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G Fredrick 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.

$702k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$1.3MInternational$1.3MCivil Rights$659kHuman Services$572kPhilanthropy$525kRecreation & Sports$520kFood & Nutrition$367kArts & Culture$316kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $257k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $189k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$20,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$675k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMPOWER ME ACADEMY$250,000
OSA CONSERVATION$139,000
INNOCEANA$50,000
HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT$40,000
MUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL$40,000
AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA$32,000
INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC$25,000
ONE TREE PLANTED$25,000
CLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY$20,000
EARTH UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$15,000
GRASSROOTS AID PARTNERSHIP$15,000
SFFILM$15,000
HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT$10,000
NORTH STAR FUND$10,000
HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $477k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%WIN WIN GIVE INC: $200k → 10%SOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND: $40k → 13%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $40k → 8%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $40k → 8%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $40k → 8%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $30k → 8%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $27k → 8%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $20k → 8%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $20k → 8%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $10k → 8%HUMAN NEEDS PROJECT: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
VT
WA
MN
NY
MA
OH
PA
CA
CO
MD
AZ
NC
DC
GA
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.3M · 29 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

29 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
20

Total granted

$4.3M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
0%

Still filing today

79%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
InternationalPhilanthropyArts & CultureEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GI
    GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC
    6× · 2017–2022 · $341k · revenue +189%
  • HN
    Human Needs Project Inc
    7× · 2017–2024 · $237k · revenue +45%
  • AO
    AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $219k · revenue +145%

Funded once

  • RC
    REDFORD CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue -38%
  • WW
    WIN WIN GIVE INC
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue -99%
  • CT
    CRADLE TO CRADLE PRODUCTS INNOVATIO INSTITUTE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $170k · revenue +104%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Global Forest Generation

Global Forest Generation restores and protects forest ecosystems in partnership with grassroots leaders and local communities across vast landscapes which play a critical role in preserving water, protecting biodiversity, storing carbon,…

Environment
2
Eden Peopleplanet

To offer the dignity of fair employment to people living in impoverished communities, who become transformational agents of global forest restoration.

International
3
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
4
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
5
New Roots Institute

New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.

Food & Nutrition
6
Climate Foundation

To research and develop healthy climate solutions comprising global food security, ecosystem regeneration and carbon balance in seas and soils.

Science & Tech
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
9
International Rivers Network

International Rivers protects rivers and defends the rights of communities that depend on them.

Environment
10
Groundswell International Inc

Groundswell International strenghtens communities to build healthy farming and food systems from the ground up.

International
11
Nuru International

Nuru is a global collective that enables inclusive and sustainable prosperity by identifying communities at the stability tipping point, strengthening rural livelihoods and market systems, and fostering stabilizing connections that repair…

International
12
Reforest the Tropics Incorporated

Development of programs to offset personal and corporate carbon emissions through reforestation in the tropics.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grassroots International Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sagrada Botanical Gardens. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 59 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
33/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

OSA CONSERVATION: $244,000 · OtherOSA CONSERVATIONCRADLE TO CRADLE PRODUCTS INNOVATIO INSTITUTE INC: $170,000 · OtherCRADLE TO CRADLE PRODUCTS INNOVATIO INS…NORTH STAR FUND INC: $149,000 · OtherNORTH STAR FUND INCSan Francisco Film Society: $145,000 · OtherSan Francisco Film SocietyAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $140,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP F…INNOCEANA: $140,000 · OtherINNOCEANABread and Roses Community Fund: $103,000 · OtherM4BLCOMMON COUNSEL FOUNDATION: $93,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $90,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY GREENHOUSE PARTNERS: $90,000 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH AMERICA: $85,000 · OtherPROJECT BIOME INC: $150,000 · OtherPROJECT BIOME INC+20 more: $546,000 · Other+20 moreGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $340,900 · InternationalGRASSROOTS INTERNATION…AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $219,000 · InternationalAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA I…THOUSAND CURRENTS: $212,800 · InternationalTHOUSAND CURRENTSOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC: $170,000 · InternationalOPERATION CALIFORNIA I…Alliance for Global Justice Corp: $140,000 · InternationalAlliance for Global Ju…EARTH University Foundation Inc: $60,000 · International+4 more: $62,500 · InternationalONE TREE PLANTED INC: $295,000 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLAN…TIDES FOUNDATION: $200,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDAT…Groundswell Fund: $132,000 · PhilanthropyGroundswell F…RESOURCE GENERATION INC: $73,400 · PhilanthropyRESOURCE GENE…NOVO MUNDO FOUNDATION: $30,000 · PhilanthropyREDFORD CENTER INC: $250,000 · EnvironmentREDFORD CEN…GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $238,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREE…AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN: $97,000 · EnvironmentAGRICULTURA…Sagrada Botanical Gardens: $30,000 · EnvironmentEmpower Me Academy: $520,000 · Recreation & SportsEmpower M…Human Needs Project Inc: $237,000 · Human ServicesWIN WIN GIVE INC: $200,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHERN PARTNERS FUND INC: $40,000 · Human ServicesMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL: $292,250 · Arts & CultureAUBIN PICTURES INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY: $70,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$2,145,400International$1,205,200Philanthropy$730,400Environment$615,000Recreation & Sports$520,000Human Services$477,000Arts & Culture$463,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEmpower Me Academy: $520,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC: $340,900 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $295,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC HEALS INTERNATIONAL: $292,250 over 7y, 53% of budgetREDFORD CENTER INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $238,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetHuman Needs Project Inc: $237,000 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $219,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetTHOUSAND CURRENTS: $212,800 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $200,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION CALIFORNIA INC: $170,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCRADLE TO CRADLE PRODUCTS INNOVATIO INSTITUTE INC: $170,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetPROJECT BIOME INC: $150,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetNORTH STAR FUND INC: $149,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society: $145,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetINNOCEANA: $140,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetAlliance for Global Justice Corp: $140,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetGroundswell Fund: $132,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetBread and Roses Community Fund: $103,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAUBIN PICTURES INC: $100,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetAGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN: $97,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY GREENHOUSE PARTNERS: $90,000 over 4y, 36% of budgetRESOURCE GENERATION INC: $73,400 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetCLEVELAND FILM SOCIETY: $70,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPROTEUS FUND INC: $70,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEARTH University Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNATIVE MOVEMENT: $57,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetRESIST INC: $47,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WE DREAM NETWORK INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC: $45,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSOCIAL JUSTICE FUND NORTHWEST: $35,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSagrada Botanical Gardens: $30,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCORE COMMUNITY ORGANIZED RELIEF EFFORT: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $22,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRASSROOTS AID PARTNERSHIP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VOICES PROJECT USA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHERWOOD FORESTRY SERVICE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR NATURE CONSERVATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ANIMAL RESCUE US INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRedwood Lions Memorial Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetABADA-CAPOEIRA SAN FRANCISCO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

ImpactassetsincTides FoundationThe Chicago Community…Marin Community Found…Jewish Communal FundAmalgamated Charitabl…The Robert Wood Johns…The San Francisco Fou…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Surdna Foundation IncSilicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…
ImpactassetsincMD17.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Surdna Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization G Fredrick Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from G Fredrick Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to G Fredrick Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 59 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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