· Private foundation
Giant's Causeway
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH COALITION | $9,000 |
| IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK | $9,000 |
| SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC | $9,000 |
| FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC | $9,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN EQUALITY | $9,000 |
| CENTRAL COAST ALLIANCE UNITED FOR A SUSTAINABLE EC | $9,000 |
| GROUNDWORK USA INC | $9,000 |
| COMMUNITY WATER CENTER | $9,000 |
| MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS | $9,000 |
| ASIAN PACIFIC ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK | $9,000 |
| COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT | $9,000 |
| TRANSGENDER LAW CENTER | $9,000 |
| FOODLINK FOR TULARE COUNTY INC | $9,000 |
| ALIANZA COACHELLA VALLEY | $9,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $5,091 |
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 (FY20–24, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Giant's Causeway’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- RFREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $51k · revenue +365%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC5× · 2020–2024 · $47k · revenue +21%- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $46k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- FIFOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INCone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +25%
KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INCone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +12%- WAWATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -27%
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.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Groundwork Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 37 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 REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mujeres Unidas y Activas ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM J BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Rape Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN) ↗
- Who funds Asian Pacific Environmental Network ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds Community Water Center ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds ALIANZA COACHELLA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Asian Law Caucus ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds Campaign For Southern Equality ↗
- Who funds Foodlink for Tulare County Inc ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Estuary Institute ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Environmental Health Coalition ↗
- Who funds SOLUTIONS JOURNALISM NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds IMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK USA INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE INTERNATIONAL COUNCIL ON CLEAN TRANSPORTATION INC ↗
- Who funds IFWHENHOW ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINGS COMMUNITY ACTION ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
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: The California Wellness Foundation · Tides Foundation · Women's Foundation of California · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The California Endowment · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Calfoods Logistics · California Association of Food Banks · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Liberty Hill 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 Giant's Causeway 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.
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% 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.