· Private foundation
George and Ruth Bradford 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k43 grants · $188k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $158k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLOWSHARES | $20,500 |
| HOSPICE OF UKIAH | $17,000 |
| WILLITS FOOD BANK | $13,000 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK | $13,000 |
| AV COMMUNITY SERVICES DISTRICT | $12,000 |
| REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK | $11,000 |
| SPACE | $11,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF UKIAH | $10,000 |
| UKIAH SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| UC DAVIS ADVANCEMENT SERVICES | $10,000 |
| MENDOCINO COUNTY FARM BUREAU | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOWARD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MENDO CTY | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $164k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 29 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, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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
- HOHOSPICE OF UKIAH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $155k · revenue +38%
- PPPLOWSHARES PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER7× · 2018–2024 · $112k · revenue +49%
- MCMENDOCINO COUNTY FARM BUREAU9× · 2017–2025 · $107k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- PVPOTTER VALLEY YOUTH COMMUNITY CENone grant, 2020 · $20k
- VFVOLUNTEER FLORIDA FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -61%
- KSKENTUCKY STATE TREASURERone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
To operate a community library for information retrieval and enjoyment by the general public.
Redwood Coast Seniors Inc. operates a senior center providing meals, transportation, day care, activities and support services that contribute to optimal wellness and healthy aging for all seniors on the Mendocino North Coast.
The Healy Senior Center supports independent, meaningful, dignified lives for older adults of Southern Humboldt County, CA through social interaction, recreation, Senior Dining and Home Delivered Meals, health and care maintenance,…
Redwoods Rural Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that provides primary, preventative healthcare services to all people without regard to social or economic status.
Mendocino Coast Clinics
Providing physical, emotional, practical and spiritual support for people and families who are dealing with life-threatening illness, the dying process, death and or bereavement of a loved one.
To conserve lands for recreational, educational, ecological, agricultural, scenic & open space opportunities. We develop & maintain public access ways & trails to the ocean, rivers & other natural or scenic features along coastal Mendocino…
The Community Center of Mendocino's main function is to provide after school enrichment programs for grade school children. Secondary function is to provide recreation.
To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.
We provided free healthy food to low-income families and individuals in need.
Activities within trinity, humboldt, del norte county, siskiyou and mendocino counties and to recruit and administer financial capital for such purposes.
Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Mendocino County and the most unlike its peers is Pomolita Middle School Pto Inc. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
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 147 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 HOSPICE OF UKIAH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLOWSHARES PEACE & JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO COUNTY FARM BUREAU ↗
- Who funds UKIAH SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANDERSON VALLEY HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LAKE PILLSBURY FIREFIGHTERS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds UKIAH VALLEY CULTURAL & REC CENTER ↗
- Who funds UKIAH VALLEY CHRISTMAS EFFORT ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Mendocino County ↗
- Who funds Anderson Valley Housing Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Anderson Valley ElderHome ↗
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: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · Tr Eriksen Trust Fund Co Shelly a Smith Trustee · East Bay Community Foundation · Tarbell Family Foundation · Ukiah Adventist Hospital · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Mendocino Coast Healthcare Foundation · Cleo Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · California Fire Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Marin Community Foundation
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 George and Ruth Bradford 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.
- Volunteer Florida Foundation Inc — 2% 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.