· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILLIE K CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER | $2,000 |
| ALPHA CHARTER GUILD TO THE ANTELOPE VALLEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER | $1,500 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | $1,000 |
| THOUSAND SMILES FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAN DIEGUITO HERITAGE MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| ENCINITAS ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–18, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (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 FY2018, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- WKWILLIE K CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT2× · 2017–2018 · $23k
- SDSAN DIEGUITO HERITAGE MUSEUM2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue -7%
- ERENCINITAS ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- HOHOSPICE OF THE VALLEYSone grant, 2017 · $8k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $8k
- NCNORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +93%
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.
Assist local charitable organizations, including ymca, boys & girls club, scholarships, and many other community projects.
To assist in creating a safe place for victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and elder abuse to access medical and mental health assistance, as well as law enforcement.
To honor the history of the antelope valley with documentation, preservation, exhibition, and education.
Emergency food services provided to families in need.
The purpose of this corporation is to provide comprehensive, collaborative,professional services to victims of domestic violence and their children, to victims of sexual abuse, sexual assault and sexual exploitation, to victims of elder…
Scholarships, educator awards, financial support of community organizations
To raise money to support charities working to promote the health and well-being of southern california's diverse community
Assistance League Pomona Valley is a nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to improving the lives and well-being of children and families in our communities.
The vision of center for family strengthening is a community where all children are valued, nurtured and safe. our misson is to build effective community partnerships dedicated to the support of strong families and the prevention of child…
The center is fully operational treatment facility involving child victims of physical and sexual abuse. Children affected by abuse were provided with therapy and professional guidance through the legal and counseling system which the…
Raise funds for usc/norris comprehensive cancer center.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assistance League of North Coast and the most unlike its peers is Encinitas Rotary Club Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 13 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 SAN DIEGUITO HERITAGE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ENCINITAS ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Ovation Theatre ↗
- Who funds SAFE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTERS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NORTH COAST ↗
- Who funds ALPHA CHARTER GUILD TO THE ANTELOPE VALLEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND SMILES FOUNDATION ↗
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: Sempra Foundation · Leichtag Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation 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.
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.