· Private foundation
The Ray Family Foundation Inc
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TKO PARKINSONS | $5,000 |
| 29TH AND 9TH FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| TRAVEL OF HOPE | $3,000 |
| LRPFD | $3,000 |
| SUMMIT ACADEMY | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 99% of The Ray Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- KCKIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +157%
- TPTKO Parkinsons Inc3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +5%
- LMLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +172%
Funded once
- YOYOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +158%
- FCFAMILY CONNECTION INC DBA HOPE HILL YOUTH SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -58%
- YOYOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2019 · $4k · revenue -20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The challenge center is committed to providing skilled physical therapy, specialized fitness and welness programs to rehabilitate, raise the level of independence, and improve the quality of life for children, adults, and seniors with…
The mission of Cancer Family Care is to strengthen the well-being and alleviate the suffering of children, adults and families coping with cancer.
Nextstep kansas city is an affordable, state-of-the-art, community-based neurological recovery and fitness center. by offering standardized activity-based therapy programs and interventions, based on research; our centers provide the best…
The mission of Hope Abounds is to provide compassionate, no-cost support, resources, and education to cancer patients, their families, and caregivers. By empowering individuals through advocacy, collaboration, and tailored assistance, they…
Healing Through Hope Inc is a support group of people learning to 'live life on life's terms' after experiencing the trauma of loss. We are unique, in that our group is for those who have experienced the Trauma of the death of a loved one.…
Hope Loves Company is the only nonprofit in the U.S. dedicated to providing both emotional and educational support to children and young adults who have or had a loved one battling ALS (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis) or Lou Gehrig's…
To provide mainstream mobility and recreational opportunities for physically and mentally challenged children and adults.
Family Hope House empowers families through therapy, education, and advocacy. As Oklahoma's sole adoption competent mental health agency, we support foster and adoptive children for lasting stability and success.
House of Hope Kansas City is unique, because we work with teens and their parents to find solutions and ultimately, restoration of healthy family relationships. We serve families in crisis with our program for residents to experience the…
We are committed to helping parents optimize the physical, intellectual, and physiological development of their special needs children through innovative therapies, personal care, support, and training.
Offering rest, renewal, and recreation to families experiencing serious life-altering illnesses incorporating nature, art, spirituality and south appalachian experiences to enhance resiliency, empowerment, self-determination and hope.
HOPE Mental Health Foundation seeks to remove barriers to therapy so individuals can progress emotionally and break cycles of destruction for themselves, their families and their communities. We connect donors with individuals that need…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Opportunity Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Louisville Metro Police 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.
Your grantees are a median of 16 years old; the field is 18. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 30 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds TKO Parkinsons Inc ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds INHERITANCE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OF GREATER LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds Nick Rodman Legacy Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SANTAS LITTLE HELPERS INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CONNECTION INC DBA HOPE HILL YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rfg Integrative Fitness Inc ↗
- Who funds Adaptive Training Foundation ↗
- Who funds SECOND STRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds 29TH AND 9TH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Family Community Clinic Inc ↗
- Who funds Travel to Hope Inc ↗
- Who funds Hope Heals Inc ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEY INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON SUPPORT CENTER OF KENTUCKY ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Louisville Inc · Kosair Charities Committee Inc · The Whas Crusade for Children Inc · Honorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc · Cralle Foundation Inc · Snowy Owl Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Louisville Depository Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 Ray Family Foundation Inc 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.
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.