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Cloud Nine Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $32k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPIRIT ROCK MEDITATION CENTER | $60,000 |
| STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC | $20,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY INSIGHT MEDITATION | $12,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO ALLIANCE OF BLACK SCHOOL EDUCATORS | $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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down.
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, 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
- SASTAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2022–2025 · $62k · revenue +34%
ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE2× · 2017–2018 · $27k · revenue +491%- SFSAN FRANCISCO AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL & CULTURAL SOCIETY3× · 2019–2021 · $19k · revenue +5%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue 0%- SSSCIENCE SISTAS INCone grant, 2020 · $10k
- NANATIONAL ALLIANCE OF BLACK SCHOOL EDUCATgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +471%
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 mission of San Francisco Achievers is to inspire and empower African-American young men in the San Francisco Unified School District to succeed in college and postsecondary institutions.
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.
Promote public understanding of policies supporting the creation of well-designed, well-located housing at all levels of affordability for residents of the Bay Area, California.
To provide californias african american youth with the tools, education and experiences to prepare them to become fully engaged participants in the states civic and economic life
Educate and advocacy
The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…
The mission of the Sacramento Black chamber of commerce is to assure member businesses will benefit through services that sustain and increase their revenue. Additionally, the region will benefit through the growth of African American…
Sf black wall street was founded in june 2020 by a group of seven black san francisco natives in response to the devastating impact of covid-19 and anti-black racism on black business, cultural space, and stakeholdership. we are a network…
Black Freedom Fund works to realize racial justice for all and empowers Black communities through grantmaking, capacity-building, research, civic engagement, and narrative change.
Our mission is to address the professional needs of our members and to build leaders to shape the future of the accounting and finance profession.
The Funds mission is to provide sustained support to grassroots organizing projects and movements rooted in the multi-racial working class which rely on their members and constituency to build power in the community.
The Organization advocates for health equity by leading and facilitating convenings in all regions of California for the purpose of providing policy analysis, research and training that promotes best practices, which supports the creation…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Alliance of Black School Educators and the most unlike its peers is Young Community Developers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 STAYING ALIVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL & CULTURAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ALLIANCE OF BLACK SCHOOL EDUCATORS ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF BLACK SCHOOL EDUCAT ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG COMMUNITY DEVELOPERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Cloud Nine 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.
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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Find your warmest path to Cloud Nine 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.