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Ray Sutton Mcgehee Foundation

Jacksonville, FL · EIN 59-6143565. Reported 123 grants totalling $289,030 to 60 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,500median grant
$289,030granted, 2021-2024
60organizations funded
74%of grantees funded again the next year
$24,156assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Ray Sutton Mcgehee Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $1,500. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $3,000; the smallest was $100 and the largest $12,975. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
48 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
57 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Canine Companions for IndOrlando, FL$32,975332023
Westside ChapelJacksonville, FL$32,880442024
Uf FoundationGainsesville, FL$20,500332024
Ducks UnlimitedMemphis, TN$17,050442024
Woman's Bd Wolfson ChildrenJacksonville, FL$13,950332024
The Bolles SchoolJacksonville, FL$12,000442024
Hubbard HouseJacksonville, FL$10,500332024
The StorehouseJacksonville, FL$9,000442024
Dreams Come TrueJacksonville, FL$8,350332023
Safelight IncHendersonville, NC$7,680442024
Young LifeJacksonville, FL$7,000222022
Ken Anderson AllianceCincinnati, OH$6,500222022
First Coast Women's ServicesJacksonville, FL$6,250112024
City Rescue MissionJacksonville, FL$6,000222022
Hendricks Ave Bap ChurchJacksonville, FL$6,000222022
Operation New HopeJacksonville, FL$5,430222022
Alzheimer's AssociationJacksonville, FL$5,000112022
Blue Ridge Humane SocietyHendersonville, NC$5,000442024
Tim Tebow FoundationJacksonville, FL$5,000112024
United Way AshevilleAsheville, NC$5,000112024
US Constitution Scholarship FndtnFernandina Beach, FL$5,000222024
Flat Rock Park FoundationFlat Rock, NC$4,750442024
Iam - Interfaith Assistance MinistrHendersonville, NC$4,500222024
Interfaith Assistance MinistryHendersonville, NC$4,500222022
Blue Ridge Honor FlightHendersonville, NC$4,000222023
St Barnabas FamilyNorthfield, OH$4,000332024
Parkinsons FoundationMiami, FL$3,850112021
Barnabas Center IncFernandina Beach, FL$3,500112022
Sulzbacher CenterJacksonville, FL$3,000112022
Florida Action CommitteeBoynton Beach, FL$2,650442024
Wolfson Children's HospitalJacksonville, FL$2,090222024
Bullington GardensHendersonville, NC$1,750442024
North Carolina ArboretumAsheville, NC$1,750442024
Patterson ElementaryFleming Island, FL$1,650332024
Coaches HonorJacksonville Beach, FL$1,500332023
Valley CampNorth Bend, WA$1,500332024
Ronald Mcdonald HouseJacksonville, FL$1,430112021
San Jose Church of ChristJacksonville, FL$1,320222024
Episcopal School JacksonvilleJacksonville, FL$1,100332024
Abcc Turtle FoundationAtlantic Beach, FL$1,025112023
Epilepsy FloridaJacksonville, FL$1,000222022
First Coast No More Homeless PetsJacksonville, FL$1,000112022
First Tee of North FloridaSt Augustine, FL$1,000112023
Murray Hill Baptist Child Care CentJacksonville, FL$1,000222024
Tom Coughlin Jay FundJacksonville Beach, FL$1,000112022
Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$950112024
Scouting AmericaIrving, TX$650112024
N Fl School of Special EdJacksonville, FL$600112022
American Parkinson Disease AssocStaten Island, NY$500112021
Community Fdntn for Ne FlJacksonville, FL$500112021
Friends of the Lake Lure FloweringLake Lure, NC$500112023
Hunt of a LifetimeHarborcreek, PA$500112021
Jala FoundationJacksonville, FL$500112024
Kentucky Tornado Relief FundFrankfort, KY$500112021
St Mark's Episcopal ChurchJacksonville, FL$500112022
Veterans Healing FarmHendersonville, NC$500112022
John Stockton ElementaryJacksonville, FL$400112024
Nscda FlJacksonville, FL$250112024
Seamark RanchGreen Cove Springs, FL$150112022
Friends of StocktonJacksonville, FL$100112022

33 of 60 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 74%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 65 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Human Services
9 grants
Education
8 grants
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
8 grants
Recreation & Sports
5 grants
Animal Welfare
5 grants
Housing & Shelter
5 grants
Environment
4 grants
Employment
4 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202128$69,220$1,850
202238$93,140$1,750
202327$61,120$1,500
202430$65,550$875

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 75% of this one's giving went to organizations in Florida. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Florida
$217K
North Carolina
$40K
Tennessee
$17K
Ohio
$10K
Washington
$2K
New York
$1K
Texas
$650
Pennsylvania
$500

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,500. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Florida.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Ray Sutton Mcgehee Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 590 Oak Street, Jacksonville, FL, 32204. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 59-6143565 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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