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Pony Barnes 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.

$4.7M
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$2.5MAnimals$1.5MRecreation & Sports$765kHuman Services$41kCivil Rights$40kYouth Development$23kPhilanthropy$16kInternational$10k
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,500,025
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Tower Foundation of San Jose Un$2,481,364
Jane Goodall Institute$1,500,025
American Camping Association Inc$694,695
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–23, $54k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Camps in Common: $13k → 10%Camp Ocean Pines: $15k → 12%YMCA OF METROPOLITAN LOS ANGELES: $15k → 14%Camps in Common: $12k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

2%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$93k · 3 repeat orgs$4.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +116% since the first grant, against -38% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
9

Total granted

$93k
$100k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+116%
-38%

Still filing today

67%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’25
Human ServicesCivil RightsAnimalsReligionInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    2× · 2022–2023 · $38k
  • TJ
    TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION
    2× · 2022–2023 · $31k · revenue +1%
  • CI
    Camps in Common
    2× · 2022–2023 · $24k · revenue +116%

Funded once

  • CO
    CAMP OCEAN PINES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +22%
  • YM
    Young Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angelesgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +40%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF CAMP NATOMA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $14k · revenue -38%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Fantasy Camps for Kids
Recreation & Sports
2
Inclusion Revolution Inc a California Nonprofit Corporation

Camp Revolution provides a safe, fun and motivational overnight outdoor camping experience for differently-abled teens and adults. Our goal is to empower each camper with confidence, boost self-esteem, experience outdoor adventures and…

Human Services
3
LandPaths

LandPaths' mission is to foster a love of the land in Sonoma County. LandPaths creates ways for people to experience the beauty, understand the value, and assist in healing the land in their local communities.

Environment
4
The Camp-Legends Inc
5
Camp Nakanawa

Empowering young women to have a lasting positive impact on society by strengthening their confidence, independence, and companionship for others.

Recreation & Sports
6
Camp Ten Trees

Camp Ten Trees was one of the first of its kind in the world and still offers the Pacific Northwest's only residential summer camp programming for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ) youth and their allies…

Recreation & Sports
7
The Camp At Sunshine Farm
Philanthropy
8
Camp Debbie Lou
9
Camp Kaleidoscope

Camp Kaleidoscope, with offices on the Stanford University campus, trains student leaders to support San Francisco Bay Area children who have or had a parent with cancer. Through a free, week-long overnight camp and year-round programming,…

Human Services
10
Discovery Camps Inc
Youth Development
11
The Campfire Foundation
Youth Development
12
Star Lake Camp

Star Lake Wilderness Camp provides an outdoor education, recreation and living experience where youth can unplug and grow in their physical, social and mental health. We intentionally welcome youth who are traditionally underserved, have…

Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tawonga Jewish Community Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Laurel Foundation. 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

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

The Tower Foundation of San Jose Un — $2,481,364 · OtherThe Tower Foundation of San Jose UnAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC — $694,695 · OtherAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC+3 more — $52,500 · OtherJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $1,500,025 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIF…Camps in Common — $24,000 · Human ServicesCAMP OCEAN PINES INC — $15,000 · Human ServicesYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $15,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF CAMP NATOMA INC — $14,000 · Human ServicesTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $31,000 · ReligionCAMP IT UP INC — $12,000 · Civil RightsBrave Trails — $10,000 · Civil RightsLAUREL FOUNDATION — $8,500 · PhilanthropyInland Empire Community Foundation — $7,743 · PhilanthropyCAMP LIGHTBULB INCORPORATED — $10,000 · International
Other$3,228,559Animals$1,500,025Human Services$68,000Religion$31,000Civil Rights$22,000Philanthropy$16,243International$10,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC — $694,695 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $31,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCamps in Common — $24,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCAMP OCEAN PINES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Metropolitan Los Angeles — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF CAMP NATOMA INC — $14,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCAMP IT UP INC — $12,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetBrave Trails — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP LIGHTBULB INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation — $7,743 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN8.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Pony Barnes 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Pony Barnes Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pony Barnes 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 16 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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