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Bothin Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
63
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Human Services$3.0MHealth$2.5MYouth Development$2.0MArts & Culture$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MEducation$1.1MFood & Nutrition$796kEnvironment$728kOther$0
02FY2024 · 63 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $48k
  • $10k–50k37 grants · $1.0M
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $900k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK$50,000
NORTH AND SOUTH OF MARKET ADULT DAY HEALTH CORP$50,000
CITY SURF PROJECT$50,000
EXTRAFOOD$50,000
MARIN FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION$50,000
COASTSIDE HOPE$50,000
YOUTH LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE$50,000
MISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY$50,000
BRIDGE THE GAP COLLEGE PREP$50,000
HAMILTON FAMILIES$50,000
WEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC$50,000
HELPERS COMMUNITY INC$50,000
ANOVA EDUCATION AND BEHAVIOR CONSULTATION INC$50,000
ALLIANCE MEDICAL CENTER$50,000
LITERACY FOR ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%COMMUNITY CHILD CARE COUNCIL OF SONOMA COUNTY INC: $38k → 9%PARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $40k → 7%THE UNITY CARE GROUP: $30k → 8%CITY YOUTH NOW: $30k → 10%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $50k → 10%MULTICULTURAL CENTER OF MARIN: $34k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $25k → 8%ABILITIES UNITED: $50k → 8%CLIMATE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES: $50k → 8%NUESTRA CASA DE EAST PALO ALTO: $32k → 8%ALTERNATIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 10%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $36k → 7%PEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE OF HTE NORTH COAST INC: $40k → 9%MOUNT ST JOSEPH-ST ELIZABETH: $50k → 10%HELPERS COMMUNITY INC: $50k → 10%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $40k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $48k → 10%CALIFORNIA PARENTING INSTITUTE: $50k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $30k → 10%BECOMING INDEPENDENT: $35k → 9%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $29k → 7%YOUTH TRANSPORTATION ORGANIZATION: $48k → 8%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES: $40k → 7%NORTH AND SOUTH OF MARKET ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE CORP: $30k → 10%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 10%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $48k → 9%COASTSIDE HOPE: $50k → 7%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $50k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $42k → 10%COASTSIDE CHILDREN'S PROGRAMS: $30k → 7%CHILDRENS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $46k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $35k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $35k → 10%PORTOLA FAMILY CONNECTION CENTER INC: $30k → 10%GUM MOON RESIDENCE HALL: $44k → 10%THE SAN FRANCISCO PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $50k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $40k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $38k → 10%THE ARC OF SAN FRANCISCO: $35k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $30k → 10%NORTH AND SOUTH OF MARKET ADULT DAY HEALTH CORP: $50k → 10%MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS INC: $50k → 10%MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $40k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $46k → 10%CITY HOPE SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $50k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $40k → 10%CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO: $35k → 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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 5% of Bothin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 84% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Bothin Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.3M · 119 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

119 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 92 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

119
234

Total granted

$7.3M
$6.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+25%

Still filing today

96%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther

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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO
    3× · 2017–2023 · $116k · revenue +57%
  • HY
    HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $103k · revenue +90%
  • E
    Extrafood
    2× · 2017–2024 · $100k · revenue ×11

Funded once

  • CC
    Children's Council of San Franciscograduated
    one grant, 2020 · $56k · revenue +94%
  • RC
    Redwood City Police Activities League Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue +135%
  • UE
    Urban Ed Academy
    one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -69%

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

04Your 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.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
2
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
3
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
4
Community Youth Center of San Francisco

Our mission is to encourage a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life. Every year, CYC impacts over 8,000 San Francisco youth and their families,…

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5
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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6
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
7
Foodwise Community

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.

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8
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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9
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

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10
Instituto Familiar De La Raza

Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…

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11
Peninsula Family Connections

Family Connections is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993 that strengthens families and builds resilient communities in San Mateo County. The organization provides evidence-based, family-centered programs that support parents and…

Health
12
People with Disabilities Succeeding

Community support for Developmentally Disabled Adults, with a main emphasis on helping people to obtain and maintain real jobs in local businesses.

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Compass Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Common Ground Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr13%6%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr20%26%20–35yr14%28%35–55yr13%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr13%4%5–10yr19%19%10–20yr20%25%20–35yr14%29%35–55yr13%22%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%4/362
the rest of the field
11%
1,581/14,956

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.

05the grantee network

359 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. 359 of the 390 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
97
Early backer (in before they grew)
349/359
Grantees still filing
257/359
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIDES CENTER — $115,800 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $102,800 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS — $99,900 · Human ServicesMission Neighborhood Centers Inc — $90,000 · Human Services+43 more — $2,245,118 · Human Services+43 more+86 more — $4,802,082 · Other+86 moreVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO — $95,000 · HealthVOLUNTEER…South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center — $90,000 · HealthSouth Cou…HARM REDUCTION THERAPY CENTER — $80,000 · HealthHARM REDU…Side By Side — $77,348 · HealthSide By S…ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER — $73,300 · HealthONE LIFE …Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $71,100 · HealthPlanned P…FAMILY HOUSE INC — $60,000 · HealthFAMILY HO…BEATS RHYMES AND LIFE — $55,000 · HealthBEATS RHY…WEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $50,000 · HealthSANTA ROSA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $50,000 · HealthALLIANCE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 · HealthCOPPERTOWER FAMILY MED CTR INC DBA ALEXANDER VALLEY HEALTHCARE — $49,300 · HealthMARIN CITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER — $46,300 · HealthTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA — $45,650 · HealthHomies Organizing The Mission To Empower Youth HOMEY — $45,000 · HealthCalifornia Clubhouse DBA Aspire House — $40,000 · Health10000 DEGREES — $69,330 · EducationREDWOOD CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION — $60,000 · Education826 Valencia — $60,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES — $55,000 · EducationFACES SF — $55,000 · EducationUrban Ed Academy — $55,000 · EducationANOVA EDUCATION & BEHAVIOR CONSULTATION INC — $50,000 · EducationInstitute for Human & Social Development — $50,000 · EducationTHE HELIX SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationLife Learning Academy — $50,000 · EducationMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC — $47,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR HEARING RESEARCH INC WEINGARTEN CHILDRENS CENTER — $46,500 · EducationWise Choices for Girls — $45,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA — $43,400 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $40,000 · EducationFriends of St Francis Childcare Center Inc — $40,000 · EducationAll Five — $40,000 · EducationSCHOLARMATCH INC — $35,400 · EducationBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $116,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY — $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTREETCODE ACADEMY — $77,400 · Youth DevelopmentDEV MISSION — $75,300 · Youth DevelopmentLiteracy for Environmental Justice — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentNorth Marin Community Services — $56,700 · Youth DevelopmentOld Skool Cafe — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentBridge the Gap College Prep — $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS NORTH SAN MATEO COUNTY — $49,500 · Youth DevelopmentENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRIPS FOR KIDS MARIN — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOOKER T WASHINGTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADUATE — $36,000 · Youth DevelopmentCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER — $95,000 · Arts & CultureNew Conservatory Theatre Center — $85,000 · Arts & CultureBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $72,450 · Arts & CultureMUSIC FOR MINORS INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER — $60,000 · Arts & CultureMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $60,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCIRCUS CENTER — $50,000 · Arts & CultureThe Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated — $50,000 · Arts & CultureCURIODYSSEY — $45,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $44,200 · Arts & CultureMARIN PERFORMING STARS — $40,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $89,348 · Recreation & SportsCity Surf Project — $80,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMPING UNLIMITED FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $69,000 · Recreation & SportsOUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA — $63,000 · Recreation & SportsEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsBAY AREA SCORES — $44,700 · Recreation & SportsBattle Tested Kids INC — $40,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$2,653,618Other$4,802,082Health$977,998Education$891,630Youth Development$785,900Arts & Culture$766,650Recreation & Sports$446,048

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO — $116,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $115,800 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $102,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetExtrafood — $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS — $99,900 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360 — $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER — $95,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO — $95,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetWomens Recovery ServicesA Unique Place — $91,300 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $90,900 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSan Francisco CASA — $90,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMission Neighborhood Centers Inc — $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center — $90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION — $90,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSTANBRIDGE ACADEMY — $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE — $89,348 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWomens Audio Mission — $87,600 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY — $85,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNew Conservatory Theatre Center — $85,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin — $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $82,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $81,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLandPaths — $81,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetHARM REDUCTION THERAPY CENTER — $80,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $80,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCity Surf Project — $80,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetNORTH AND SOUTH OF MARKET ADULT DAY HEALTH CORPORATION — $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSTREETCODE ACADEMY — $77,400 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSide By Side — $77,348 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS — $76,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetDEV MISSION — $75,300 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetMount St Joseph-St Elizabeth — $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse — $75,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTelegraph Hill Neighborhood Association — $75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $74,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER — $73,300 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $72,450 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE HEAL PROJECT — $72,229 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetMarin Brain Injury Network Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery — $71,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $71,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Childrens Network — $70,800 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT — $70,300 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetSWORDS TO PLOWSHARES VETERANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget10000 DEGREES — $69,330 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAMPING UNLIMITED FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED — $69,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCONSERVATION EARTH INC — $68,200 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY — $68,200 over 2y, 1.4% 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.

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.

McNabb FoundationAtkinson FoundationThe William G Irwin C…The Morris Stulsaft F…The San Francisco Fou…Sonoma County Communi…Marin Community Found…Sonoma County Vintner…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Tipping Point Communi…The Joseph and Vera L…Bella Vista Foundation
McNabb FoundationDE148.2× affinity111 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McNabb Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Tipping Point Community · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Bella Vista 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 Bothin 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    117report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Bothin Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Bothin 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 390 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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