· Private foundation
Charles Piper Cost 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE PRODUCER PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| SIESTA VALLEY FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FULCRUM FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND | $3,700 |
| GOLDEN STATE SALMON ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| JOE GOODE PERFORMACE GROUP | $3,000 |
| THE CURRENT - MINNESOTA PUBLIC RADI | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY | $2,500 |
| LA LUZ CENTER | $2,500 |
| CALTROUT | $2,500 |
| SONOMA COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDA | $2,500 |
| REDWOOD TRAILS ALLIANCE | $2,500 |
| WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY | $2,500 |
| SONOMA LAND TRUST | $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 (FY20–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% 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
- SFSANTA FE PRO MUSICA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $56k · revenue +51%
- CSCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +12%
- JGJoe Goode Performance Group6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- BSBENTLEY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +15%
- TBThe Berkeley Relief Fundone grant, 2020 · $1k
- UUUnitarian Universalist Fellowship of Kern County - KWESIone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
Cuenca los ojos works to preserve and restore the biodiversity of the us/mexican borderlands through land protection, habitat restoration and wildlife reintroduction.
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Wild and Free Foundation. 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 30 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 57 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 SANTA FE PRO MUSICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds Joe Goode Performance Group ↗
- Who funds Habitot Childrens Museum ↗
- Who funds LA LUZ CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds PRODUCERS PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STATE SALMON ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIGHORN RIVER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds IMPACT JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds Sonoma County Regional Parks Foundation ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD TRAILS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds SONOMA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds WILD AND FREE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Community Scholars DBA Berkeley Community Fund ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELWRIGHT MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN INDIAN ↗
- Who funds SIESTA VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY PARTNERS FOR PARKS ↗
- Who funds BIENVENIDOS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA O'KEEFFE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO IMMIGRANT LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW MEXICO COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
- Who funds LENSIC PERFORMING ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF SOUTHBOROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN TAPESTRY ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER FOUNDATION FOR NEW MEXICO ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION ↗
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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Gale Family Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Charles Piper Cost 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.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Western Rivers Conservancy — 0% of income from government
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.