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Imagination Foundation For the Arts Education & the Environment

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.

$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Employment$367kArts & Culture$83kEnvironment$33kReligion$15kEducation$7kCrime & Legal$5kRecreation & Sports$2kPhilanthropy$1kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$250
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Berkeley Playhouse$2,500
Individual grant recipient$1,200
Community Foundation$1,125
Legal Aid of Sonoma County$1,000
Friends of the Petaluma Rive$1,000
Land Paths$1,000
Sonoma County Regional Parks$250
Sonoma Country Day School$250
Petaluma River Park Foundation$250
Sonoma Academy$250
Floathouse Petro Small Craft$250
CA State Parks Foundation$250
Truckee Donner Land Trust$250
Individual grant recipient$250
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Phillips Academy - Andover: $250 → 10%University of Minnesota: $250 → 11%University of Pennsylvania: $300 → 22%Artaluma: $25k → 8%Community Foundation: $1k → 9%CA State Parks Foundation: $250 → 10%Truckee Donner Land Trust: $500 → 11%First Unitarian Church of Honolulu: $1k → 9%Paypal Charitable Giving Fund: $255 → 14%Heritage Camps: $250 → 12%Unitarian Universalists Petaluma: $10k → 8%Land Paths: $10k → 9%Black Pine Circle School: $250 → 10%CA State Parks Foundation: $250 → 10%Truckee Donner Land Trust: $250 → 11%Unitarian Universalists Petaluma: $2k → 8%Land Paths: $5k → 9%BAAS: $1k → 10%CA State Parks Foundation: $250 → 10%Friends of the Petaluma Rive: $1k → 8%Land Paths: $5k → 9%Robin Nasatk: $300 → 10%Land Paths: $5k → 9%Land Paths: $5k → 9%Legal Aid of Sonoma County: $4k → 9%Land Paths: $1k → 9%1951 Coffee Company: $334k → 10%Legal Aid of Sonoma County: $1k → 9%1951 Coffee Company: $34k → 10%Berkeley Playhouse: $13k → 10%Unitarian Universalist: $1k → 9%Berkeley Playhouse: $11k → 10%Berkeley Playhouse: $11k → 10%Unitarian Universalist: $1k → 9%Berkeley Playhouse: $11k → 10%Artstart: $1k → 9%Berkeley Playhouse: $5k → 10%Berkeley Playhouse: $3k → 10%Sonoma Country Day School: $1k → 9%Shotgun Players: $1k → 10%Shotgun Players: $1k → 10%Peter Canton: $330 → 10%Darian Gray: $330 → 10%Ner Shalom: $1k → 9%Bishop O'Dowd High School: $2k → 10%Bishop O'Dowd High School: $2k → 10%Bishop Odowd: $2k → 10%Storycenter: $945 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$485k · 16 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +54% since the first grant, against +42% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
15

Total granted

$485k
$31k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+42%

Still filing today

50%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentEmploymentCrime & LegalCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BP
    Berkeley Playhouse Inc
    6× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +30%
  • L
    LandPaths
    6× · 2017–2024 · $31k · revenue +89%
  • LA
    LEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY
    3× · 2017–2024 · $5k · revenue +221%

Funded once

  • A
    Artaluma
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • SS
    START SOCO
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -42%
  • FU
    First Unitarian Church of Honolulu
    one grant, 2021 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
3
Terra Marin School

Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…

Education
4
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
5
Heyday

Our core mission is to deepen peoples awareness of the cultural, natural, literary, and historic resources of California, especially through publications but also through events and other media.

Arts & Culture
6
Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Company Inc

The Independent Berkeley Student Publishing Co., Inc. (The Daily Californian) is an independent newspaper that trains UC Berkeley students for careers in journalism and business. The paper and its digital products are the primary source…

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7
Yuba River Charter School

Yuba River Charter School provides K-8 public Waldorf education that nurtures the physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of the child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. YRCS brings forth the academic, social,…

Education
8
The Forager School

As a community, The Forager School is guided by a child-centered philosophy that puts play at the heart of everything we do. Located in rural Northern California we are devoted to fostering a deep connection between young children and the…

Education
9
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
10
Pacific Community Charter School

To provide a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum which prepares students to enter higher education and occupations in their communities with an understanding of their geographic and historical roots and the goals toward which they can…

Education
11
Mark Day School

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.

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12
East Bay German International School

We empower our students to become creative world citizens. Our exceptional multi-lingual program equips our students with outstanding academic skills and proficiency in German English and other elected languages. Our multicultural and…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Country Day School; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Petaluma River. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

19 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

1951 COFFEE COMPANY: $367,411 · Employment1951 COFFEE COMPANYBerkeley Playhouse Inc: $53,640 · Arts & CultureBerkeley Pla…Shotgun Players: $2,250 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $1,945 · Arts & CultureArtaluma: $25,000 · OtherArtalumaUnitarian Universalists Petaluma: $11,501 · OtherUnitarian U…Bishop O'Dowd High School: $4,100 · OtherBishop O'Do…Unitarian Universalist: $2,200 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,050 · Other+18 more: $8,187 · Other+18 moreLandPaths: $31,000 · Environment+2 more: $1,750 · EnvironmentLEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY: $5,250 · Crime & LegalSONOMA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,250 · EducationBerkeley Public Schools Fund: $500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300 · EducationPARK DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $250 · EducationBLACK PINE CIRCLE INC: $250 · EducationSONOMA ACADEMY: $250 · EducationInland Empire Community Foundation: $1,125 · PhilanthropyPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $255 · Philanthropy
Employment$367,411Arts & Culture$57,835Other$53,038Environment$32,750Crime & Legal$5,250Education$2,800Philanthropy$1,380

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget1951 COFFEE COMPANY: $367,411 over 2y, 37% of budgetBerkeley Playhouse Inc: $53,640 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLandPaths: $31,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetLEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY: $5,250 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetShotgun Players: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSONOMA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation: $1,125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTART SOCO: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PETALUMA RIVER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStoryCenter: $945 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBerkeley Public Schools Fund: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $255 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPETALUMA RIVER PARK FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Bay Organizing Project: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK PINE CIRCLE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA ACADEMY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 1951 COFFEE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds Berkeley Playhouse Inc ↗
  • Who funds LandPaths ↗
  • Who funds LEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Shotgun Players ↗
  • Who funds SONOMA COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds Inland Empire Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds START SOCO ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PETALUMA RIVER ↗
  • Who funds StoryCenter ↗
  • Who funds TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Berkeley Public Schools Fund ↗
  • Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
  • Who funds PAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND ↗
  • Who funds PARK DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds PETALUMA RIVER PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds North Bay Organizing Project ↗
  • Who funds BLACK PINE CIRCLE INC ↗
  • Who funds SONOMA ACADEMY ↗

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.

Marin Community Found…East Bay Community Fo…Sonoma County Communi…The San Francisco Fou…Weinreb Pilecki Segal…Silicon Valley Commun…McNabb FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Gs Donor Advised Phil…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…
Marin Community FoundationCA24.1× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Weinreb Pilecki Segal Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Imagination Foundation For the Arts Education & the Environment funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Imagination Foundation For the Arts Education & the Environment. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Imagination Foundation For the Arts Education & the Environment?

    Find your warmest path to Imagination Foundation For the Arts Education & the Environment through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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