· Private foundation
Grace US
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $248k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $335k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EBEAUTY COMMUNITY INC | $150,000 |
| CANCER RESOURCE CNTRS OF MENDOCINO | $75,000 |
| TREES FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES | $50,000 |
| HEART OF THE REDWOODS COMMUNITY | $39,390 |
| Individual grant recipient | $36,000 |
| COASTAL HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| ABODE CONTEMPLATIVE CARE FOR THE DY | $25,000 |
| RECYLCLED YOUTH | $20,000 |
| SANCTUARY FOREST | $20,000 |
| NORTH BAY ROWING CLUB | $19,780 |
| CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT | $18,000 |
| REVIVE & THRIVE PROJECT | $18,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LOST COAST | $16,100 |
| MATTOLE RESTORATION COUNCIL | $10,240 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $913k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +99% since the first grant, against +81% for those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ECEBEAUTY COMMUNITY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +212% · 27% of their budget
- NBNORTH BAY ROWING CLUB8× · 2017–2024 · $290k · revenue +8% · 28% of their budget
- HOHeart of the Redwoods Community Hospice8× · 2017–2024 · $216k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SHSOUTHERN HUMBOLDT COMMUNITY HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $100k
- TSTHE SANCTUARYone grant, 2022 · $43k
- PSPetaluma Small Craft Centergraduatedone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue +81% · 41% of their budget
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.
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.
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
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…
Canopy collaborates with communities to grow and sustain equitable urban forests for all
Sonoma County Conservation Action's mission is to better our quality of life in Sonoma County for all generations, through educating and directly engaging the public on local environmental issues and policies using grassroots organizing.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
To empower communities to collaborate in monitoring the ecological conditions of the Eel River. To share information about the health of the watershed and to work together to formulate a restoration strategy.
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…
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…
CWC is pursuing its mission of protecting and preserving coastal watersheds through a strategic focus on the lower San Lorenzo River, transforming the river into a treasured community asset and destination that Santa Cruz is proud of.
To conserve and restore valuable natural resources of Mendocino County Region. Dedicated to providing public access to the coast & protecting working farmlands, forests, wildlife habitat, open space, scenic vistas & watersheds.
The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 36 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds EBEAUTY COMMUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER RESOURCE CENTERS OF MENDO CO ↗
- Who funds NORTH BAY ROWING CLUB ↗
- Who funds Heart of the Redwoods Community Hospice ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY FOREST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds ABODE CONTEMPLATIVE CARE ↗
- Who funds Revive & Thrive Project ↗
- Who funds MATTOLE RESTORATION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Trees Foundation ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates ↗
- Who funds COASTAL HEADWATERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds River Town Racers ↗
- Who funds University of Arizona Foundation ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE WRITERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds Petaluma Small Craft Center ↗
- Who funds PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE OAK FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Humboldt Area Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Grace US funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Grace US. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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