How much did GEORGE AND RUTH BRADFORD FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of GEORGE AND RUTH BRADFORD FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

education mendoagriculture educationvictimsredwoodemergencysportscoast

2020

musicemergencyredwoodfirestemtripanderson valley

2021

redwoodfiremedicalanderson valleyscholarship

2022

food foodfood insecurespecialreliefscholarshipanderson valley

2023

food foodfood insecuremeals wheelsbuildingactivitiesreliefscholarship

2024

educationalmeals wheelssportsactivitiesequipmentmaintenancelivestock

2025

repairsspecialfood banksyouth activitieshealthequipmentscholarships

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k43 grants · $188k
$10k–50k13 grants · $158k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
UC DAVIS ADVANCEMENT SERVICES$10,000
MENDOCINO COUNTY FARM BUREAU$10,000
UKIAH SENIOR CENTER$10,000
MENDOCINO COUNTY FAIR$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF UKIAH$10,000
HOWARD HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION$10,000
LEARN ABOUT AG$9,000
FORT BRAGG FOOD BANK$8,000

02The need

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 (FY18–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17% — the area typically sits at 11%. 89% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.0M · 74 repeat orgs$310k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

74 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 31 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.0M

$141k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%

+31%

Still filing today

24%

30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesFood & NutritionHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

HO
HOSPICE OF UKIAH
8× · 2018–2025 · $149k · revenue +223%
US
UKIAH SENIOR CENTER
8× · 2018–2025 · $98k · revenue +57%
MC
MENDOCINO COUNTY FARM BUREAU
8× · 2018–2025 · $97k · revenue +84%

Funded once

PV
POTTER VALLEY YOUTH COMMUNITY CEN
one grant, 2020 · $20k
AV
ANDERSON VALLEY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT
one grant, 2024 · $13k
CB
CA BOUNTIFUL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2019 · $12k

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.

Redwood Coast Seniors Inc

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.

Human Services

Pajaro Valley Healthcare District

The organization has been formed by the community and governmental leaders to raise funds to form a hospital district in the County of Santa Cruz, CA that will purchase and operate Watsonville Community Hospital from its current owner and…

Health

Redwoods Rural Health Center Inc

Redwoods Rural Health Center provides primary, preventive low-cost medical, dental, behavioral health and acupuncture services to 7,411 patients through more than 38,832 visits this year.

Health

Healy Senior Center of Southern Humboldt Inc

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,…

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Mendocino Coast Clinics Inc

Mendocino Coast Clinics provides quality medical, dental and behavioral health care to all coastal residents, regardless of their ability to pay.

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McKinleyville Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Volunteer Fire Department

Public Safety & Disaster

Humboldt County Historical Association

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Redwood Coast Land Conservancy

We conserve lands for recreational, educational, ecological, agricultural, scenic and open space opportunities. We also develop and maintain public access ways and trails to the ocean, rivers and other natural or scenic features along…

Environment

Anderson Valley ElderHome

To create and administer a place where members of the elderly community can live independently and enjoy life in Boonville, California.

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Northern Santa Barbara County

Nsbcuw is organized to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities in northern santa barbara county, california. nsbcuw works with individuals and organizations to identify and resolve pressing community issues through its…

Philanthropy

Mendocino Community Health Clinic Inc

Mendocino community health clinic inc. provides medical, dental and behavioral health services to patients in mendocino and lake counties. our mission: to provide the highest quality health care to members in our communities.

Health

Mendocino Coast Hospitality Center

Provide basic services to the community's poor, those without food, and those without shelter.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Anderson Valley Health Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Pillsbury Firefighters Assoc. 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 35 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%1/37

the rest of the field

275/3,283

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.

05the grantee network

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

33/34

Grantees still filing

29/34

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,874,000Food & Nutrition$129,000Health$87,000Arts & Culture$66,000Education$47,000Human Services$46,000Public Safety & Disaster$28,000

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.

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.

Community Foundation of Mendocino CountyCA41.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · Tr Eriksen Trust Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: LAKE PILLSBURY FIREFIGHTERS ASSN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 824772914 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on LAKE PILLSBURY FIREFIGHTERS ASSN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 72% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to George and Ruth Bradford Foundation?

Find your warmest path to George and Ruth Bradford Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

GEORGE AND RUTH BRADFORD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to George and Ruth Bradford Foundation?

More from the funding graph

GEORGE AND RUTH BRADFORD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

34 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to George and Ruth Bradford Foundation?

More from the funding graph