How much did FREDA B RUNYON FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of FREDA B RUNYON FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

greenhousestaffgreatercovid pandemicrestaurantslaundry roomupper room

2021

scholarshipssuccesslaundry roomupper roomspace studentsgreat bikebike giveaway

2022

songsguitars vetsfireiddspeakersgreat bikebike giveaway

2023

bedroomcordova recreationrecreation parkssurplus foodcampsummerphysical disabilities

2024

playgroundofficercaninefood insecuritiescampsummerphysical disabilities

2025

burncreatingsocial mediacaninefishingpeerfood insecurities

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

HANDS 4 HOPE$5,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB EDC WESTERN SLOPE$4,000
LOAVES & FISHES MUSTARD SEED PROGRAM$4,000
THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE$3,890
UPPER ROOM DINING HALL$3,700
K-9 ARMOR$3,600
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE SIERRA FOOTHILLS$3,500
MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & CURIOSITY$3,500
FOOD BANK OF EL DORAD COUNTY$3,400
CATIES CLOSET$3,200
SOIL BORN FARMS$3,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NORCALEL DORADO$3,000
ANGEL FLIGHT NORTHEAST$3,000
SENIORS FIRST$3,000
FISHING FOR THE MISSION$2,857

02The need

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 (FY20–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 8%. 37% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

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

About 22% of FREDA B RUNYON FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 65% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

FREDA B RUNYON FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 3.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$339k · 39 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$339k

$123k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+113%

Still filing today

41%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionAnimalsEmploymentCivil RightsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

UR
UPPER ROOM DINING HALL
6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +490%
TL
TWIN LAKES FOOD BANK
4× · 2020–2025 · $12k · revenue +199%
SF
SENIORS FIRST
4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +98%

Funded once

M
MORE
one grant, 2020 · $8k
EF
EPPING FIREMENS ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2023 · $6k
FM
FAMILY MEAL SACRAMENTO
one grant, 2020 · $6k

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.

Foothill Dog Rescue of the Sierras

Foothill Dog Rescue is dedicated to re-homing dogs from high-kill shelters and dogs from owners who can no longer care for them.

Animals

High Sierra Animal Rescue Inc

High Sierra Animal Rescue is a no-kill shelter located in Portola California that is dedicated to saving the lives of homeless adoptable dogs that can no longer be held at county shelters. We are a nonprofit organization focused on…

Animals

Sierra Pacific Furbabies Inc

Sierra Pacific picks up, treat and places injured and abandoned animals.

Animals

Feeding It Forward Inc

Feeding It Forward works to reduce food waste and alleviate hunger in Napa County through collaborative efforts with other community-based organizations. We recover perishable and prepared food from over 50+ donors and deliver it to 40+…

Food & Nutrition

Wonder Dog Rescue

Wonder dog rescue was founded in 2004 to rescue any animal at risk of euthanasia due to health or behavior issues. we rescue animals throughout northern and central california.

Animals

Charities for Central California

The mission of the organization is to provide relief and assistance to disabled american veterans.

Human Services

Mission Flight

Our mission is to fly medical patients to critically needed appointments within California as well as to fly volunteer teams into remote, impoverished areas of Mexico. Our passion is to connect people who are isolated and in poverty with…

International

Patriots and Paws

Patriots and Paws help veterans and their families with furniture and small necessities needed, and provides them with a small animal for companion.

Human Services

Elk Grove Food Bank

To meet the basic emergency needs, food and clothing, of those in the elk grove community

Human Services

Sale Ranch Sanctuary

The purpose of Sale Ranch Animal Sanctuary is to rescue, rehabilitate and offer refuge to neglected and abused animals in the state of California.

Animals

The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter

Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of El Dorado County and the most unlike its peers is Gilmore Hero Foundation. 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.

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 19 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

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

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/45

the rest of the field

12%

22,290/186,933

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.

06the grantee network

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

34/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$354,151Human Services$62,526Food & Nutrition$31,313Animals$16,908Recreation & Sports$6,500Community Improvement$6,000Youth Development$5,007

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.

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.

Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA29.5× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · El Dorado Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Deacon Charitable Foundation · United Way California Capital · Placer Community Foundation · Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · California Foundation For · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings 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 organisation FREDA B RUNYON 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FIELD OF DREAMS INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~10 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 272464658 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FIELD OF DREAMS INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 10 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Freda B Runyon Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Freda B Runyon Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

FREDA B RUNYON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Freda B Runyon Foundation?

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FREDA B RUNYON FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Freda B Runyon Foundation?

More from the funding graph