· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $2,000 |
| MORGAN HILL PONY BASEBALL | $1,750 |
| ST MARY'S CEMETERY | $1,032 |
| GILROY HIGH SCHOOL QUARTERBACK CLUB | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +8% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
- JEJG EYES UP FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $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.
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.
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
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 50 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Christopher Ranch Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christopher Ranch Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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