· Private foundation
Freda B Runyon Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HANDS 4 HOPE | $5,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES MUSTARD SEED PROGRAM | $4,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB EDC WESTERN SLOPE | $4,000 |
| THE FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE | $3,890 |
| UPPER ROOM DINING HALL | $3,700 |
| K-9 ARMOR | $3,600 |
| MUSEUM OF SCIENCE & CURIOSITY | $3,500 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE SIERRA FOOTHILLS | $3,500 |
| FOOD BANK OF EL DORAD COUNTY | $3,400 |
| CATIES CLOSET | $3,200 |
| SOIL BORN FARMS | $3,000 |
| ANGEL FLIGHT NORTHEAST | $3,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NORCALEL DORADO | $3,000 |
| SENIORS FIRST | $3,000 |
| FISHING FOR THE MISSION | $2,857 |
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 human-services grants (FY20–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- URUPPER ROOM DINING HALL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +127%
- SBSOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT4× · 2021–2025 · $14k · revenue +105%
- SFSENIORS FIRST INC4× · 2022–2025 · $12k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- MMOREone grant, 2020 · $8k
- EFEPPING FIREMENS ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · $6k
- FMFAMILY MEAL SACRAMENTOone grant, 2020 · $6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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 is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…
To improve the lives of our nations warriors (veterans, first responders, peace officers, and their families) by helping them build a new mission and purpose in life, support their recovery and reintegration, and empower them to accomplish…
Wonder dog rescue was founded to rescue any animal at risk of euthanasia due to health or behavior issues. we rescue animals throughout northern and central california with a special focus on special needs and hospice animals
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…
The tahoe nordic search and rescue team (tnsar) ... was conceived in 1976 as a response to the death of a boy lost off the back side of northstar-at-tahoe ski area during a blizzard. there was, at the time, no organized backcountry team to…
Sierra Pacific picks up, treat and places injured and abandoned animals.
High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…
We provided free healthy food to low-income families and individuals in need.
Norcal Golden Retriever Rescue is an all-volunteer organization that has rescued and found permanent, loving homes for Golden Retrievers and Golden Retriever mixes since its inception in 1994. Through the dedicated work of its foster…
Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.
Camp Revolution provides a safe, fun and motivational overnight outdoor camping experience for differently-abled teens and adults. Our goal is to empower each camper with confidence, boost self-esteem, experience outdoor adventures and…
Our mission is to provide homebound older adults with low income with nutritious food box delivery. Additionally, our food distribution program provides food to all in the communities we serve who need a helping hand. Our programs aim to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Union Gospel Mission and the most unlike its peers is Golden Eagle Softball Association Gesa. 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.
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 20 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 93 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 UPPER ROOM DINING HALL INC ↗
- Who funds SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Twin Lakes Food Bank ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Sierra Foothills ↗
- Who funds SENIORS FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA WILDLIFE RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of El Dorado County ↗
- Who funds ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Project Ride Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds California Careforce ↗
- Who funds SOS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds FIELD OF DREAMS INC ↗
- Who funds Stephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP ↗
- Who funds EPPING FIREMENS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR WOMEN WARRIORS ↗
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · El Dorado Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Deacon Charitable Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Placer Community Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Carlsen Muir Family Foundation · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Sutter Valley Hospitals
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 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.
- Catie's Closet Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
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.