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Berenice Roth Spalding Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $31k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EXTRAFOODORG | $11,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA WILDERNESS COALITION | $10,000 |
| FACES SF | $9,500 |
| FARMING HOPE | $9,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN LAND CONSERVANCY | $8,000 |
| HOMEWARD BOUND OF MARIN | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| BLUE FRONTIER | $4,500 |
| LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES | $4,000 |
| SOUTH BAY CHILDRENS HEALTH CENTER | $4,000 |
| TEEN LINE DIDI HIRSCH MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES | $4,000 |
| SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| REFUGIA MARIN | $1,000 |
| LA CASA DE LAS MADRES | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- THTHE HAMLIN SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $60k · revenue +18%
- FHFARMING HOPE5× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +233%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2017–2019 · $46k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- TAThe ACC Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +76%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +47%
- MPMINNOW PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $12k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
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…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
Our mission is to support california farmers and communities by providing farmers markets for our diverse bay area neighborhoods. we do this by operating certified farmers markets in six bay area counties. these farmers markets provide…
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Filoli Center and the most unlike its peers is Ocean Voyages Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
47 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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 47 of the 74 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE HAMLIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FARMING HOPE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Extrafood ↗
- Who funds CalWild ↗
- Who funds Native American Land Conservancy ↗
- Who funds FACES SF ↗
- Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
- Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FARMWORKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The ACC Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ocean Voyages Institute ↗
- Who funds The Whole Child - Mental Health & Housing Services ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
- Who funds American Indian Services ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds GATHERING FOR WOMEN - MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BAY CHILDRENS HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds SLS PRESCHOOL ↗
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.
Open a dossier: McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Bothin Foundation · Tides Foundation · Crescent Porter Hale Foundation · Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund
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 Berenice Roth Spalding 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.
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.
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