HUMANE ↗
  • Who funds Animal Friends Inc ↗
  • Who funds MAYOR'S ALLIANCE FOR NYC'S ANIMALS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHEF ANN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UKRAINIAN CONGRESS COMMITTEE OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS INC ↗

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.

The American Society …The Duffield Family F…Petco LovePetsmart Charities IncGreater Good CharitiesBest Friends Animal S…Humane World for Anim…The Yum-O Organizatio…Banfield FoundationPedigree FoundationBISSELL Pet FoundationThe Grey Muzzle Organ…
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsNY47.7× affinity25 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals · The Duffield Family Foundation Dba Maddie's Fund · Petco Love · Petsmart Charities Inc · Greater Good Charities · Best Friends Animal Society · Humane World for Animals Inc · The Yum-O Organization Inc · Banfield Foundation · Pedigree Foundation · BISSELL Pet Foundation · The Grey Muzzle Organization

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 Rachael Ray Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rachael Ray Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Bergen Family Center: 25% of income from government
  • Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
  • HomeWorks Trenton: 6% of income from government
  • Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pet Alliance of Greater Orlando Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Rachael Ray Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rachael Ray 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 208 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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