· Private foundation
Mervin B and Berenice R France Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION OF THE OLD GUARD | $10,000 |
| BLUECOATS INC | $10,000 |
| US NAVAL ACADEMY | $7,661 |
| CARMEL OF THE HOLY FAMILY | $7,661 |
| SHELTER FOR ABUSED WOMEN | $7,661 |
| CAFE OF LIFE | $7,661 |
| METRO ATLANTA RECOVER RESIDENCES | $7,645 |
| AMIGOS DE TEXAS | $7,645 |
| FRANCISCAN LIFE PROCESS CENTER | $7,645 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY | $6,555 |
| ROBERT TOMKO MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $4,413 |
| ISLAND DOLPHIN CARE | $4,260 |
| K9S FOR WARRIORS | $2,935 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 59% of your 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of 0% since the first grant, against -47% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- COCAFE OF LIFE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +130%
- BIBLUECOATS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $39k · revenue +87%
K9S FOR WARRIORS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $26k · revenue +87%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue -47%
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.
The mission of the corporation is to provide support for the war dogs of the united states military. the organization provides care packages to war dogs and their handlers serving overseas. the organization also provides support for…
The primary mission of the uso san diego is to strengthen america's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.
The successful transition of u.s. military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
Research and advocacy for veterans with post-traumatic stress and the prevention of veteran suicide.
The corporation's mission is to improve the quality of life for people and dogs through training assistance dogs, pet therapy dogs, and owning and operating an off-leash dog park. the corporation also assists with enhancing the quality of…
Our organization's mission is to raise awareness for and provide physical aid and support to disabled us military veterans. our program covers a crucial gap in the industry-a veteran operated organization, that can assist veterans with…
The organizations mission is to rescue and train homeless dogs to become service dogs for united states veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), traumatic brain injury (tbi), and related challenges.
To promote health by engaging in the practice of medicine for patients of hospitals affiliated with the university of southern california keck school of medicine and elsewhere. to provide medical care to the sick and injured who may come…
The mission of the uso foundation (foundation) is to support uso inc.'s (uso) mission to strengthen the well-being of the people serving in america's military and their families.
To strengthen america's military service members by keeping them connected to family, home and country, throughout their service to the nation.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To improve the lives of injured and disabled law-enforcement officers through support, education, assistance and legislation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is K9S for Warriors Inc and the most unlike its peers is Amigos De Texas Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 16 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 CAFE OF LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds BLUECOATS INC ↗
- Who funds METRO ATLANTA RECOVERY RESIDENCES INC ↗
- Who funds AMIGOS DE TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds USO OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON-BALTIMORE INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND DOLPHIN CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION OF THE OLD GUARD INC ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Mervin B and Berenice R France 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 0% of income from government
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.