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Paul & Monica Bancroft Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $252k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LAUREL CENTER | $30,000 |
| STANDUP FOR KIDS | $26,000 |
| URBAN VOICES PROJECT | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE | $22,500 |
| WINCHESTER DAY NURSERY INC | $22,000 |
| ABC HOUSE | $18,000 |
| WELL | $17,000 |
| NEW EARTH ORGANIZATION | $16,000 |
| BETHLEHEM INN | $16,000 |
| SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY | $16,000 |
| MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT | $15,000 |
| THE CANCER RESOURCE CTR OF MENDOCINO | $15,000 |
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE | $13,000 |
| CONCERN HOTLINE | $8,500 |
| MICHAELS DAUGHTER FUND | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $94k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +19% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
StandUp for Kids7× · 2019–2025 · $179k · revenue +76%- TATHE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE7× · 2019–2025 · $151k · revenue +19%
- WDWINCHESTER DAY NURSERY INC7× · 2019–2025 · $139k · revenue +51%
Funded once
- WCWILLITS COMM SVCS AND FOOD BANKone grant, 2024 · $15k
- MSMANZANITA SERVICES INCone grant, 2023 · $11k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $8k
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.
From clinical care and peer support programs to housing, we provide resources so people seeking mental health care can develop the tools to thrive, not just survive.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Transforming lives of women struggling with drug and alcohol addiction by providing a long-term residential program to experience physical, emotional and spiritual healing through recovery. as the first long-term residential recovery…
Provide a caring, advocating, safe, and educationally based environment for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Stages makes plays and tells stories that invite everyone to live more deeply and love more boldly.
The organization develops and operates high quality affordable housing and provides resident services for low-income families, seniors and people with special needs.
Welcome house provides a continuum of services to end homelessness and promote stability for each person we serve.
Meta house ends the generational cycle of addiction by healing women and strengthening families.
Second Thought Theatre provides an intimate and unique theatrical experience by empowering top local artists to take risks and by showcasing writers who boldly tackle the difficult and demanding questions of our rapidly changing world.
Educate, advocate, and empower to end violence.
Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.
Vera house, inc. prevents, responds to and partners to end domestic and sexual violence and other forms of abuse.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Skylight Theatre Company and the most unlike its peers is Manzanita Services Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 21 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 THE LAUREL CENTER INTERVENTION FOR DOMESTIC & SEXUAL VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds SKYLIGHT THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds WINCHESTER DAY NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW EARTH ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM INN ↗
- Who funds ABC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN VOICES PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds CONCERN HOTLINE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNUSUAL SUSPECTS THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE WELL INC ↗
- Who funds MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MANZANITA SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds HEDGEBROOK ↗
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: California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Paul & Monica Bancroft Family 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.
- Abc House Inc — 18% of income from government
- Bethlehem Inn — 15% 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.
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