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Thomas J & Marjorie S Gray Foundation Inc C/O Jon Gray

Its FY2022 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$293k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$163k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 74% of THOMAS J & MARJORIE S GRAY FOUNDATION INC C/O JON GRAY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $263k
$100,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LAKE ERIE COUNCIL - BSA$162,981
SIMON KENTON COUNCIL - BSA$100,000
TECUMSEH COUNCIL - BSA$30,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–18, $74k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%OHIO ALLIANCE OF YMCAS FOUNDATION: $50k → 15%OHIO-WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH LEADERSHIP ASSOC: $24k → 19%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 9 repeat orgs$671k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +119% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
19

Total granted

$1.3M
$671k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+119%
+34%

Still filing today

11%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
Youth DevelopmentPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsCrime & LegalOther

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

  • LE
    LAKE ERIE COUNCIL - BSA
    4× · 2019–2022 · $383k
  • PC
    PROACT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $225k · revenue +119%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    3× · 2019–2021 · $180k

Funded once

  • GS
    GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIOgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $105k · revenue +34%
  • LE
    LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
    one grant, 2018 · $95k · revenue -10%
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS - GREATER CLEVELAND COUNCIL
    one grant, 2017 · $75k

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.

1
Girl Scouts of Western Ohio

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
2
Bay-Lakes Council #635 Boy Scouts of America

To instill in young people; values, develop leadership skills, and ethical character as expressed in the scout oath and law.

Youth Development
3
Boy Scouts of America 96 Central Ga Council

The boy scouts provide a program for community organizations that offers effective character, citizenship and personal fitness training for youth. the organization endeavors to develop american citizens who are physically, mentally and…

4
Boy Scouts of America 624 Gateway Area Council

To prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law.

Youth Development
5
Boy Scouts of America 571 Circle Ten Council

The purpose of circle ten council is to promote and extend scouting in northeast texas and southeast oklahoma. our goal is to provide all youth and adults with programs, training, and awards that build character, teach participatory…

Youth Development
6
Boy Scouts of America 388 Greater Hudson Valley Council

It is the mission of scouting america, greater hudson valley council, inc. to deliver the highest-quality, values-based youth program of character development and leadership training, based upon the precepts embodied in the scout oath and…

7
Indian Waters Council Boy Scouts of America Inc

It is the mission of the boy scouts of america to prepare young people to make ethical choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath law.

Youth Development
8
Boy Scouts of America Council 438 Dan Beard

To develop young adults who are exceptionally prepared to lead, in their own way, to make a positive impact in their personal lives, professions and communities throughout their lifetime.

9
Grand Canyon Council Inc Boy Scouts of America

The mission of scouting america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. (continued on schedule o)programs of scouting america and grand…

10
Girl Scouts of Utah

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence and character who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
11
Girl Scouts of Northern Indiana Michiana Inc

Girl scouting builds girls of courage, confidence, and character, who make the world a better place.

Youth Development
12
Suffolk County Council Boy Scouts of America

The mission is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law.

Youth Development

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ohio-West Virginia Youth Leadership Association and the most unlike its peers is Powered Foods. 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

14 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/14
Grantees still filing
10/14
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LAKE ERIE COUNCIL - BSA — $383,231 · OtherLAKE ERIE COUNCIL - BSAPROACT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS INC — $225,000 · OtherPROACT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS INCIndividual grant recipient — $180,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSIMON KENTON COUNCIL - BSA — $135,000 · OtherSIMON KENTON COUNCIL - BSATECUMSEH COUNCIL - BSA — $118,880 · OtherTECUMSEH COUNCIL - BSABOY SCOUTS - SIMON KENTON COUNCIL — $90,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS - SIMON KENTON COUNCILBOY SCOUTS - GREATER CLEVELAND COUNCIL — $75,350 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA - ERIE SHORES COUNCIL — $50,000 · OtherERIE SHORES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $50,000 · Other+9 more — $157,850 · Other+9 moreGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO — $105,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOUTS …LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $95,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAKE ERIE CO…ALLIANCE FOR GIRLS INC LOUISVILLE GIRLS LEADERSHIP — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMULTIPLYING GOOD INC — $115,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION — $20,000 · PhilanthropyOhio Alliance of YMCA's Foundation — $50,000 · Human ServicesOHIO-WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION — $24,155 · Human ServicesBECAUSE I SAID I WOULD — $45,000 · Public BenefitPEACE LEARNING CENTER INC — $30,000 · Crime & LegalCAMPTOWN INC — $10,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,465,311Youth Development$210,000Philanthropy$135,000Human Services$74,155Public Benefit$45,000Crime & Legal$30,000Recreation & Sports$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROACT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS INC — $225,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetMULTIPLYING GOOD INC — $115,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO — $105,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC — $95,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOhio Alliance of YMCA's Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetERIE SHORES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBECAUSE I SAID I WOULD — $45,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPEACE LEARNING CENTER INC — $30,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetOHIO-WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION — $24,155 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetTHE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCAMPTOWN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTECUMSEH COUNCIL 439 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $3,280 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 PROACT COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIPS INC
  • Who funds MULTIPLYING GOOD INC
  • Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTH EAST OHIO
  • Who funds LAKE ERIE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA INC
  • Who funds Ohio Alliance of YMCA's Foundation
  • Who funds ERIE SHORES COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds BECAUSE I SAID I WOULD
  • Who funds PEACE LEARNING CENTER INC
  • Who funds OHIO-WEST VIRGINIA YOUTH LEADERSHIP ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds THE LAKEWOOD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds ALLIANCE FOR GIRLS INC LOUISVILLE GIRLS LEADERSHIP
  • Who funds CAMPTOWN INC
  • Who funds TECUMSEH COUNCIL 439 BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
  • Who funds POWERED FOODS

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.

Jpmorgan Chase FoundationNY10.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover 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 organization Thomas J & Marjorie S Gray Foundation Inc C/O Jon Gray 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.

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202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your 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
    6report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 28 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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