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Fullerton Family Foundation

FULLERTON FAMILY FOUNDATION ("fff") is a california nonprofit public benefit corporation organized as a supporting organization of the marin community foundation ("mcf").

$2.5M
Granted FY2018
45
Grants FY2018
4
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

91% of Fullerton Family Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Bingham Osborn & Scarborough Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 30 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Fullerton Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 43 organizations, $2M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

42
’17
43
’18
30
’19

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.

Philanthropy$24MEducation$5.2MArts & Culture$597kAnimals$445kYouth Development$285kHuman Services$217kHealth$199kEnvironment$55kOther$0
02FY2018 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k8 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k21 grants · $377k
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
$20,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAKING WAVES ACADEMY$1,000,000
POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY$115,036
HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC$110,000
10000 DEGREES$110,000
NEXT GENERATION SCHOLARS INC$100,000
EAST BAY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS$100,000
AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL$75,000
SUMMER SEARCH FOUNDATION$60,000
WILDCARE$54,000
ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH MUSIC$50,000
TEACH FOR AMERICA INC$50,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$50,000
NEW LEADERS FOR NEW SCHOOLS$50,000
GO PUBLIC SCHOOLS$50,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHASTA DIABLO INC$50,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–19, $512k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FEED THE HUNGRY INC: $15k → 6%Feed the Hungry Inc: $20k → 7%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $110k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $60k → 10%Huckleberry Youth Programs Inc: $10k → 10%MARIN LINK INC: $12k → 8%CANAL WELCOME CENTER INC: $10k → 8%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $5k → 10%CANAL WELCOME CENTER INC: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 10%MARIN LINK INC: $10k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 10%PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC: $50k → 8%PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC: $50k → 8%Parent Services Project Inc: $50k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.7M · 36 repeat orgs$350k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
11

Total granted

$6.7M
$235k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+60%

Still filing today

89%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentInternationalOther

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

  • MW
    MAKING WAVES ACADEMY
    3× · 2017–2019 · $3.0M · revenue +76%
  • 1D
    10000 DEGREES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $388k · revenue +175%
  • EB
    East Bay Center for the Performing Arts
    3× · 2017–2019 · $350k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CC
    CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $35k · revenue +155%
  • BA
    BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM
    one grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -19%
  • E
    EDVENTUREMOREgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +316%

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.

1
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
2
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
3
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
4
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
5
Mark Day School

Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.

—
6
Millennium School of San Francisco

See schedule oto realize the transformative potential of middle school. millennium school believes in developing each student to their fullest potential, this involves providing both a rigorous academic program and a science-based…

Education
7
Montessori De Terra Linda

Montessori de terra linda is a diverse community of teachers, parents and children working together for the education of the child, utilizing the methods of maria montessori. we serve children ages 2-12, providing a rich learning…

Education
8
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

—
9
Leadership Public Schools

Our mission is to create inclusive, empowering, and college-preparatory experiences that equip students to succeed in college, career, and as leaders in their communities.

Education
10
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
11
Kipp Bay Area Schools

Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose college, career, and beyond so they can lead fulfilling lives and…

Education
12
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Making Waves Academy and the most unlike its peers is Beyond Differences. 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 33 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr18%31%20–35yr13%25%35–55yr12%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%1%<5yr15%0%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr18%81%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr12%4%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/58
the rest of the field
12%
3,091/25,063

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.

04the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 58 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
37/51
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CERITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION — $24,397,837 · PhilanthropyCERITY PARTNERS FOUNDATION+1 more — $21,000 · PhilanthropyMAKING WAVES ACADEMY — $3,000,000 · EducationMAKING WAVES ACA…10000 DEGREES — $387,500 · Education10000 DEGREESNext Generation Scholars Inc — $250,000 · EducationNext Generation …AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL — $225,000 · Education+9 more — $640,000 · Education+9 moreEast Bay Center for the Performing Arts — $350,000 · Arts & CultureEnriching Lives Through Music — $130,000 · Arts & CultureMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $40,000 · Arts & CultureRichmond Art Center — $35,000 · Arts & CultureBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $12,000 · Arts & CultureHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $180,000 · Human ServicesPARENT SERVICES PROJECT — $150,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $100,000 · Human ServicesAMBASSADORS OF HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY — $43,000 · Human ServicesFEED THE HUNGRY INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesEDUCATE THE CHILDREN INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesMARIN LINK INC — $22,000 · Human ServicesThe Multicultural Center of Marin — $20,000 · Human Services+2 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesWILDCARE — $179,000 · OtherNOVATO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $45,000 · OtherWEST CONTRA COSTA UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT — $45,000 · OtherSUMMER SEARCH — $180,000 · OtherCONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC — $35,000 · OtherBridge the Gap College Prep — $118,500 · OtherMindful Life Project — $50,000 · OtherAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC — $55,000 · Other+14 more — $250,000 · OtherPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $240,000 · AnimalsPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $100,000 · HealthSQUARE PEG FOUNDATION — $80,000 · HealthVISION TO LEARN — $30,000 · HealthBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $25,000 · Health
Philanthropy$24,418,837Education$4,502,500Arts & Culture$597,000Human Services$595,000Other$957,500Animals$240,000Health$235,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMAKING WAVES ACADEMY — $3,000,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budget10000 DEGREES — $387,500 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetEast Bay Center for the Performing Arts — $350,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetNext Generation Scholars Inc — $250,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY — $240,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL — $225,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $180,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC — $180,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWILDCARE — $179,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT SERVICES PROJECT — $150,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetNEW LEADERS INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEnriching Lives Through Music — $130,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetBridge the Gap College Prep — $118,500 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetGO Public Schools — $100,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA — $100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH BRIDGE ACADEMY — $60,000 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMindful Life Project — $50,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAMBASSADORS OF HOPE AND OPPORTUNITY — $43,000 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetMARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY — $40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetFEED THE HUNGRY INC — $35,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetRichmond Art Center — $35,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC — $35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVISION TO LEARN — $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATE THE CHILDREN INC — $30,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDVENTUREMORE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMIGOS DE LAS AMERICAS MARIN CHAPTER — $25,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN LINK INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Multicultural Center of Marin — $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWORLDREADERORG — $18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PTA ALVARADO SCHOOL — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNEPAL YOUTH FOUNDATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeyond Differences — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

Marin Community Found…Leonard & Beryl Buck …The San Francisco Fou…Bothin FoundationJewish Community Fede…Chamberlin Education …Silicon Valley Commun…Fenwick FoundationPeter E Haas Jr Famil…The Morris Stulsaft F…United Way of the Bay…The California Endowm…
Marin Community FoundationCA61.6× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Chamberlin Education Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Fenwick Foundation · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The California Endowment

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 Fullerton Family 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Fullerton Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Fullerton Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 58 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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