How much does Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation give?

Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $1,513,812 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 90 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (60%), Arts & Culture (11%), Human Services (7%).

Who are Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Crivitz Youth Inc ($8.0M), Community Partnership for Youth ($315k), Action Council of Monterey County Inc ($280k).

Does Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Pebble Beach Company Foundation, Barnet Segal Charitable Trust.

Where is Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation based?

Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation is based in CA.

Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation

Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.5M

Granted FY2024still arriving

Grants FY2024still arriving

States reached

$1.1M

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$10.0MArts & Culture$1.9MHuman Services$1.1MEducation$884kHealth$675kCrime & Legal$474kEnvironment$384kPhilanthropy$345kOther$0

02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $8k
$10k–50k29 grants · $438k
$250k+1 grant · $1.1M

$15,000

Median grant

States reached

$44M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
Crivitz Youth Inc	$1,068,312
Boys and Girls Clubs of Monterey Co	$30,000
Community Partnership for Youth	$30,000
Palenke Arts	$20,000
Girls Inc of the Central Coast	$20,000
Individual grant recipient	$20,000
Youth Arts Collective Inc	$20,000
Central Coast YMCA	$20,000
City of Greenfield	$20,000
Center for Community Advocacy	$15,000
Harmony at Home	$15,000
CASA of Monterey County Inc	$15,000
Action Council of Monterey County	$15,000
Restorative Justice Partners Inc	$15,000
Youth Music Monterey	$15,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$16M · 95 repeat orgs$153k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +59% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$16M

$138k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%

Still filing today

77%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

CY
CRIVITZ YOUTH INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $8.0M · revenue +41% · 62% of their budget
CP
COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP FOR YOUTH
7× · 2017–2024 · $315k · revenue +10%
CA
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Monterey County Inc
7× · 2017–2024 · $225k · revenue +74%

Funded once

IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2020 · $30k
NM
NATIVIDAD MEDICAL FOUNDATION
one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -6%
CC
Catholic Charities Diocese of Monte
one grant, 2019 · $10k

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.

Monterey Peninsula Ballet Theatre Corp

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.

Arts & Culture

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute

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Santa Catalina School

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…

Education

Marin Academy

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.

Education

Monterey County Film Commission

To inspire and facilitate film and media production throughout monterey county, creating positive economic impact.

Arts & Culture

Monterey Bay Economic Partnership Inc

To improve the economic health and quality of life in the monterey bay region.

Community Improvement

Monterey Bay United

Recreation & Sports

Coastside Childrens Programs

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…

Human Services

Monterey County Interfaith Alliance

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California Montessori Project

To offer a quality, tuition-free montessori education that challenges our students to reach their full potential.

Education

Terra Marin School

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…

Education

Marin Open Studios

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…

Arts & Culture

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monterey County Youth Museum; 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.

04the grantee network

83 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. 83 of the 118 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

81/83

Grantees still filing

67/83

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$11,681,988Arts & Culture$1,617,000Human Services$909,000Youth Development$804,000Education$672,300Health$500,000Crime & Legal$439,000

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.

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.

Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA132.2× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

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.

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The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

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The endowment market

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The camps

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By state

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