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Wray Family Foundation at a glance

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Wray Family Foundation

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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Health$475kHuman Services$182kFood & Nutrition$130kYouth Development$126kPublic Safety & Disaster$125kEducation$109kArts & Culture$50kCrime & Legal$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $345k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $805k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$70k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA FOUNDATION$100,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WESTERN NEVADA$100,000
RENOWN HEALTH FOUNDATION$100,000
EAST FORK FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT$75,000
SUICIDE PREVENTION NETWORK$75,000
GREENHOUSE PROJECT$55,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
CARSON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOOD CLOSET$50,000
DOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S SEARCH AND RESCUE$50,000
CARSON TAHOE HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
CANCER FOR COLLEGE$50,000
CARSON TAHOE HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
KUNR - PUBLIC RADIO$25,000
FOOD BANK OF NORTHERN NEVADA$25,000
CARSON VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION$25,000
02The need
03

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 (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $25k → 11%ADVOCATES TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $25k → 13%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

35%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$465k · 6 repeat orgs$869k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$465k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+105%

Still filing today

67%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 26% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $862k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • RH
    Renown Health Foundation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $172k · revenue 0%
  • CT
    CARSON TAHOE HEALTH FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $150k
  • SP
    Suicide Prevention Network
    2× · 2024–2025 · $100k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • SF
    SEACREST FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue +130%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue -5%
  • BH
    Between Horses and Humansgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +105%
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
Healthy Nevada
Health
2
Nevada Agricultural Foundation
Food & Nutrition
3
The Nevada Bighorns Foundation
Education
4
Nevada Wild Horses

Wild horse protection, preservation, rescue and care work.

Animals
5
Nevada Peer Support Network Inc
Health
6
Nevada Gold Mines Heritage Fund
Philanthropy
7
Nevada State Parks Foundation

The nevada state parks foundation is dedicated to enhancing and preserving the natural beauty, cultural heritage and recreational opportunities within the nevada division of state parks. the foundation is committed to supporting the…

Environment
8
Friends of Washoe
Animals
9
Community Services of Nevada

CSNV is engaged in comprehensive community development projects that promote neighborhood revitalization and economic development, community education and civic action, housing, development; cultural awareness, equity and

Housing & Shelter
10
Nevada Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violen

NCEDSV provides advocacy, education and support of the front-line organizations that help those impacted by domestic and sexual assault and work towards the elimination of domestic and sexual violence against all persons.

Human Services
11
Southern Nevada Senior Law Program

To provide quality legal assistance and advocacy services for residents 60 years and older facing challenges of aging.

Human Services
12
Nevada Health Centers Inc

NVHC provides health services throughout the State of Nevada. Health services include OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Primary medical, Behavioral Health and dental care services. NVHC operates a mobile mammography clinic, two mobile…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada; the most unlike its peers is Between Horses and Humans. 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

29 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. 29 of the 38 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
12/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Renown Health Foundation: $172,000 · OtherRenown Health FoundationCARSON TAHOE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $150,000 · OtherCARSON TAHOE HEALTH FOUNDATIONBoys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada: $100,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Clubs of Western NevadaEAST FORK FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICT: $75,000 · OtherEAST FORK FIRE PROTECTION DISTRICTDOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S SEARCH AND RESCUE: $50,000 · OtherDOUGLAS COUNTY SHERIFF'S SEARCH AND RESCUEBIG BROTHERS AND SISTERS OF NORTHERN NEVADA: $25,000 · OtherKUNR - PUBLIC RADIO: $25,000 · OtherRON WOOD FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 · OtherRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Other+13 more: $61,750 · Other+13 moreSuicide Prevention Network: $100,000 · HealthSuicide Prevention…Carson Valley Health Foundation: $50,000 · HealthCarson Valley Heal…CANCER FOR COLLEGE: $50,000 · HealthCANCER FOR COLLEGENorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services: $15,000 · HealthNorthern Nevada HI…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…NORTHERN NEVADA DREAM CENTER: $25,000 · Human ServicesNORTHERN N…ADVOCATES TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $25,000 · Human ServicesADVOCATES …THE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF…University of Arizona Foundation: $100,000 · EducationUniversit…MINDEN ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $7,500 · EducationMINDEN RO…THE GREENHOUSE PROJECT: $55,000 · EnvironmentCARSON VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $27,500 · EnvironmentCarson Valley Community Food Closet Inc: $50,000 · Food & NutritionFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $25,000 · Food & NutritionNEVADA HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 · AnimalsDouglas Animal Welfare Group: $5,000 · Animals
Other$708,750Health$215,000Human Services$125,000Education$107,500Environment$82,500Food & Nutrition$75,000Animals$30,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRenown Health Foundation: $172,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Arizona Foundation: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSuicide Prevention Network: $100,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCarson Valley Community Food Closet Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARSON VALLEY TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $27,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRON WOOD FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetADVOCATES TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRENO PHILHARMONIC ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF SAN DIEGO: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Nevada HIV Outpatient Program Education and Services: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOULA CO-OP OF NEVADA: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMINDEN ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetSEACREST FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDouglas Animal Welfare Group: $5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF DANGBERG HOME RANCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBetween Horses and Humans: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF GENOA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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.

Community Foundation …The E L Cord Foundati…Robert Z Hawkins Foun…NV Energy Charitable …Timken-Sturgis Founda…John Ben Snow Memoria…Greater Nevada Credit…Baker Hughes Foundati…The Dean Seeman Found…Estelle J Kelsey Foun…Thelma B & Thomas P H…Peek Family Charitabl…
Community Foundation of Northern NevadaNV28× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Northern Nevada · The E L Cord Foundation · Robert Z Hawkins Foundation · NV Energy Charitable Foundation · Timken-Sturgis Foundation · John Ben Snow Memorial Tr Uw #839158 · Greater Nevada Credit Union · Baker Hughes Foundation · The Dean Seeman Foundation · Estelle J Kelsey Foundation · Thelma B & Thomas P Hart Foundation · Peek Family Charitable Foundation

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 Wray Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Wray Family Foundation. 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
    9report 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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Wray Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Wray Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 38 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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