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The Ray H Marr 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $700k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| TRINITY VALLEY CC FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| COLLIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| PANOLA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| TYLER ISD FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| ANGELINA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| KILGORE COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| PARIS JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SCOTTISH RITE FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RETINA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| HOPE FARM INC | $25,000 |
| BOYS SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 83% 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.
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 +62% since the first grant, against +50% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TJTYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION4× · 2021–2024 · $391k · revenue +26%
- TWThe Winston School7× · 2017–2023 · $275k · revenue +11%
- TITYLER IND SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $175k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
- S5SMU-DESIGNATION 51156one grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
To ensure that the student body experiences balanced intellectual, psychological, social and spiritual development, aimed at enabling them to become active productive members of society where they live and work.
School's mission is to help establish basic skills through teaching methods that enhance a child's joy in learning, ability to learn, and interest in learning while fostering the child's self-confidence.
TWCA is an independent, Christ-centered college preparatory school that integrates learning with biblical faith and challenges our students to reach their highest potential - intellectually, creatively, physically, and socially - for the…
The mission of the south texas college foundation is to garner resources that assist south texas college in acheving educational excellence, servicing the diverse needs of the college through partnerships and fundraising from various…
Making education accessible for students through philanthropic support, aligned with Austin Community College (ACC) strategic priorities.
Valor's mission is to educate the whole person in authentic communities for a full human life. Through our K-12 tuition-free classical charter schools and the Valor Institute, we build communities dedicated to wisdom, virtue, and…
To complement the state of texas' support of the colleges by providing financial support for new and ongoing projects and activities in the areas of research, education and community service.
Texas christian university is an institution of higher education which includes nine major academic units: liberal arts, science and engineering, business, education, fine arts, communication, honors, nursing and health sciences, and the…
The mission of the texas higher education foundation is to increase participation and success in higher education for all texans. the foundation is a support organization for the texas higher education coordinating board. it exists to…
To educate students with the transforming truth of christ, inspiring academic excellence, godly character, and integrity in life pursuits.
The HISD Foundation is dedicated to mobilizing the local community to support innovative priorities in HISD to improve outcomes for all students in the district. Our mission is to fund projects and programs of merit that fall outside of…
Dallas college foundation enhances the level of achievement and excellence of dallas college by providing scholarships, eliminating barriers that prevent students from attending and graduating, and supporting innovation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Farm Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wings of a Butterfly. 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 33 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 76 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 TYLER JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Winston School ↗
- Who funds TYLER IND SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ELM ISD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AZLEWAY INC ↗
- Who funds The Dallas Opera ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds PANOLA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 571 CIRCLE TEN COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds TEXAS SCOTTISH RITE HOSPITAL FOR CRIPPLED CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds TEXARKANA COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST TEXAS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MIKEROWEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE KILGORE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Angelina College Foundation ↗
- Who funds BUCKNER 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: Communities Foundation of Texas Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Rees-Jones Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · The Perot Foundation · East Texas Communities Foundation · The Moody Foundation · The Ninnie L Baird Foundation · Community Foundation of North Texas (Tax · Texas Higher Education Foundation · Theodore and Beulah Beasley Foundation Inc · Ken W Davis Foundation
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 H Marr Foundation 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.
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