· Private foundation
Helen J Urban & Thomas Nelson Urban Charitable Foundation IV
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHASTA DIABLO INC | $6,098 |
| RANDOLPH SCHOOL | $5,157 |
| MONTALVO ARTS CENTER | $5,000 |
| COLLEGE OF VISUAL AND PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| JULIA MORGAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN | $5,000 |
| CRANBROOK ACADEMY OF ART | $5,000 |
| ATHENIAN SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ACCESS FUND | $4,216 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA | $4,120 |
| YOUTH BEAT | $4,064 |
| EAST BAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC | $2,073 |
| DES MOINES ART CENTER | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of your 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.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TATHE ATHENIAN SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +35%
RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN9× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +42%- PPPlanned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SSYRACUSEone grant, 2024 · $5k
- COCOLLEGE OF VISABLE AND PERFORMING ARTS-SYRACUSEone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TOTHE OAKLAND FUNDone grant, 2024 · $4k
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.
See detailed description of organization's primary mission provided on schedule o
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
Redwood day inspires students to reach for their next challenge, embrace differences and develop the intellectual and emotional courage to be ready for anything.
Seattle academy is a dynamic community that challenges students to question, imagine, and create in order to contribute to a changing world.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
In a community that fosters academic excellence, ethical responsibility and global engagement, pacific ridge school prepares students for college and a purposeful life.
Laguna college of art & design prepares individuals for careers as creative artists and designers in a culturally and ethnically diverse world through a curriculum that emphasizes acquiring skills based on observation, representation, and…
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rhode Island School of Design and the most unlike its peers is YouthBeat. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 THE ATHENIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Orinda Community Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
- Who funds LEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE RANDOLPH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE ACCESS FUND ↗
- Who funds Richmond Art Center ↗
- Who funds YouthBeat ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Edmundson Art Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN OF GRACE ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND FUND ↗
- Who funds JULIA MORGAN SCHOOL FOR GIRLS ↗
- Who funds RANDOLPH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Lamorinda Arts Council ↗
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: East Bay Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Helen J Urban & Thomas Nelson Urban Charitable Foundation IV 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.
- Lewis & Clark College — 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.