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Cross Ridge Foundation Co Davidson Daw

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$92k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$205kArts & Culture$140kRecreation & Sports$105kEducation$89kInternational$58kCivil Rights$56kPublic Benefit$42kHuman Services$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NPR$15,000
AUDOBON CANYON RANCH$10,000
WOMENS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSISTANCE PROJECT$10,000
SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP$10,000
WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES$7,500
YES NATURE TO NEIGHBORHOODS$5,000
DAYS FOR GIRLS INTERNATIONAL$5,000
EASTER ISLAND FOUNDATION$5,000
PROPUBLICA$5,000
OAKGROVE EDUCATION PARTNERS$5,000
BEYOND THE REEF INTERNATIONAL$5,000
KQED$5,000
CAPE COD TECH FOUNDATION$3,000
GEORGE GARDNER SCHOLARSHIP FUND$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 61% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%STAY TRUE LLC: $5k → 22%ACHEIVE TAHOE: $5k → 6%AUDOBON CANYON RANCH: $10k → 8%YES NATURE TO NEIGHBORHOODS: $10k → 9%OAKGROVE EDUCATION PARTNERS: $5k → 9%EASTER ISLAND FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP: $15k → 13%WOMENS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $10k → 14%COOPER UNION: $15k → 17%EARTH ECHO INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES: $10k → 12%DAYS FOR GIRLS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 11%DOUG COOMBS FOUNDATION: $5k → 5%LETS GROW KIDS: $20k → 10%ALOHA FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $5k → 23%STAY TRUE LLC: $5k → 22%TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK: $5k → 8%YES NATURE TO NEIGHBORHOODS: $10k → 9%KQED: $5k → 10%EASTER ISLAND FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP: $10k → 13%WOMENS REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS ASSISTANCE PROJECT: $5k → 14%COOPER UNION: $15k → 17%EARTH ECHO INTERNATIONAL: $15k → 14%WESTERN RESOURCE ADVOCATES: $8k → 12%DAYS FOR GIRLS INTERNATIONAL: $10k → 11%LETS GROW KIDS: $10k → 10%THE ALOHA FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA: $5k → 23%TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK: $5k → 8%YES NATURE TO NEIGHBORHOODS: $10k → 9%SIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP: $5k → 13%COOPER UNION: $15k → 17%EARTH ECHO INTERNATIONAL: $8k → 14%MIGRANT JUSTICE: $10k → 10%YES NATURE TO NEIGHBORHOODS: $10k → 9%COOPER UNION: $15k → 17%YES NATURE TO NEIGHBORHOODS: $10k → 9%COOPER UNION: $10k → 17%COOPER UNION: $10k → 17%COOPER UNION: $10k → 17%PROPUBLICA: $10k → 17%CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY: $10k → 14%SUMMER SEARCH NEW YORK CITY: $20k → 17%SUMMER SEARCH NEW YORK CITY: $10k → 17%SUMMER SEARCH NEW YORK CITY: $10k → 17%NPR: $15k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
WA
NY
MA
WY
PA
CA
CO
DC
LA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$737k · 23 repeat orgs$56k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
9

Total granted

$737k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

83%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyCrime & LegalEducationOther

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

  • TA
    THE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +13%
  • YN
    YES Nature to Neighborhoods
    6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +316%
  • WR
    Western Resource Advocates
    8× · 2018–2025 · $45k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • TD
    The Doug Coombs Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +512%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • N
    NARAL
    one grant, 2018 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
4
Rogue Climate

Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…

Education
5
Outdoor Equity Alliance

To create equitable access to nature in all communities and inspire a diverse new generation of environmental leaders.

Food & Nutrition
6
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
7
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
8
Cascade Climate Inc

To accelerate progress in interventions that harness Earths natural systems to stabilize the climate.

Environment
9
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills

Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.

—
10
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
11
Wildearth Guardians

Wildearth guardians works to protect and restore the wildlife, wild places, wild rivers, and health of the american west.

Unclassified
12
Wild Rockies Field Institute Inc

To broaden the nature of a liberal arts education; teach critical thinking about social & environmental issues; foster understanding of & respect for natural & human communities; & cultivate a sense of place that encourages personal,…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goodpower Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is George & Michael Gardner Fund. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Pregnancy Support ServicesNative Hawaiian Community D…Government Accountability R…Classical Music EnsemblesLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…Christian Youth Camps
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%4%<5yr14%12%5–10yr19%23%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%4%<5yr14%7%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%46%20–35yr13%8%35–55yr16%21%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/30
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,535

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.

04the grantee network

29 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. 29 of the 36 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

COOPER UNION — $90,000 · OtherCOOPER UNIONSUMMER SEARCH NEW YORK CITY — $45,000 · OtherSUMMER SEARCH NEW YORK CITYBEYOND THE REEF INTERNATIONAL — $27,500 · OtherBEYOND THE REEF INTERNATIONALNPR — $15,000 · OtherMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $32,500 · OtherMIGRANT JUSTICE INCDays For Girls International — $30,000 · OtherDays For Girls InternationalWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project — $20,000 · OtherWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Projec…FOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA — $15,000 · Other+8 more — $40,500 · Other+8 moreYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $55,000 · Youth DevelopmentYES Nature to Nei…LET'S GROW KIDS INC — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentLET'S GROW KIDS I…City Kids to Wilderness Project Inc — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentCity Kids to Wild…The Doug Coombs Foundation — $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE ALOHA FOUND…EARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL INC — $37,500 · Arts & CultureEARTHECHO INTE…PRO PUBLICA INC — $35,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA IN…THE EASTER ISLAND FOUNDATION — $17,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EASTER ISL…KQED INC — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureSIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP — $35,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA BU…AUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentAUDUBON C…GOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentGOODPOWER…TURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK — $10,000 · EnvironmentTURTLE IS…+1 more — $1,500 · EnvironmentWestern Resource Advocates — $44,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $1,000 · Crime & LegalTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY — $40,000 · Public Benefit
Other$315,500Youth Development$120,000Recreation & Sports$105,000Arts & Culture$99,500Environment$66,500Crime & Legal$45,500Public Benefit$40,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ALOHA FOUNDATION INC — $105,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetYES Nature to Neighborhoods — $55,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetWestern Resource Advocates — $44,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLET'S GROW KIDS INC — $40,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR PUBLIC INTEGRITY — $40,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetEARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL INC — $37,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA BUTTES TRAIL STEWARDSHIP — $35,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMIGRANT JUSTICE INC — $32,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetDays For Girls International — $30,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWomen's Reproductive Rights Assistance Project — $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCity Kids to Wilderness Project Inc — $20,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EASTER ISLAND FOUNDATION — $17,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR LOUISIANA — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTURTLE ISLAND RESTORATION NETWORK — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGEORGE & MICHAEL GARDNER FUND — $8,500 over 4y, 10% of budgetOak Grove Education Partners — $5,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCAPE COD TECH FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF GREEN CHIMNEYS — $4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetINEQUALITY MEDIA — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROTECT OUR WINTERS — $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBOTS IN SERVICE OF THE ENVIRONMENT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMusic In Schools Today — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Marin Community Found…PatagoniaorgThe San Francisco Fou…Rei Cooperative Actio…Lamb Weston Charitabl…Rockefeller Philanthr…Morgan Stanley Global…Gs Donor Advised Phil…National Philanthropi…Silicon Valley Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Network for Good
Marin Community FoundationCA18.1× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The San Francisco Foundation · Rei Cooperative Action Fund · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good

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 Cross Ridge Foundation Co Davidson Daw 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Migrant Justice Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Cross Ridge Foundation Co Davidson Daw?

Find your warmest path to Cross Ridge Foundation Co Davidson Daw 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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