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Bothin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
74
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$3.0MHealth$2.5MYouth Development$2.0MArts & Culture$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.1MEducation$1.1MFood & Nutrition$796kEnvironment$728kOther$0
02FY2025 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $103k
  • $10k–50k28 grants · $799k
  • $50k–250k26 grants · $1.3M
$30,200
Median grant
3
States reached
$48M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMAN INVESTMENT PROJECT INC$50,000
TIDES CENTER$50,000
SAN BRUNO MOUNTAIN WATCH$50,000
HALLECK CREEK INSTITUTE$50,000
CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC$50,000
THE AMERICAN INDIAN CULTURAL CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO$50,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO$50,000
TIDES CENTER$50,000
FARMING HOPE$50,000
WOMEN'S AUDIO MISSION$50,000
CAFE PUENTE$50,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COASTSIDE$50,000
EAST PALO ALTO TENNIS AND TUTORING$50,000
SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC$50,000
HOMIES ORGANIZING THE MISSION TO EMPOWER YOUTH (HOMEY)$50,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%THE UNITY CARE GROUP: $40k → 8%LIVING ROOM CENTER INC: $50k → 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%ABILITIES UNITED: $50k → 8%CLIMATE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES: $50k → 8%ALTERNATIVE FAMILY SERVICES: $40k → 10%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $36k → 7%PEDIATRIC DENTAL INITIATIVE OF HTE NORTH COAST INC: $40k → 9%NUESTRA CASA DE EAST PALO ALTO: $32k → 8%HELPERS COMMUNITY INC: $50k → 10%MOUNT ST JOSEPH-ST ELIZABETH: $50k → 10%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $40k → 8%FORGET ME NOT CHILDRENS SERVICES: $50k → 9%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $48k → 10%CALIFORNIA PARENTING INSTITUTE: $50k → 9%BECOMING INDEPENDENT: $35k → 9%CAFE PUENTE: $50k → 8%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES: $40k → 7%YOUTH TRANSPORTATION ORGANIZATION: $48k → 8%NORTH AND SOUTH OF MARKET ADULT DAY HEALTH CARE CORP: $30k → 10%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $48k → 9%COASTSIDE HOPE: $50k → 7%CURRY SENIOR CENTER: $50k → 10%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%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%NORTH AND SOUTH OF MARKET ADULT DAY HEALTH CORP: $50k → 10%SUPPORT FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES: $30k → 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
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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 5% of Bothin Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 84%.

Bothin Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.1M · 136 repeat orgs$7.8M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +60% since the first grant, against +22% for those funded once.

136 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 106 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

136
247

Total granted

$9.1M
$7.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+22%

Still filing today

96%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $830k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
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

  • SC
    South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center
    3× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +131%
  • WA
    Womens Audio Mission
    3× · 2018–2025 · $138k · revenue +50%
  • OL
    ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER
    3× · 2019–2025 · $123k · revenue +677%

Funded once

  • CC
    Children's Council of San Franciscograduated
    one grant, 2020 · $56k · revenue +94%
  • CR
    Climate Resilient Communitiesgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +180%
  • UE
    Urban Ed Academy
    one grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -69%
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
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
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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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
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
6
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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7
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
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
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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10
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.

—
11
Ala Costa Centers a Program for Developmentally Disabled

To provide each student or participant with the access, skills, and opportunities needed to become successful and productive members of society, and to encourage them to have some fun along the way. The Organization offers support and…

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12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Centers; 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.
05the grantee network

377 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 377 of the 412 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
98
Early backer (in before they grew)
367/377
Grantees still filing
261/377
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES CENTER: $225,800 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $102,800 · Human ServicesTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY: $102,100 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $99,900 · Human Services+41 more: $2,375,668 · Human Services+41 more+83 more: $5,249,764 · Other+83 moreSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center: $140,000 · HealthSouth Coun…ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER: $123,300 · HealthONE LIFE C…MARIN CITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER: $96,300 · HealthMARIN CITY…Homies Organizing The Mission To Empower Youth HOMEY: $95,000 · HealthHomies Org…VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE - SAN FRANCISCO: $95,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS…HARM REDUCTION THERAPY CENTER: $80,000 · HealthHARM REDUC…Side By Side: $77,348 · HealthSide By Si…Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc: $71,100 · HealthPlanned Pa…FAMILY HOUSE INC: $60,000 · HealthBEATS RHYMES AND LIFE: $55,000 · HealthWEST 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 · HealthEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES: $48,500 · HealthTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA: $45,650 · Health+1 more: $40,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $110,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA 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 & CultureMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY: $60,000 · Arts & CultureMANNAKIN THEATER AND DANCE: $60,000 · Arts & CultureVIVO YOUTH ORCHESTRAS: $56,800 · Arts & CultureRoot Division: $55,000 · Arts & CultureThe Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCIRCUS CENTER: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $50,000 · Arts & CultureCURIODYSSEY: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $44,200 · Arts & CultureMARIN PERFORMING STARS: $40,000 · Arts & Culture10000 DEGREES: $69,330 · Education826 Valencia: $60,000 · EducationREDWOOD CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $60,000 · EducationFACES SF: $55,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $55,000 · EducationUpward Scholars: $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 · EducationThe Bridge School: $42,800 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $40,000 · EducationAll Five: $40,000 · EducationFriends of St Francis Childcare Center Inc: $40,000 · 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 DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COASTSIDE: $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 DevelopmentBOOKER T WASHINGTON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTRIPS FOR KIDS MARIN: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING: $115,000 · Recreation & SportsSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $89,348 · Recreation & SportsOUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA: $81,700 · Recreation & SportsCity Surf Project: $80,000 · Recreation & SportsCAMPING UNLIMITED FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED: $69,000 · Recreation & SportsBAY AREA SCORES: $44,700 · Recreation & SportsBattle Tested Kids INC: $40,000 · Recreation & Sports
Human Services$2,906,268Other$5,249,764Health$1,226,498Arts & Culture$988,450Education$954,030Youth Development$814,900Recreation & Sports$519,748

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTIDES CENTER: $225,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center: $140,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Audio Mission: $137,600 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER: $123,300 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $116,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO TENNIS & TUTORING: $115,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER: $110,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFARMING HOPE: $105,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $102,800 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SONOMA COUNTY: $102,100 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetExtrafood: $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetCONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC: $100,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $99,900 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMARIN CITY HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER: $96,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHomies Organizing The Mission To Empower Youth HOMEY: $95,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER: $95,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360: $95,000 over 4y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $90,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSan Francisco CASA: $90,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetMission Neighborhood Centers Inc: $90,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco: $90,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSTANBRIDGE ACADEMY: $90,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION: $90,000 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $89,348 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSupport for Families of Children with Disabilities: $88,868 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin: $85,000 over 2y, 0.3% 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 budgetProject Open Hand: $83,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLa Casa de las Madres: $83,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $82,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CALIFORNIA: $81,700 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $81,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLandPaths: $81,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNORTH AND SOUTH OF MARKET ADULT DAY HEALTH CORPORATION: $80,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSAFE & SOUND: $80,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHARM REDUCTION THERAPY CENTER: $80,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCity Surf Project: $80,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION: $79,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Good Shepherd Gracenter of San Francisco: $79,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetTHE UNITY CARE GROUP: $77,900 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSTREETCODE ACADEMY: $77,400 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetSide By Side: $77,348 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOPE HORIZON EAST PALO ALTO: $76,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS: $76,000 over 2y, 2.9% 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.

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.

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

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 Bothin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bothin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%4%15%34%60%funder's 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
    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.
    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 412 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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