Form 990-PF for tax year 2024

Totals

Total revenue

$4,578,679

Total expenses

$6,025,043

Contributions and grants received

— not reported

Contributions, gifts and grants paid

$4,215,500

Fair market value of assets, end of year

$43,049,683

Listed in Part VIII

Compensation is as filed in Part VIII of the Form 990-PF: compensation, contributions to benefit plans, expense account, and hours per week. The total, marked calculated, is our sum of the three dollar columns, with a blank column counted as $0; the form itself has no total.

Grants paid on this return

Grants paid, cash basis (Part I, line 25, column (d))

$4,215,500

As filed, and sometimes filed as 0.

Grants paid, Part XV total (line 3a)

$4,215,500

The foundation's own total of the grants it itemizes.

These are the grants the foundation paid during the year. The “Contributions, gifts and grants paid” total above is the figure on the foundation's books. This return marks the accrual method, under which a grant is recorded when the foundation commits to it rather than when it pays, so the books total need not agree with the cash figures in this section: a grant promised one year and paid in another is counted in different years.

• MZC FOUNDATION (DBA THE RAY)

  $2,000,000

  ATLANTA, GA

  GRAY NOTE GRANT - COMMITTED TO $1,250,000 ANNUALLY FOR FIVE YEARS, FROM 2022 THROUGH 2026

• GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION

  $750,000

  ATLANTA, GA

  GRANT - TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE ENVIRONMENTAL MISSION, ACTIVITIES AND OPERATIONS OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION

• THE BIOMIMICRY INSTITUTE

  $650,000

  MISSOULA, MT

  GRAY NOTE GRANT - $500,000 OF DIRECT SUPPORT & $150,000 FOR PASS THROUGH TO RAY OF HOPE PRIZE WINNERS.

• GEORGIA TECH RESEARCH CORPORATION

  $250,000

  ATLANTA, GA

  DRAWDOWN GEORGIA RESEARCH GRANT

• GROUNDSWELL

  $100,000

  ATLANTA, GA

  DRAWDOWN GEORGIA GRANT - TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE ENVIRONMENTAL MISSION, ACTIVITIES AND OPERATIONS OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION

• PROJECT DRAWDOWN

  $100,000

  SAN FRANCISCO, CA

  CLIMATE GRANT - TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE ENVIRONMENTAL MISSION, ACTIVITIES AND OPERATIONS OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION

• CLIMATE CONSORTIUM OF THE COMMONS

  $50,000

  ATLANTA, GA

  GRANT - TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE ENVIRONMENTAL MISSION, ACTIVITIES AND OPERATIONS OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION

• ENVIRONMENTAL COMMUNITY ACTION

  $50,000

  ATLANTA, GA

  DRAWDOWN GEORGIA GRANT - TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE ENVIRONMENTAL MISSION, ACTIVITIES AND OPERATIONS OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION

• GEORGIA INTERFAITH POWER & LIGHT

  $50,000

  ATLANTA, GA

  DRAWDOWN GEORGIA GRANT - TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE ENVIRONMENTAL MISSION, ACTIVITIES AND OPERATIONS OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION

• GEORGIA WAND EDUCATION FUND

  $46,000

  ATLANTA, GA

  GRANT - TO SUPPORT THE CHARITABLE ENVIRONMENTAL MISSION, ACTIVITIES AND OPERATIONS OF THE RECIPIENT ORGANIZATION

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Provenance

Return type

form_990_pf

Tax year

2024

Filed

6 November 2025

IRS schema version

2024v5.2

Source object

202523119349100432

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