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Archer 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.

$904k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$332k
Largest
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212025.

Philanthropy$332kHealth$235kHuman Services$197kReligion$110kEducation$71kHousing & Shelter$50kYouth Development$35kAnimals$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $167k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $395k
  • $250k+1 grant · $332k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION - DONOR ADVISED FUND$331,782
LES AMIES$115,000
CASA DE AMMA$100,000
SHARE OURSELVES$75,000
ST ANDREW'S PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$55,000
HUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA - ORANGE COUNTY$50,000
NORTHEAST OF THE WELL$25,000
SAVE OUR YOUTH$25,000
CALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL$25,000
HUNTINGTON SOCIETY OC$25,000
ST ANASTASIA SCHOOL$25,000
Individual grant recipient$22,000
MARINERS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION$10,000
SAVE OUR YOUTH$10,000
NEWPORT HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
02The need
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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.

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Your human-services grants (FY25–25, $190k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LES AMIES: $115k → 14%SHARE OURSELVES: $75k → 10%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 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.

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Sage Hill School

We inspire in our students a love of knowledge and the ability to use that knowledge creatively, compassionately and courageously throughout their lives.sage hill school's commitment to academic excellence and our outstanding college…

Education
2
Vistamar School

Vistamar school empowers students, preparing them to contribute and excel in higher education and in life, and commits to: a broad and balanced program that challenges and engages students, building their individual skills and inspiring a…

Education
3
Saint Mary's College of California

Saint mary's college of california invites you to passionately embrace knowledge, the challenges of scholarship, and the capacity to make lasting change in the world. the foundation for this is our mission. to probe deeply the mystery of…

Education
4
San Domenico School

Our mission is to provide exceptional education rooted in inquiry, reflection, and purpose. as a global community of lifelong learners, san domenico inspires students to joyfully discover their passions, develop the skills and knowledge to…

Education
5
Casa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families

Casa Pacifica inspires hope and nurtures mental health and well-being of children, young adults, and families to realize their full potential.

Human Services
6
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto

Nuestra Casa exists to uplift Latino families in East Palo Alto and the mid-peninsula through community education, leadership and advocacy

Human Services
7
Communities in Schools of Los Angeles Inc

To surround students with a community of support, empowering them to stay in school and achieve in life. we work with public school systems, establishing relationship with superintendents, principals, educators, and community partners to…

Youth Development
8
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
9
Mexican Medical Inc

Bring healing and hope to the people of mexico.

International
10
The Chicago School of Professional Psychology

The Chicago School educates the next generation of change-makers in innovative theory and culturally competent practice to strengthen the integrated health of individuals, organizations, and communities.

Education
11
Mary's Shelter

Believing in the value of every life, mary's path empowers vulnerable teen mothers in foster care and their babies to create lives of dignity, hope and self-sufficiency.

Human Services
12
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Share Our Selves Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Save Our Youth Soy. 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

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 24 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
2/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

RENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION - DONOR ADVISED FUND — $331,782 · OtherRENAISSANCE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION - DONOR ADVISED FUNDST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — $55,000 · OtherST ANDREWS PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHLAS MADRINAS — $50,000 · OtherLAS MADRINASHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA - ORANGE COUNTY — $50,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON'S DISEASE SOCIETY OF AMERICA - ORANGE COUNTYST ANASTASIA SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherHUNTINGTON SOCIETY OC — $25,000 · OtherCALVARY CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — $25,000 · OtherHuntington's Disease Society — $25,000 · OtherMONTECITO COVENANT CHURCH SANTA BARBARA CA — $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $22,000 · Other+4 more — $17,000 · OtherLES AMIES INC — $115,000 · Human ServicesLES AMIES INCShare Our Selves Corporation — $75,000 · Human ServicesShare Our Selves Co…CASA DE AMMA — $110,000 · HealthCASA DE AMM…SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterSAVE OUR YOUTH SOY — $35,000 · Crime & LegalPRICELESS PUPPY RESCUE CORP — $25,000 · AnimalsNortheast of the Well — $25,000 · ReligionMariners Elementary School Foundation — $10,000 · EducationNEWPORT HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION C/O EMILY EVANS — $5,000 · EducationWESTMONT COLLEGE — $1,063 · Education
Other$650,782Human Services$190,000Health$110,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Crime & Legal$35,000Animals$25,000Religion$25,000Education$16,063

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLES AMIES INC — $115,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetCASA DE AMMA — $110,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetShare Our Selves Corporation — $75,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAS MADRINAS — $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION — $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSAVE OUR YOUTH SOY — $35,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetPRICELESS PUPPY RESCUE CORP — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMariners Elementary School Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetNEWPORT HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION C/O EMILY EVANS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWESTMONT COLLEGE — $1,063 over 1y, 0.0% 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 LES AMIES INC
  • Who funds CASA DE AMMA
  • Who funds Share Our Selves Corporation
  • Who funds LAS MADRINAS
  • Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION
  • Who funds SAVE OUR YOUTH SOY
  • Who funds PRICELESS PUPPY RESCUE CORP
  • Who funds Northeast of the Well
  • Who funds Mariners Elementary School Foundation
  • Who funds NEWPORT HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION C/O EMILY EVANS
  • Who funds WESTMONT COLLEGE

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.

Orange County Community FoundationCA15.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Archer Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    04Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Archer Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Archer 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 24 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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