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· Private foundation
THE RAY FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$19k
Granted FY2024
6
Grants
1
Communities
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0165% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Public Benefit$21kHealth$19kHuman Services$15kCrime & Legal$14kCommunity Improvement$8kEducation$7kPhilanthropy$5kRecreation & Sports$3kOther$50k
02FY2024 · 6 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$353k
Total assets
Largest grants
- KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE$5,000
- RFG INTEGRATIVE FITNESS$3,000
- TKO PARKINSONS$3,000
- HEART OF CHANCE TOY CHEST$3,000
- SANTAS LITTLE HELPERS$2,500
- LRPFD$2,500
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 9%. 79% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 89% 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, 78% of the giving stays in KY; read by stated purpose it is 5% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
THE RAY FAMILY FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient addressRecipient 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.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$86k · 9 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
18
Total granted
$86k
$50k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+14%
+181%
Still filing today
78%
56%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEducationPublic BenefitOther
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 ALLIANCE5× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +105%
- LMLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +172%
- THTHE HEALING PLACE3× · 2018–2020 · $9k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SASUMMIT ACADEMY OF GREATER LOUISVILLE INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +12%
- FCFAMILY CONNECTIONS INCone grant, 2020 · $4k
- BHBARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +181%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Helping Kids to Recover Inc
Health
2
Hope Loves Company Inc
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…
Human Services
3
House of Possibilities Inc
House of possibilities, inc. (hope) is a human services provider for children and adults with disabilities.
Human Services
4
Nextstep Orlando Inc
Nextstep orlando empowers individuals with spinal cord injuries, stroke, brain injuries, and other neurological conditions to activiely pursue recovery. through advanced activity-based therapy and proven, research-driven interventions, we…
Health
5
A Kid Again Inc
A kid again provides hope, happiness, and healing to families raising kids with life threatening conditions.
Human Services
6
Special Kids Inc
Provide therapeutic rehabilitation and professional nursing services to children with special needs.
Health
7
Hope Opportunity Purpose
Support youth by refocusing families on options through hope opportunity purpose empowerment
Human Services
8
Hope Centers United
Bringing hope to the whole family by loving the whole child.
Human Services
9
Team Luke Hope for Minds
We exist to enrich the lives of children with a brain injury and give hope to their families through support and education.
Health
10
Joyride Center Inc
Joyride center provides therapeutic horsemanship activities and therapies to improve the physical and cognitive conditions of people with disabilities ages 3 to adult.
Animals
11
The Therapy Place Inc
To provide traditional and innovative therapies and recreational opportunities for special needs children in an environment that is family-friendly, to include resources and education for the parents/caregivers.
Youth Development
12
Dynamic Strides Therapy Inc
Dynamic Strides Therapy is a non-profit outpatient pediatric therapy facility that offers occupational, physical and speech therapies to children with special needs. Patients receive unique treatment that combines traditional occupational,…
Health
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Opportunity Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Adaptive Training Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
18 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$58,000Public Benefit$21,000Health$19,000Human Services$14,500Crime & Legal$14,000Community Improvement$8,000Education$7,000
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 ↗
- Who funds LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEALING PLACE ↗
- Who funds INHERITANCE OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds NICK RODMAN LEGACY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TKO PARKINSONS ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ACADEMY OF GREATER LOUISVILLE INC ↗
- Who funds SANTAS LITTLE HELPERS ↗
- Who funds BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY COMMUNITY CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND STRIDE INC ↗
- Who funds RFG INTEGRATIVE FITNESS ↗
- Who funds HOPE HEALS ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ODYSSEYINC ↗
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.
The Community Foundation OfKY21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: NICK RODMAN LEGACY FOUNDATION INC.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 833742541 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on NICK RODMAN LEGACY FOUNDATION INC, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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