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Four Pines 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $330k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC | $300,000 |
| SCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCING TEAM INC | $60,000 |
| IVEY FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| TEACH FOR ALL INC | $60,000 |
| CHAMBER OF MOTHERS INC | $50,000 |
| BAY AREA HYBRID COLLEGE INITIATIVE | $50,000 |
| THE BRIGID ALLIANCE | $50,000 |
| MARIN COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION | $40,000 |
| NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| KINGMAKERS OF OAKLAND | $40,000 |
| CALMATTERS | $40,000 |
| GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| KIDDO MILL VALLEY SCHOOLS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| CORTE MADERA LARKSPUR SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE | $5,000 |
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 US giving — 84% of grant dollars ($1.9M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 16% that went abroad ($360k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $102k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Beyond the US — 16% of all-years giving ($360k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $355k 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
- AJAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $640k · revenue -10%
- IFIVEY FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $360k
- SMSCHOOLS MENTORING AND RESOURCING TEAM INC3× · 2022–2024 · $202k
Funded once
- UOUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue +59% · 94% of their budget
- AFAVENUES FOR JUSTICE INCone grant, 2023 · $42k · revenue +13%
- EIEdwell Incone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -49%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Teach for All Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foundation to Combat Anti-Semitism Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 11 years old; the field is 16. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
22 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. 22 of the 27 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 AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds Chamber of Mothers Inc ↗
- Who funds AVENUES FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds CalMatters ↗
- Who funds Kingmakers of Oakland ↗
- Who funds NORTH CAROLINA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Edwell Inc ↗
- Who funds CORTE MADERA LARKSPUR SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MISSION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AGENCY ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WATER JACKSON HOLE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF JACKSON HOLE ↗
- Who funds TETON LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION TO COMBAT ANTI-SEMITISM INC ↗
- Who funds KENYA EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Postpartum Support Center ↗
- Who funds The Doug Coombs Foundation ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Four Pines Charitable 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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