· Private foundation
Nancy Buck Ransom 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $438k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Crivitz Youth Inc | $1,068,312 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Monterey Co | $30,000 |
| Community Partnership for Youth | $30,000 |
| Girls Inc of the Central Coast | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Palenke Arts | $20,000 |
| Central Coast YMCA | $20,000 |
| City of Greenfield | $20,000 |
| Youth Arts Collective Inc | $20,000 |
| Restorative Justice Partners Inc | $15,000 |
| Youth Music Monterey | $15,000 |
| Center for Community Advocacy | $15,000 |
| City of Gonzales | $15,000 |
| Harmony at Home | $15,000 |
| Fndn for Monterey County Free Libra | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $510k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +55% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
95 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 67 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- CYCRIVITZ YOUTH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +39% · 62% of their budget
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH7× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +10%
- CACourt Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +74%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $30k
- NMNATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -6%
- CCCatholic Charities Diocese of Monteone grant, 2019 · $10k
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.
Fostering the passion and development of local youth through the performing arts, where talents and life skills may grow in an inspiring and nurturing environment.
Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…
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.
To inspire and facilitate film and media production throughout monterey county, creating positive economic impact.
To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.
Coastside childrens programs (ccp) mission is to provide a safe and caring environment where children learn through experience, play, and friendships - building a foundation for success in school and life. ccp is offering preschool…
To offer a quality, tuition-free montessori education that challenges our students to reach their full potential.
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monterey County Youth Museum and the most unlike its peers is Crivitz Youth Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
83 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. 83 of the 118 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 CRIVITZ YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Action Council of Monterey County Inc ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ARTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast ↗
- Who funds EL SISTEMA USASALINAS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HARMONY AT HOME ↗
- Who funds Monterey County Rape Crisis Center ↗
- Who funds THE EPICENTER OF MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR MO COUNTY FREE LIBRARIES ↗
- Who funds Big Sur Land Trust ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY YOUTH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL KIDS CONNECT ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORATIVE JUSTICE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO ME PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds VENTANA WILDLIFE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds COASTAL KIDS HOME CARE ↗
- Who funds Monterey Peninsula College Foundation ↗
- Who funds ARIEL THEATRICAL INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MUSIC MONTEREY ↗
- Who funds SUN STREET CENTERS ↗
- Who funds SOL TREASURES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds Palenke Arts ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR PEACE ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL NEST INC ↗
- Who funds The Lyceum of Monterey County ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE DISCIPLINE COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
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: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Arts Council for Monterey County · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Alexander F Victor Foundation · Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula · Cleo Foundation · Tanimura Family Foundation · Nancy Eccles and Homer M Hayward Family 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 Nancy Buck Ransom 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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