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King Ridge Foundation
Raising awareness and providing financial support to programs serving at-risk youth across the country.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- $10k–50k2 grants · $69k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Forget Me Not Childrens Serv | $69,500 |
| OutrideOrg | $48,600 |
| TLC-Child & Family Services | $20,800 |
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 (FY17–22, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 14% of King Ridge Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 67% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- FMForget Me Not Childrens Services3× · 2017–2022 · $349k · revenue +50% · 35% of their budget
- COCouncil on Aging Services for Seniors2× · 2017–2018 · $185k · revenue +35%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +188%
Funded once
- CACOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +51%
- TSThe Society of St Vincent de Paul District Council of Sonoma County Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +309%
- SFSONOMA FAMILY MEALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $66k · revenue +569% · 36% of their budget
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.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
Solano Family & Children's Services promotes and advocates for the well-being of children, their families, and child care providers by offering access to a variety of child care resources.
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…
Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…
California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
CASA recruits, trains, and supports community volunteers who advocate for chidren and youth throughout their journey in foster care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Family Meal and the most unlike its peers is Outride fka the Specialized Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 17 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 Forget Me Not Childrens Services ↗
- Who funds Council on Aging Services for Seniors ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Society of St Vincent de Paul District Council of Sonoma County Inc ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Outride fka The Specialized Foundation ↗
- Who funds SONOMA FAMILY MEAL ↗
- Who funds B-RAD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County ↗
- Who funds ALTERNATIVE FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TLC Child and Family Services ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN VALLEY BANK COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates ↗
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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · United Way of the Wine Country · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · The Heck Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities
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 King Ridge 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.
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