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McClain Roberts Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$775k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232025.

Environment$750kHuman Services$350kEducation$205kInternational$175kReligion$125kFood & Nutrition$75kArts & Culture$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $700k
$50,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$7.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA LUZ CENTER$100,000
LA LUZ CENTER$100,000
LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE$75,000
ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR$75,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$75,000
SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION$75,000
OPERATION BREAKTHROUGH$50,000
SONOMA LAND TRUST$50,000
EARTHJUSTICE$50,000
TAHOE FUND$50,000
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK$25,000
KQED$25,000
SONOMA LAND TRUST$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–25, $350k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LA LUZ CENTER: $100k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $100k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $100k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $50k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 9 repeat orgs$280k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$1.5M
$180k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+27%

Still filing today

89%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24’25
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesReligionFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther

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

  • LL
    LA LUZ CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $350k · revenue +43%
  • LT
    LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $175k · revenue +34%
  • EARTHJUSTICE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $175k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $130k · revenue +27%
  • MS
    MORGAN STANLEY
    one grant, 2023 · $50k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Save the Redwoods League

Save the redwoods league protects and restores redwood forests and connects people with their peace and beauty so these wonders of the natural world flourish.

Environment
2
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
3
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
4
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
5
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
6
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal
7
Shasta Land Trust

Conserve the beauty, character, and diversity of significant lands in far northern california. currently shasta land trust holds conservation easements that permanently protect about 66,000 acres of land.

Environment
8
The Trust for Public Land

The trust for public land creates parks and protects land for people, ensuring healthy, livable communities for generations to come. in the past year, we helped communities to plan for parks and conservation, fund parks and conservation,…

Environment
9
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
10
Healthy Environment Alliance of Utah

Heal utah's mission is to protect utah's environment and its people by promoting clean air, clean energy, and comprehensive solutions to radioactive and toxic waste.

Environment
11
Western Electricity Coordinating Council

To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.

Public Benefit
12
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC — $175,000 · EnvironmentELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INCEARTHJUSTICE — $175,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICESONOMA LAND TRUST — $125,000 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND TRUSTTAHOE FUND — $100,000 · EnvironmentTAHOE FUNDOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $175,000 · EducationOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH I…THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $130,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGI…SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEG…LA LUZ CENTER — $350,000 · Human ServicesLA LUZ CENTERLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $175,000 · ReligionLEAGUE TO S…SRJC FOUNDATION — $125,000 · OtherSRJC FOUNDA…MORGAN STANLEY — $50,000 · OtherMORGAN STAN…REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $75,000 · Food & NutritionKQED INC — $25,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$575,000Education$380,000Human Services$350,000Religion$175,000Other$175,000Food & Nutrition$75,000Arts & Culture$25,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLA LUZ CENTER — $350,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetELEMENTAL EXCELERATOR INC — $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $175,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION BREAKTHROUGH INC — $175,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA FOUNDATION — $130,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST — $125,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTAHOE FUND — $100,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization McClain Roberts 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to McClain Roberts Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to McClain Roberts 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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