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Forni Family Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Forni Family Charitable 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.

$70k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Environment$286kEducation$45kHuman Services$20kRecreation & Sports$14kHealth$13kYouth Development$6kAnimals$5kFood & Nutrition$5k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$3,243
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLEAN REEF$50,000
LITTLE TROOPERS RANCH$5,000
SANTA ROSA CHARITIES$5,000
FRIENDS OF TRIONE ANADEL PARK$3,243
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII$2,000
CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL$1,600
GREAT BRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL$104
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%GG FRIENDS OF TRIONE: $4k → 9%ALSACST JUDE CHILDERN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL: $845 → 10%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%GREAT BRIDGE HIGH SCHOOL: $104 → 9%FRIENDS OF TRIONE ANADEL PARK: $3k → 9%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: $5k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%FRIENDS OF TRIONE-ANNADEL: $3k → 9%NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: $4k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%FRIENDS OF TRIONE-ANNADEL: $2k → 9%NATIONAL MS SOCIETY: $1k → 10%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%LITTLE TROOPERS RANCH: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $2k → 9%CLEAN REEF: $50k → 9%UH FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%CLEAN REEF: $50k → 9%CLEAN REEF: $50k → 9%CLEAN REEF: $45k → 9%CLEAN REEF: $40k → 9%CLEAN REEF: $35k → 9%CLEAN REEF: $15k → 9%SONOMA EARTH SCHOOL: $200 → 9%CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $19k → 9%CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 9%CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $6k → 9%SANTA ROSA CHARITIES: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 9%SONOMA COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES: $5k → 9%CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $2k → 9%CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $1k → 9%TEAM SWIFT: $200 → 9%GIRLS ON THE RUN SONOMA COUNTY: $500 → 9%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 75% of Forni Family Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 23%.

Forni Family Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$366k · 6 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

$366k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+72%

Still filing today

33%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Recreation & SportsEnvironmentAnimalsEducationHealthReligionOther
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

  • CR
    CLEAN REEFS
    7× · 2018–2024 · $285k · revenue +10% · 100% of their budget
  • CN
    CARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL
    5× · 2020–2024 · $34k
  • CC
    Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties
    4× · 2020–2023 · $20k · revenue -5%

Funded once

  • SC
    SONOMA COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +109%
  • GF
    GG FRIENDS OF TRIONE
    one grant, 2019 · $4k
  • HF
    HIGH FIVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
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.

1
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
2
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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3
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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4
Elkhorn Slough Foundation

The Elkhorn Slough Foundation's mission is to conserve and restore Elkhorn Slough and its watershed, California's largest tidal salt marsh south of San Francisco Bay. Renowned for its extraordinary biodiversity, Elkhorn Slough features a…

Philanthropy
5
Sos Rhino
Animals
6
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
7
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
8
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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9
Texas State Aquarium Association

The texas state aquarium's mission is engaging people with animals, inspiring appreciation for our seas, and supporting wildlife conservation. its vision is to be a global leader in fostering support for the conservation of the gulf of…

Animals
10
Ocean Genome Atlas Project

The Ocean Genome Atlas Project OGAP aims to collect, classify, sequence and map the genomic information of organisms representing at least 80 of the extant marine species worldwide. Deploying a fleet of advanced but cost effective research…

Science & Tech
11
Sustainable Ocean and Reefs Inc

Our mission at Sustainable Oceans and Reefs (SOAR) is to incorporate collaborative approaches to achieve our overarching goal of restoring and conserving coral reefs. We accomplish this by embracing sustainability, holistic perspectives,…

Environment
12
Adopt-a-Scientist
Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is American Lebanese Syrian Associated Charities Inc; the most unlike its peers is Clean Reefs. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 19 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CLEAN REEFS: $285,312 · EnvironmentCLEAN REEFSCARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOOL: $34,367 · OtherCARDINAL NEWMAN HIGH SCHOO…Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $20,000 · OtherCatholic Charities San Ber…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS: $11,560 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSI…UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII: $10,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF HAWAIISANTA ROSA CHARITIES: $5,000 · OtherSANTA ROSA CHARITIESFRIENDS OF TRIONE-ANNADEL: $4,500 · OtherGG FRIENDS OF TRIONE: $4,010 · Other+4 more: $2,535 · OtherSONOMA COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsFriends of Trione-Annadel State Park: $3,243 · Recreation & SportsLittle Trooper Ranch: $5,000 · AnimalsUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $1,000 · EducationNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,000 · HealthAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $845 · ReligionSONOMA EARTH SCHOOL: $200 · Arts & Culture
Environment$285,312Other$91,972Recreation & Sports$8,243Animals$5,000Education$1,000Health$1,000Religion$845Arts & Culture$200

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCLEAN REEFS: $285,312 over 7y, 100% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHARITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLittle Trooper Ranch: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetFriends of Trione-Annadel State Park: $3,243 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $845 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGirls on the Run Sonoma County: $500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSONOMA EARTH SCHOOL: $200 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Forni Family Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Forni Family Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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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