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John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation

Its FY2018 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 FY2018
7
Grants FY2018
7
Organizations funded FY2018
43%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$2,500
Organizations funded a year
7 to 10
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 43% of the organizations John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 47% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20187$10k43%
FY201710$56kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Recreation & Sports$23kHealth$11kHuman Services$10kArts & Culture$9kPhilanthropy$4kEducation$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($42k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Dieguito Heritage Museum: $6,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetEncinitas Rotary Club Foundation: $3,800 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNorth County Lifeline Inc Dba Lifeline Community Services: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOvation Theatre: $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSafe Family Justice Centers: $2,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Resource Center: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAssistance League of North Coast: $1,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAlpha Charter Guild to the Antelope Valley Hospital Medical Center: $1,500 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetThousand Smiles Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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.

Sempra FoundationCA14.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sempra Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation

How much does John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation give?
John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $9,500 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Recreation & Sports (34%), Health (16%), Human Services (15%).
Who are John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: San Dieguito Heritage Museum ($6k), Encinitas Rotary Club Foundation ($4k), North County Lifeline Inc Dba Lifeline Community Services ($3k).
Does John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sempra Foundation, Leichtag Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation based?
John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation is based in CA.

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 13 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 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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