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Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation at a glance

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Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family 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.

$205k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$63k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$583kReligion$349kHealth$312kArts & Culture$17kRecreation & Sports$9kEnvironment$7kHousing & Shelter$3kCommunity Improvement$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $113k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES$63,333
SANSUM CLINIC$50,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$35,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA$25,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$10,000
CENTRAL COAST OCEAN ADVENTURES$5,000
LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO$5,000
CATALINA MUSEUM FOR ART AND HISTORY$5,000
SANTA BARBARA COTTAGE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
CATALINA ISLAND WOMEN'S FORUM$1,000
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–23, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 17%EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $10k → 17%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$781k · 13 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
3

Total granted

$781k
$7k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+504%

Still filing today

62%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHousing & ShelterArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SC
    SANSUM CLINIC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $265k · revenue +20%
  • BC
    Bowdoin College
    5× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +38%
  • SB
    Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +52%
  • AO
    Auxiliary of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdalegraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +504%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
    one grant, 2020 · $500
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
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
2
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
4
The Corporation of Saint Mary's College Notre Dame

The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)

Education
5
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
6
California Lutheran University

The mission of the university is to educate leaders for a global society who are strong in character and judgment, confident in their identity and vocation, and committed to service and justice.

Education
7
Trustees of Boston College

Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…

Education
8
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health
9
Universidad Del Sagrado Corazon Inc

The universidad del sagrado corazon (sagrado) is an independent, nonprofit, catholic university, committed to the education of the whole person through strong foundation in the liberal arts. sagrado is part of puerto ricos oldest private,…

Education
10
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
11
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
12
Loma Linda University

Loma linda university, a seventh-day adventist christian health sciences institution, seeks to further the healing and teaching ministry of jesus christ "to make man whole" by: - educating ethical and proficient christian health…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History; the most unlike its peers is Auxiliary of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale. 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

14 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. 14 of the 20 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
14/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIATHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $235,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR…Bowdoin College: $70,000 · EducationBowdoin CollegeTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $27,500 · EducationTHE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LOS ANGELES: $319,166 · OtherTHE EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF LOS A…+8 more: $27,200 · Other+8 moreSANSUM CLINIC: $265,000 · HealthSANSUM CLINICSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $45,000 · HealthSanta Barbara Cottage Hospi…EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $30,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL COAST OCEAN ADVENTURES INC: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 · Housing & ShelterCATALINA ISLAND WOMENS FORUM: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Education$582,500Other$346,366Health$310,000Human Services$30,000Youth Development$5,000Arts & Culture$5,000Housing & Shelter$3,000Community Improvement$2,000

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 budgetSANSUM CLINIC: $265,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $250,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $235,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $70,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Barbara Cottage Hospital Foundation: $45,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LATIN SCHOOL OF CHICAGO: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $6,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL COAST OCEAN ADVENTURES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA BARBARA MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCATALINA ISLAND WOMENS FORUM: $2,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCASA DEL HERRERO: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAuxiliary of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Scottsdale: $1,200 over 1y, 3.4% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Geoffrey Claflin & Alison Wrigley Rusack 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 20 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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