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King Ridge Foundation

Raising awareness and providing financial support to programs serving at-risk youth across the country.

$139k
Granted FY2022
3
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Human Services$460kPublic Safety & Disaster$404kYouth Development$280kFood & Nutrition$91kCrime & Legal$5k
02FY2022 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k2 grants · $69k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
$48,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$30k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Forget Me Not Childrens Serv$69,500
OutrideOrg$48,600
TLC-Child & Family Services$20,800
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:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Community Child Care Council: $25k → 9%TLC-Child & Family Services: $21k → 9%California Human Development: $50k → 9%California Human Development: $25k → 9%Alternative Family Services: $24k → 9%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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 14% of King Ridge Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 67%.

King Ridge Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 31% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$874k · 7 repeat orgs$365k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
9

Total granted

$874k
$345k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+118%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’22
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionPublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyOther
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

  • FM
    Forget Me Not Childrens Services
    3× · 2017–2022 · $349k · revenue +50% · 35% of their budget
  • CO
    Council on Aging Services for Seniors
    2× · 2017–2018 · $185k · revenue +35%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN
    2× · 2017–2018 · $125k · revenue +188%

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +51%
  • TS
    The Society of St Vincent de Paul District Council of Sonoma County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue +287%
  • SF
    SONOMA FAMILY MEALgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $66k · revenue +569% · 36% of their budget
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 Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
2
Casa of Solano County

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.

Civil Rights
3
Solano Family & Childrens Council Inc

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.

Human Services
4
San Francisco Casa

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…

Civil Rights
5
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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6
Children's Council of San Francisco

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…

Human Services
7
Homes for California Dba Homes for Sonoma

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…

Housing & Shelter
8
Homeward Bound of Marin

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
California Alliance of Caregivers

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…

Health
10
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
11
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

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.

Housing & Shelter
12
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc

CASA recruits, trains, and supports community volunteers who advocate for chidren and youth throughout their journey in foster care.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Family Meal; 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.
05the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Forget Me Not Childrens Services: $349,393 · Human ServicesForget Me Not Childrens ServicesCALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONCommunity Child Care Council of Sonoma County: $25,000 · Human ServicesALTERNATIVE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $23,564 · Human ServicesTLC Child and Family Services: $20,800 · Human ServicesCouncil on Aging Services for Seniors: $185,000 · OtherCouncil on Aging Services for SeniorsBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN: $125,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARINThe Society of St Vincent de Paul District Council of Sonoma County Inc: $75,000 · OtherThe Society of St Vincent de Paul Distric…B-RAD FOUNDATION: $38,631 · OtherB-RAD FOUNDATIONExcel Roseville: $30,264 · OtherExcel RosevilleOutride fka The Specialized Foundation: $70,521 · Youth DevelopmentOutride f…ADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE: $29,954 · Youth DevelopmentADVENTURE…COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY: $75,000 · Community ImprovementSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $66,000 · Public Safety & DisasterREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $25,000 · Food & NutritionGOLDEN VALLEY BANK COMMUNITY: $20,000 · PhilanthropyCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Human Services$493,757Other$453,895Youth Development$100,475Community Improvement$75,000Public Safety & Disaster$66,000Food & Nutrition$25,000Philanthropy$20,000Civil Rights$5,000

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 budgetForget Me Not Childrens Services: $349,393 over 3y, 35% of budgetCouncil on Aging Services for Seniors: $185,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN: $125,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Society of St Vincent de Paul District Council of Sonoma County Inc: $75,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetOutride fka The Specialized Foundation: $70,521 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSONOMA FAMILY MEAL: $66,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetB-RAD FOUNDATION: $38,631 over 2y, 23% of budgetADVENTURE RISK CHALLENGE: $29,954 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Child Care Council of Sonoma County: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALTERNATIVE FAMILY SERVICES INC: $23,564 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTLC Child and Family Services: $20,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGOLDEN VALLEY BANK COMMUNITY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

Sonoma County Communi…McNabb FoundationRedwood Credit Union …Sonoma County Vintner…Bothin FoundationMarin Community Found…Kaiser Foundation Hos…United Way of the Win…Silicon Valley Commun…Sonoma Valley Vintner…The Heck FoundationCalifornia Foundation…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA30.1× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 King Ridge Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from King Ridge Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 King Ridge Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to King Ridge Foundation 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 17 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $95k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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