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Better Future 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $21k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HEALTHY AGING VILLAGES FOR ALL | $50,000 |
| LAMORINDA VILLAGE INC | $10,600 |
| VILLAGE TO VILLAGE NETWORK LLC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| CHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WIGMORE HALL INC | $5,000 |
| CHAMBER MUSIC SAN FRANCISCO | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $5,000 |
| CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC | $2,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE ORINDA LIBRARY INC | $2,500 |
| CALIFORNIA COUNCIL ON SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | $2,500 |
| GLYNDEBOURNE AMERICA INC | $2,500 |
| ORINDA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION | $2,500 |
| FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES | $2,500 |
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 (FY24–25, $171k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…
Carmel Bach Festival offers innovative artistic programming across all concerts, off-season activities to expand access outside Carmel and the Monterey Peninsula, and is taking strategic risks to cultivate younger and more diverse…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
To support the scientific and educational purposes of the regents of the university of california (the "university"), in its specific capacity as manager and operator of the lawrence berkeley national laboratory and to carry on other…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Friends of the Orinda Library Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of Wigmore Hall Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 Healthy Aging Villages for All ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds LAMORINDA VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds Village to Village Network Inc ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AREA VILLAGES EXCHANGE ↗
- Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WIGMORE HALL INC ↗
- Who funds CHABOT SPACE & SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INQUIRY INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds ORINDA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds California Council on Science and Techno logy ↗
- Who funds GLYNDEBOURNE AMERICA INC CO THE LAW OFFICES OF RICHARD M BLOCK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ORINDA LIBRARY INC ↗
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: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Better Future 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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