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The Ray Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$16k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$61kHuman Services$20kCivil Rights$15kEducation$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kCommunity Improvement$8kYouth Development$7kRecreation & Sports$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$261k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TKO PARKINSONS$5,000
29TH AND 9TH FOUNDATION$3,000
TRAVEL OF HOPE$3,000
LRPFD$3,000
SUMMIT ACADEMY$2,000
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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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ADAPTIVE TRAINING FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%HOPE HEALS: $3k → 13%YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $4k → 19%FAMILY CONNECTIONS INC: $4k → 15%SANTAS LITTLE HELPERS: $3k → 15%SANTAS LITTLE HELPERS: $2k → 15%TRAVEL OF HOPE: $3k → 15%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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 99% of The Ray Family Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 80% of the giving stays in KY; by stated purpose, 0%.

The Ray Family Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$103k · 10 repeat orgs$55k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against -2% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
18

Total granted

$103k
$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
-2%

Still filing today

80%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEducationPublic BenefitOther
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

  • KC
    KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $21k · revenue +157%
  • TP
    TKO Parkinsons Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $12k · revenue +5%
  • LM
    LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2018–2020 · $10k · revenue +172%

Funded once

  • BH
    BARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +36%
  • FC
    FAMILY CONNECTION INC DBA HOPE HILL YOUTH SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue -58%
  • YO
    YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +158%
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
Therapy Center Inc Dba Challenge Center

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…

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2
Cancer Family Care Inc

The mission of Cancer Family Care is to strengthen the well-being and alleviate the suffering of children, adults and families coping with cancer.

Health
3
Next Step Kansas City Inc

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…

Health
4
Hope Abounds Inc

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…

Human Services
5
Healing Through Hope Inc

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.…

Health
6
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
7
Hope Inc

To provide mainstream mobility and recreational opportunities for physically and mentally challenged children and adults.

Unclassified
8
Family Hope House Inc

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.

Health
9
Freedom House Ministries

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…

Education
10
Renewed Hope Foundation Inc

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.

Health
11
The Still Place Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Hope Mental Health Foundation

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Opportunity Center Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

22 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. 22 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LRPFD: $14,500 · OtherLRPFDTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $9,000 · OtherTHE HEALING PLACE INCROOS WISH INC: $6,000 · OtherROOS WISH INCBARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC: $4,000 · OtherBARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER IN…REBEKAH'S ANGELS: $3,000 · OtherHEART OF CHANCE TOY CHEST: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,000 · OtherPARKINSON SUPPORT CENTER OF KENTUCKY: $2,000 · OtherHEIFER PROJECT: $2,000 · OtherSECOND STRIDE INC: $3,000 · OtherSHEPHERD CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Other29TH AND 9TH FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · OtherRfg Integrative Fitness Inc: $3,000 · Other+2 more: $2,000 · OtherTKO Parkinsons Inc: $12,000 · HealthTKO Parkinsons In…INHERITANCE OF HOPE INC: $9,000 · HealthINHERITANCE OF HO…Family Community Clinic Inc: $3,000 · HealthFamily Community …SANTAS LITTLE HELPERS INCORPORATED: $4,500 · Human ServicesSANTAS LITTLE H…FAMILY CONNECTION INC DBA HOPE HILL YOUTH SERVICES: $4,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTI…YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesYOUTH OPPORTUNI…Adaptive Training Foundation: $3,000 · Human ServicesAdaptive Traini…Hope Heals Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesHope Heals IncTravel to Hope Inc: $3,000 · Human ServicesTravel to Hope …KIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $21,000 · Public BenefitKIDS CANCER ALL…LOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Crime & LegalLOUISVILLE…YOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $4,000 · Crime & LegalYOUTH OPPO…SUMMIT ACADEMY OF GREATER LOUISVILLE INC: $8,500 · EducationODYSSEY INC: $2,000 · EducationNick Rodman Legacy Foundation Inc: $8,000 · Community Improvement
Other$58,500Health$24,000Human Services$21,500Public Benefit$21,000Crime & Legal$14,000Education$10,500Community Improvement$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIDS CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $21,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTKO Parkinsons Inc: $12,000 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetLOUISVILLE METRO POLICE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HEALING PLACE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINHERITANCE OF HOPE INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSUMMIT ACADEMY OF GREATER LOUISVILLE INC: $8,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNick Rodman Legacy Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSANTAS LITTLE HELPERS INCORPORATED: $4,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetBARREN HEIGHTS CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTION INC DBA HOPE HILL YOUTH SERVICES: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYOUTH OPPORTUNITY CENTER INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND STRIDE INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRfg Integrative Fitness Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetAdaptive Training Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHope Heals Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTravel to Hope Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPARKINSON SUPPORT CENTER OF KENTUCKY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetODYSSEY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Community Foundat…Kosair Charities Comm…The Whas Crusade for …Honorable Order of Ke…Cralle Foundation IncSnowy Owl Foundation …The Community Foundat…Mightycause Charitabl…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Baird Foundation IncEnterprise Holdings F…The Pfizer Foundation…
The Community Foundation of Louisville IncKY21× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    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.

    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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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