· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 22% of Freda B Runyon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
46 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. 46 of the 93 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Project Ride Inc ↗
- Who funds ABILITY FOUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ANGEL FLIGHT OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Catie's Closet Inc ↗
- Who funds SOS OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds California Careforce ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds NO TIME TO WASTE ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Freda B Runyon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Freda B Runyon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Catie's Closet Inc: 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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