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Oneroot 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.

$8.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
61
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$2.6M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Education$14MHealth$3.4MYouth Development$2.2MHuman Services$2.2MMembership Benefit$2.1MRecreation & Sports$914kArts & Culture$820kCommunity Improvement$510kOther$0
02FY2025 · 61 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k31 grants · $572k
  • $50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+8 grants · $7.1M
$25,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUND$2,616,897
AUGIE'S QUEST TO CURE ALS$1,345,000
UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION$1,000,000
MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND$600,000
BABY2BABY$530,000
TROJAN SIG FOUNDATION$377,181
VOLLEYBALL NEWPORT BEACH INC$315,000
WEST COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$291,940
KIDWORKS$210,000
NATIONAL FOOTBALL FOUNDATION$165,000
STARS & STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION$100,000
TRI-CITIES FOOD BANK$100,000
Individual grant recipient$100,000
PETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM$100,000
LA CLIPPERS FOUNDATION$100,000
02The need
03

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 (FY21–25, $2.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 42% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%HOT BREAD KITCHEN LTD: $10k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $10k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $20k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $5k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $10k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $600k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%BOYS REPUBLIC: $10k → 14%MOTION PICTURE & TELEVISION FUND: $100k → 14%LET GROW INC: $40k → 17%LAURA'S HOUSE: $10k → 10%KIDWORKS: $286k → 10%KIDWORKS: $225k → 10%KIDWORKS: $210k → 10%KIDWORKS: $125k → 10%STARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%STARS & STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%STARS & STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%STARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $15k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ID
MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18M · 41 repeat orgs$8.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

41 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
54

Total granted

$18M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

76%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureEnvironmentOther
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

  • AC
    AMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +29% · 87% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +33%
  • B
    BABY2BABY
    3× · 2022–2025 · $895k · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • AC
    AMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $2.6M
  • NB
    NEWPORT BEACH JUNIOR LIFEGUARD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $805k · revenue -98% · 73% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +128%
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.

1
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
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
California State University Long Beach Research Foundation

Serves the mission of the university by supporting and engaging in research, entrepreneurship, community service, sponsored programs and the acquisition of private resources.

Education
6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
7
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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8
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation

The jonsson cancer center foundation is the single most important vehicle for raising private funds for cancer research at ucla and plays a key role in advancing cancer treatments and care. please see schedule o for additional information.

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9
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
10
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
11
Western University of Health Sciences

To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.

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12
Pacific University

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Porsche 356 Club 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

97 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. 97 of the 132 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
97/97
Grantees still filing
51/97
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,632,367 · OtherAMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE FOUNDATIONAMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUND: $2,616,897 · OtherAMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUN…BABY2BABY: $895,000 · OtherBABY2BABYDISCOVERY CUBE OF ORANGE COUNTY: $690,000 · OtherDISCOVERY CUBE OF ORANGE COUNTYVOLLEYBALL NEWPORT BEACH INC: $488,000 · Other+74 more: $2,343,740 · Other+74 moreAMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,008,109 · EducationAMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATIONA…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATIONWEST COAST UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $291,940 · Education+14 more: $916,104 · Education+14 moreAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $2,745,000 · HealthAugies Quest …HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250,000 · HealthHOAG HOSPITAL…NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $148,000 · Health+7 more: $173,225 · HealthTrojan Sig Foundation: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyTrojan Si…SACC SCHOLARSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST: $90,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $89,000 · PhilanthropyKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $846,000 · Human ServicesMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $700,000 · Human ServicesSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $315,000 · Human ServicesCASA TERESA INC: $135,000 · Human Services+6 more: $149,500 · Human ServicesPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $600,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ALL-AMERICAN BOYS CHORUS: $70,000 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $62,500 · Arts & CultureNEWPORT BEACH JUNIOR LIFEGUARD FOUNDATION: $805,000 · Youth Development
Other$9,666,004Education$8,216,153Health$3,316,225Philanthropy$2,179,000Human Services$2,145,500Arts & Culture$822,500Youth Development$805,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMERICAN CAREER COLLEGE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $5,008,109 over 3y, 87% of budgetAugies Quest to Cure ALS Inc: $2,745,000 over 5y, 10.0% of budgetTrojan Sig Foundation: $2,000,000 over 3y, 92% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBABY2BABY: $895,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetKIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP: $846,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetNEWPORT BEACH JUNIOR LIFEGUARD FOUNDATION: $805,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetMOTION PICTURE AND TELEVISION FUND: $700,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPETERSEN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM FOUNDATION: $600,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetVOLLEYBALL NEWPORT BEACH INC: $488,000 over 2y, 32% of budgetSTARS AND STRIPES CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $315,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEWPORT HARBOR EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION C/O EMILY EVANS: $225,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CENTRAL ORANGE COAST: $156,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTRI-CITIES FOOD BANK: $150,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $148,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCASA TERESA INC: $135,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budget5430 FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL NATURE CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetLA CLIPPERS FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetSACC SCHOLARSHIP CHARITABLE TRUST: $90,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetTHE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNew York University: $80,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSigma Chi Foundation: $75,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEE PESKY LEARNING CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND: $74,125 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALL-AMERICAN BOYS CHORUS: $70,000 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORANGEWOOD FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEWPORT BEACH INDEPENDENT INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $50,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetOrange County Coastkeeper: $48,500 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetEDIBLE SCHOOLYARD NEW YORK: $45,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCONSTRUCTIVE DIALOGUE INSTITUTE INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLET GROW INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBoys Republic: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHETERODOX ACADEMY: $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $36,104 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetNEWPORT HARBOR SAILING FOUNDATION: $34,950 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $34,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $33,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetJOHN WAYNE CANCER FOUNDATION: $27,600 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSahag Mesrob Armenian Christian School: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRISEHYRE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetHILINSKI'S HOPE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budget
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.

Orange County Communi…Argyros Family Founda…The Devto Support Fou…Edwards Lifesciences …California Community …Connelly Family Found…Frome Family Foundati…Croul Family Foundati…O L Halsell FoundationOneocFarmers & Merchants B…Sempra Foundation
Orange County Community FoundationCA45.1× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Orange County Community Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · California Community Foundation · Connelly Family Foundation · Frome Family Foundation · Croul Family Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Oneoc · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Sempra 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 Oneroot Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Oneroot Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Farm Aid Inc: 100% of income from government
  • University of Miami: 5% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Oneroot Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Oneroot 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 132 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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The unnamed billions
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home