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John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$10k
Granted FY2018
7
Grants FY2018
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% 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
02FY2018 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WILLIE K CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT$2,500
COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER$2,000
ALPHA CHARTER GUILD TO THE ANTELOPE VALLEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER$1,500
THOUSAND SMILES FOUNDATION$1,000
SAN DIEGUITO HERITAGE MUSEUM$1,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$1,000
ENCINITAS ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION$500
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SAFE ALTERNATIVES FOR EVERYONE: $2k → 11%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NORTH COAST: $2k → 11%COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $2k → 11%NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE: $3k → 11%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.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$35k · 4 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
6

Total granted

$35k
$26k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+94%

Still filing today

50%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Human ServicesPhilanthropyArts & CultureHealthInternationalOther
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

  • WK
    WILLIE K CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT
    2× · 2017–2018 · $23k
  • SD
    SAN DIEGUITO HERITAGE MUSEUM
    2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue -7%
  • ER
    ENCINITAS ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOSPICE OF THE VALLEYS
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $8k
  • NC
    NORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +93%
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
Chula Vista Rotary Foundation

Assist local charitable organizations, including ymca, boys & girls club, scholarships, and many other community projects.

Philanthropy
2
Ventura County Family Justice Center Foundation Inc

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.

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3
Antelope Valley Rural Museum

To honor the history of the antelope valley with documentation, preservation, exhibition, and education.

Arts & Culture
4
North County Community Food Bank

Emergency food services provided to families in need.

Food & Nutrition
5
Alameda County Family Justice Center Inc

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…

Human Services
6
Rotary Club of San Rafael Fund

Scholarships, educator awards, financial support of community organizations

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7
Vintage Hollywood Foundation

To raise money to support charities working to promote the health and well-being of southern california's diverse community

Philanthropy
8
Assistance League of the Pomona Valley

Assistance League Pomona Valley is a nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to improving the lives and well-being of children and families in our communities.

Human Services
9
San Luis Obispo County Child Abuse Prevention Council Dba Cfsslo

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…

Crime & Legal
10
California Human Trafficking Investigators and Prosecuters Asso
Crime & Legal
11
Childrens Advocacy Center of Laredo-Web

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…

Health
12
San Pedro Peninsula Cancer Guild

Raise funds for usc/norris comprehensive cancer center.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Assistance League of North Coast; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WILLIE K CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENT: $22,500 · OtherWILLIE K CHARITY GOLF TOURNAMENTHOSPICE OF THE VALLEYS: $8,000 · OtherHOSPICE OF THE VALLEYSIndividual grant recipient: $8,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN DIEGUITO HERITAGE MUSEUM: $6,000 · OtherSAN DIEGUITO HERITAGE MUSEUMRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE: $3,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSENORTH COUNTY LIFELINE INC DBA LIFELINE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3,000 · Human ServicesNORTH COUNTY LI…SAFE FAMILY JUSTICE CENTERS: $2,100 · Human ServicesSAFE FAMILY JUS…COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY RESOU…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF NORTH COAST: $1,900 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAG…ENCINITAS ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION: $3,800 · PhilanthropyOvation Theatre: $2,500 · Arts & CultureALPHA CHARTER GUILD TO THE ANTELOPE VALLEY HOSPITAL MEDICAL CENTER: $1,500 · HealthTHOUSAND SMILES FOUNDATION: $1,000 · International
Other$47,500Human Services$9,000Philanthropy$3,800Arts & Culture$2,500Health$1,500International$1,000

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

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
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.

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 FoundationLeichtag FoundationFidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John and Mary Rainsford Charitable Foundation. 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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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