· Private foundation
Lindsay & Alex Ramsay Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CAREY SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA | $15,000 |
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $5,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE CAREY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE GOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| GROTON SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| CALIFORNIA TROUT | $500 |
| DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of Lindsay & Alex Ramsay Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 77%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TCTHE CAREY SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $216k · revenue +100%
- TPTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY6× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +18%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA2× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- PTPENINSULA TEMPLE SHOLOMone grant, 2023 · $3k
- ECEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIESone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1k
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.
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.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
How this is measured
29 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. 29 of the 43 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds THE CAREY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds Hypopara Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOUR WINDS ↗
- Who funds GOOD TIDINGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS ↗
- Who funds RAPHAEL HOUSE OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds CURIODYSSEY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FAMILY CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds COACHING CORPS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY PENINSULA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds The Carol Emmott Foundation ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Greene Van Arsdale Foundation co KKR Accounting Services LLC · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Ramsay Family Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Hoefer Family Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Lindsay & Alex Ramsay Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lindsay & Alex Ramsay Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Project Healing Waters Fly Fishing Inc: 46% of income from government
How this is measured
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