· Private foundation
Christopher Ranch Foundation Inc
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of Christopher Ranch Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Gilroy Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Christopher Ranch Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $138k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 79% of CHRISTOPHER RANCH FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k21 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| STJOSEPH'S FAMILY CENTER | $20,260 |
| GILROY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $15,895 |
| REBEKAH CHILDREN'S SERVICES | $14,300 |
| SOUTH VALLEY CIVIC THEATRE | $8,582 |
| MUSSON THEATRICAL | $6,686 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| GILROY FOUNDATION - LATINO FAMILY FUND | $3,500 |
| HABING FAMILY FUNERAL HOME | $2,819 |
| INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION INC | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| MORGAN HILL PONY BASEBALL | $1,750 |
| ST MARY'S CEMETERY | $1,032 |
| GILROY HIGH SCHOOL QUARTERBACK CLUB | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +14% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SVSouth Valley Civic Theatre3× · 2021–2023 · $35k · revenue +233%
- SCSOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER4× · 2020–2023 · $34k · revenue +6%
- OFODD FELLOW- REBEKAH CHILDRENS HOME OF CALIFORNIA5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- GGGILROY GARLIC FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue ×17 · 32% of their budget
- FTFEED THE FRONTLINES NYC INCone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue -94%
- SASAN ANTONIO FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +18%
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 purpose of the gilroy historical society is to bring together people interested in the history of gilroy and the surrounding area. understanding the history of our community is basic to our democratic way of life. it provides a view of…
The Gilroy Rodeo Association (GRA) is organized exclusively for the purpose of educating the public and informing the youth of Santa Clara County and surrounding areas in the art and history of the cowboy and cowgirl rodeo and about…
We believe that sports have the power to unite individuals from diverse backgrounds, promote physical fitness and well-being, and cultivate a spirit of camaraderie and sportsmanship.
To operate a boys and girls club facility and after-school and summer camp programs for all area children regardless of ability to pay in the Five Cities area of San Luis Obispo County.
Saint loiuse regional hospital was a 93-bed acute care hosptial which offered a wide range of services to residents of santa clara and san benito counties.
To provide community programs which support law enforcement and crime prevention needs of the community of gilroy. to provide training and equipment for the police department of the city of gilroy, a california municipal corporation.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Silicon Valley Rugby Football Club SVRFC is rugby program based in San Jose California and the surrounding areas. SVRFC's stated mission is encourage and grow the sport of rugby in the Silicon Valley and surrounding areas. SVRFC was…
The club's mission is to enable all young people, specially those who need it most, to reach their potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Organize plan and market silicon valley pride parade and associated events activities.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
promote and support downtown business
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Gilroy Assistance League and the most unlike its peers is Little League Baseball Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
24 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. 24 of the 50 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 GILROY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) ↗
- Who funds South Valley Civic Theatre ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds ODD FELLOW- REBEKAH CHILDRENS HOME OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds GILROY GARLIC FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEED THE FRONTLINES NYC INC ↗
- Who funds SAN ANTONIO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Independence Day Celebration Inc ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP GILROY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS ↗
- Who funds GILROY ASSISTANCE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MORGAN HILL PONY BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GILROY HIGH SCHOOL QUARTERBACK CLUB ↗
- Who funds FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA BARNESVILLE MN ALUMNI AS ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds ONE GIVING TREE ↗
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: Gilroy Foundation · The Rendiamo Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Christopher Ranch Foundation Inc 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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