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Bewley-Motluk Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Bewley-Motluk Charitable 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.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$151kHuman Services$102kEnvironment$83kYouth Development$53kEducation$34kReligion$26kInternational$19kFood & Nutrition$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $39k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
$1,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$963k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Center for Domestic Peace$11,500
Pacific Forest Trust$10,000
Planned Parenthood of NC$7,000
UCSF Medical Center$4,000
Samaritan Neighborhood Center$3,500
Center for Reproductive Rights$2,500
Laytonville Healthy Start$2,500
EOYDC$2,000
PPP3CA Hope Foundation$1,500
Marin Ventures$1,500
Marin Food Bank$1,500
Marin Health Foundation$1,500
Bells Springs Volunteer Fire Dept$1,000
San Francisco Day School$1,000
Climate Central$1,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $114k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 35% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Sunflower of Peace: $2k → 8%The Oaks Childrens Center: $5k → 18%The Oaks Childrens Center: $5k → 18%The Oaks Childrens Center: $5k → 18%Samaritan Neighborhood Center: $5k → 10%The Oaks Childrens Center: $5k → 18%Marin Ventures: $3k → 8%The Oaks Childrens Center: $5k → 18%Marin Ventures: $3k → 8%Samaritan Neighborhood Center: $4k → 10%The Oaks Childrens Center: $4k → 18%Marin Ventures: $2k → 8%The Oaks Childrens Center: $4k → 18%Marin Ventures: $2k → 8%Marin Ventures: $2k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $12k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $10k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $8k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $8k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $7k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $6k → 8%Center for Domestic Peace: $6k → 8%Ritter Center: $2k → 8%Vivalon: $2k → 8%Vivalon: $2k → 8%Vivalon: $1k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
NJ
CA
MD
AZ
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$492k · 39 repeat orgs$49k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
16

Total granted

$492k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+5%

Still filing today

51%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentInternationalEducationArts & CultureHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TP
    The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated
    7× · 2017–2024 · $67k · revenue +293%
  • Center for Domestic Peace
    7× · 2017–2024 · $55k · revenue +79%
  • OF
    OKIZU FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · $28k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • UF
    UCSF Foundation Pediatric Cardiolog
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • HC
    Halleck Creek Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • BG
    Boys Girls Club of SF
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
2
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
3
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
4
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
Marin Humane 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.

Animals
8
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
9
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
10
Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine

Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.

Environment
11
CalMatters

Our team of experienced journalists, with the time and resources to dig deep, is committed to meaningfully informing Californians about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives.

Civil Rights
12
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adopt a Family of Marin; the most unlike its peers is PPP3CA Hope Foundation. 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

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 39 of the 65 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
21/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $67,250 · OtherThe Pacific Forest Trust IncorporatedPlanned Parenthood of NC: $51,550 · OtherPlanned Parenthood of NCEOYDC - QALICB: $27,500 · OtherEOYDC - QALICBOKIZU FOUNDATION: $27,500 · OtherOKIZU FOUNDATIONSt Vincent DePaul of Marin: $25,500 · OtherSt Vincent DePaul of MarinStudent Tutorial Endeavor Program: $25,000 · OtherStudent Tutorial Endeavor ProgramLaytonville Healthy Start: $21,000 · OtherLaytonville Healthy Start+38 more: $136,570 · Other+38 moreCenter for Domestic Peace: $55,100 · Human ServicesCenter for Domestic Pea…Oaks Childrens Center Inc: $32,500 · Human ServicesOaks Childrens Center I…MARIN VENTURES: $10,500 · Human ServicesMARIN VENTURESSAMARITAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $8,000 · Human ServicesSAMARITAN NEIGHBORHOOD …Vivalon: $4,000 · Human Services+2 more: $4,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $15,000 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 · International+1 more: $500 · InternationalPoint Reyes National Seashore Association: $6,500 · EnvironmentTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $2,500 · EnvironmentGrist Magazine Inc: $1,000 · EnvironmentSTAND: $500 · Environment350ORG: $500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $500 · EnvironmentHomeward Bound of Marin: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterMendocino Coast Humane Society: $6,000 · AnimalsMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · HealthPPP3CA HOPE FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Health
Other$381,870Human Services$114,100International$17,500Environment$11,500Housing & Shelter$6,000Animals$6,000Health$4,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated: $67,250 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Domestic Peace: $55,100 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetOaks Childrens Center Inc: $32,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetEOYDC - QALICB: $27,500 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION: $27,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $15,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN VENTURES: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER: $8,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWOMEN'S COMMUNITY CLINIC: $6,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPoint Reyes National Seashore Association: $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMendocino Coast Humane Society: $6,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN: $5,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetVivalon: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $2,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLIMATE CENTRAL INC: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRITTER CENTER: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNFLOWER OF PEACE FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPPP3CA HOPE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrist Magazine Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSIDE CLIMATE NEWS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $720 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMENDOCINO COUNTY PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANTHROPOCENE ALLIANCE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIONUTRIENT FOOD ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSTAND: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CARBON REMOVAL: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKALW PUBLIC MEDIA INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds Center for Domestic Peace ↗
  • Who funds Oaks Childrens Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds EOYDC - QALICB ↗
  • Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MARIN VENTURES ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
  • Who funds Point Reyes National Seashore Association ↗
  • Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF OAKLAND ↗
  • Who funds Mendocino Coast Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds ADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN ↗
  • Who funds Vivalon ↗
  • Who funds Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE CENTRAL INC ↗
  • Who funds MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE ALLIANCE FOR CLIMATE PROTECTION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Hobsonlucas Family Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…McNabb FoundationThe Fred Gellert Fami…Leonard & Beryl Buck …The Lumpkin Family Fo…Heffernan Group Found…East Bay Community Fo…The Thomas Hodge Foun…
Marin Community FoundationCA25.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Fred Gellert Family Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · The Lumpkin Family Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Thomas Hodge Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bewley-Motluk Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bewley-Motluk Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Anthropocene Alliance: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Bewley-Motluk Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bewley-Motluk Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 65 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home