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Fontana Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$5k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$164kAnimals$111kHealth$8kEnvironment$8kPhilanthropy$6kScience & Tech$5kArts & Culture$5kHousing & Shelter$3kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$5,115
Median grant
1
States reached
$75k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Battery Foundation$5,115
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–18, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MARIN LINK: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
OH
CA
MD
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$244k · 8 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +27% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
22

Total granted

$244k
$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+27%

Still filing today

88%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’24
EducationAnimalsArts & CultureEnvironmentScience & TechHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MC
    MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL
    4× · 2017–2020 · $68k · revenue +4%
  • Northwestern University
    2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +41%
  • PC
    PINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +54%

Funded once

  • SO
    ST OLAF COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $22k · revenue +37%
  • KS
    KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MGMT
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • BF
    B612 Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +142%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
5
San Francisco University High School

At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.

Education
6
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
7
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
8
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
9
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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10
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
11
Harvey Mudd College

HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…

Education
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President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ucla Foundation; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Jazz Organization. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 33 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $67,545 · EducationMARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLST OLAF COLLEGE: $22,125 · EducationST OLAF COLLEGEPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · EducationPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $107,000 · AnimalsSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY+2 more: $3,500 · AnimalsNorthwestern University: $30,000 · Recreation & SportsNorthweste…EDGEWOOD HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherEDGEWOOD HIGH…KELLOGG SCHOOL OF MGMT: $5,000 · OtherKELLOGG SCHOO…SAN FRANCISCO PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $5,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO…SF SYMPHONY FUND: $1,500 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $1,500 · OtherH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 · OtherH LEE MOFFITT…BROWARD PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $2,500 · OtherBROWARD PARTN…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $2,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS …Friends for Health in Haiti Inc: $1,500 · Other+8 more: $4,950 · Other+8 moreNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $7,000 · EnvironmentCLIMATE RIDE INC: $500 · EnvironmentTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $5,115 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $500 · PhilanthropyB612 Foundation: $5,000 · Science & TechAMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY: $250 · Science & Tech
Education$117,670Animals$110,500Recreation & Sports$30,000Other$36,950Environment$7,500Philanthropy$5,615Science & Tech$5,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $107,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMARIN COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $67,545 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNorthwestern University: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST OLAF COLLEGE: $22,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPINE CREST PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION: $5,115 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetB612 Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWARD PARTNERSHIP FOR THE HOMELESS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetH LEE MOFFITT CANCER CENTER AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF BROWARD COUNTY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTAM HIGH FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFriends for Health in Haiti Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILDAID INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPATH: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN LINK INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCLIMATE RIDE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTectonic Theater Project Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE GRADUATES OF THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAIRTOSTAY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN PHYSICAL SOCIETY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Shell USA Company Fou…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Ayco Charitable F…Baird Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Jewish Communal Fund
The San Francisco FoundationCA16.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fontana Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fontana Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc: 5% of income from government
  • American Physical Society: 1% of income from government
  • Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 33 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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