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Firedoll Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
113
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$100k
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 FY2018–2025.

Environment$3.4MCrime & Legal$2.5MCivil Rights$1.5MInternational$1.1MHealth$846kAnimals$802kFood & Nutrition$715kHousing & Shelter$680kOther$0
02FY2025 · 113 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k108 grants · $2.7M
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$25,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$8.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Social Good Fund$100,000
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice$50,000
Mathematical Sciences Research Institute$50,000
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant$45,000
Praxis Peace Institute$40,000
New Isreal Fund$40,000
Common Counsel Foundation$35,000
Loaves & Fishes of Contra Costa$30,000
Rose Foundation$30,000
Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay$30,000
Center for Food Safety$30,000
Institute For Justice & Democracy In Haiti$30,000
Bread Project$30,000
Planned Parenthood$30,000
Alameda County Public Defender's Office$30,000
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:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $854k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Plumas Audubon Society: $16k → 13%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $20k → 14%CENTER FOR EMERGING FUTURES: $22k → 8%Covenant House California: $20k → 14%Covenant House California: $20k → 14%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $20k → 10%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $15k → 14%Start Small Think Big: $25k → 17%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $15k → 10%Trinity Center of Walnut Creek: $30k → 9%Jubilee Immigration Advocates: $15k → 10%Trinity Center of Walnut Creek: $30k → 9%International Refugee Assistance Project: $20k → 17%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCES CENTER: $25k → 10%TRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK: $30k → 9%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 10%TRINITY CENTER OF WALNUT CREEK: $25k → 9%THE MULTICULTURAL INTITUTE: $15k → 10%TRINITY CENTER OF WALNUT CREEK: $20k → 9%THE MULTICULTURAL INTITUTE: $15k → 10%TRINITY CENTER OF WALNUT CREEK: $20k → 9%MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE: $15k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 10%Immigrant Legal Resource Center: $25k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $25k → 10%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $20k → 9%Pomeroy Recreation & Rehab Center: $20k → 10%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $15k → 9%Pomeroy Recreation & Rehab Center: $18k → 10%BERKELEY FOOD & HOUSING PROJECT: $23k → 10%POMEROY RECREATION & REHAB CENTER: $3k → 10%POMEROY RECREATION & REHAB CENTER: $3k → 10%White Pony Express: $25k → 9%East Bay Spanish Speaking Citizens Foundation: $15k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $25k → 10%Beyond Emancipation: $25k → 10%Beyond Emancipation: $25k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $20k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $15k → 10%African Advocacy Network: $20k → 10%Insight Housing: $25k → 10%Insight Housing: $25k → 10%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

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AZ
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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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$13M · 136 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

136 repeat relationships — 93 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

136
37

Total granted

$13M
$738k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+7%

Still filing today

78%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $342k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalInternationalEmploymentCivil RightsOther

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

  • EB
    EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER
    6× · 2019–2025 · $270k · revenue +4%
  • EB
    EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT
    6× · 2019–2025 · $193k · revenue +132%
  • WE
    WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER
    7× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • CE
    CSU EAST BAY FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $32k
  • AC
    ALAMEDA CO PUBLIC DEFENDER'S OFFICE
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • TO
    THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -5%

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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
4
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
5
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
6
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
9
Ecology Action of Santa Cruz

The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…

Environment
10
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
11
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
12
Asian Pacific Environmental Network

APEN builds immigrant and refugee power for a just transition with local roots and statewide impact so all people can live, work, learn, play and thrive in a clean and healthy environment.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is As You Sow and the most unlike its peers is Canticle Farm. 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 backsteadyImmigrant Worker SupportYouth Development ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Lgbtq+ Community SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Food Banks and PantriesCancer Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Christian Missionary Organi…Local Food System Organizat…Policy Research and AdvocacyEnvironmental Conservation …
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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%41%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr13%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%44%20–35yr11%28%35–55yr13%11%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/149
the rest of the field
14%
26,002/186,829

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

146 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. 146 of the 197 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
47
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/146
Grantees still filing
106/146
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

+125 more — $8,259,439 · Other+125 moreKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER — $182,500 · EnvironmentKLAMATH-SISKI…GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC — $165,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL JUSTIC…Pesticide Action Network North America — $140,000 · EnvironmentPesticide Act…PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC — $130,000 · EnvironmentPUBLIC EMPLOY…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $125,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOU…Earth Island Institute Inc — $115,000 · EnvironmentEarth Island …Beyond Pesticides — $105,000 · EnvironmentBeyond Pestic…GREENPEACE FUND INC — $100,000 · EnvironmentGREENPEACE FU…The Sierra Fund — $90,000 · EnvironmentSANCTUARY FOREST INC — $85,000 · EnvironmentSALMON RIVER RESTORATION COUNCIL — $70,000 · EnvironmentBaykeeper — $60,000 · Environment+11 more — $387,500 · Environment+11 moreEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER — $270,000 · Crime & LegalEAST BAY C…CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY — $178,500 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR…Pangea Legal Services — $175,000 · Crime & LegalPangea Leg…LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $160,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL SERV…SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE — $147,500 · Crime & LegalSOCIAL JUS…EAST BAY CHILDRENS LAW OFFICES INC — $109,000 · Crime & LegalEAST BAY C…Oasis Legal Services — $90,000 · Crime & LegalOasis Lega…CENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA — $75,000 · Crime & LegalCENTRO LEG…KIND INC — $65,000 · Crime & LegalCenter for Immigrant Protection — $47,500 · Crime & Legal+1 more — $15,000 · Crime & LegalA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $165,000 · InternationalINSTITUTE JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI INC — $165,000 · InternationalPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC — $150,000 · InternationalSea Turtle Conservancy — $135,000 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING — $130,000 · InternationalMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $115,000 · InternationalAMERICAN NEAR EAST REFUGEE AID — $60,000 · InternationalUNRWA USA NATIONAL COMMITTEE INC — $50,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $50,000 · International+2 more — $42,000 · InternationalTRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK — $155,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $125,000 · Human ServicesBEYOND EMANCIPATION — $110,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA — $110,000 · Human ServicesInsight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project — $72,500 · Human ServicesWHITE PONY EXPRESS — $60,000 · Human ServicesMULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE — $45,000 · Human ServicesPomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center — $43,000 · Human Services+7 more — $133,000 · Human ServicesENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION — $165,000 · AnimalsDefenders of Wildlife — $150,000 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $140,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $125,000 · AnimalsCALIFORNIA TROUT INC — $100,604 · AnimalsGREATER FARALLONES ASSOCIATION — $90,000 · AnimalsCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $150,000 · Civil RightsPraxis Peace Institute — $138,000 · Civil RightsREPRIEVE (US) — $125,000 · Civil RightsFreedom for Immigrants — $110,000 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER — $87,500 · Civil RightsCourt Appointed Special Advocates — $25,000 · Civil Rights
Other$8,259,439Environment$1,755,000Crime & Legal$1,332,500International$1,062,000Human Services$853,500Animals$770,604Civil Rights$635,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER — $270,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetEAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT — $192,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $190,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetKLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER — $182,500 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetAS YOU SOW — $182,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center — $180,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetSIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE — $180,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS — $180,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY — $178,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetPangea Legal Services — $175,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetGLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC — $165,000 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION — $165,000 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetA JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE — $165,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetINSTITUTE JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI INC — $165,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC — $160,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $160,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK — $155,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $150,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMarin Brain Injury Network Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery — $150,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetDefenders of Wildlife — $150,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPLOUGHSHARES FUND INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE — $147,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION — $140,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Environmental Health — $140,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSHELTER INC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER — $140,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPesticide Action Network North America — $140,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetPraxis Peace Institute — $138,000 over 7y, 53% of budgetSea Turtle Conservancy — $135,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCenter for Food Safety — $130,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC — $130,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING — $130,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetMONUMENT IMPACT — $129,500 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSTUDENTS FOR A FREE TIBET INC — $125,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD & WATER WATCH — $125,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetREPRIEVE (US) — $125,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetSustainable Economies Law Center — $124,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTAXPAYERS FOR COMMON SENSE — $122,500 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetACCE Institute — $120,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF COMBATANTS FOR PEACE INC — $117,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetEden I & R Inc — $117,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc — $115,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE — $115,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetProspera Community Development — $115,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCALIFORNIA COLLABORATIVE FOR IMMIGRANT JUSTICE — $112,500 over 3y, 1.6% 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.

  • Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds EAST BAY SANCTUARY COVENANT ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds KLAMATH-SISKIYOU WILDLANDS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds AS YOU SOW ↗
  • Who funds Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center ↗
  • Who funds SIMONS LAUFER MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds WILDEARTH GUARDIANS ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY ↗
  • Who funds Pangea Legal Services ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL JUSTICE ECOLOGY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds ENDANGERED SPECIES COALITION ↗
  • Who funds A JEWISH VOICE FOR PEACE ↗
  • Who funds INSTITUTE JUSTICE AND DEMOCRACY IN HAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
  • Who funds Marin Brain Injury Network Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery ↗
  • Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
  • Who funds PLOUGHSHARES FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL JUSTICE COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds COMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Center for Environmental Health ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Pesticide Action Network North America ↗
  • Who funds Praxis Peace Institute ↗
  • Who funds Sea Turtle Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds Center for Food Safety ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESPONSIBILITY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR MIDDLE EAST UNDERSTANDING ↗
  • Who funds MONUMENT IMPACT ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds STUDENTS FOR A FREE TIBET INC ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Marin Community Found…PatagoniaorgThe James Irvine Foun…San Jose Mercury News…United Way of the Bay…The Zellerbach Family…Clif Family FoundationSunlight GivingResources Legacy FundThe California Wellne…
The San Francisco FoundationCA78.4× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The James Irvine Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · United Way of the Bay Area · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Sunlight Giving · Resources Legacy Fund · The California Wellness 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 Firedoll 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%4%15%34%60%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
51report 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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Firedoll Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Firedoll 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.

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 197 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.

Source object · view filing

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines