How much did RAINTREE FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of RAINTREE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

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2020

—

2021

scholarshipssanta barbara

2022

emergencyscholarshipssanta barbarayouth

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k18 grants · $79k
$10k–50k6 grants · $105k
$50k–250k6 grants · $362k
$250k+2 grants · $605k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$8.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

THE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA$305,000
CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$300,000
WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$100,000
GRAND TETON ASSOCIATION$55,000
YOSEMITE FOUNDATION DBA YOSEMITE CONSERVANCY$55,000
LOS PADRES BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$51,500
GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY$50,000
DIRECT RELIEF$50,000
UCSB FOUNDATION$25,000
SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE$20,000
GRAND CANYON YOUTH$15,000
AMERICAN AVALANCHE ASSOCIATION$10,000
FOODBANK OF SANTA BARBARA COUNTY INC$10,000
LOS PADRES FOREST ASSOCIATION$5,000

02The need

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 (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$14M · 57 repeat orgs$394k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +89% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$14M

$361k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%

+13%

Still filing today

67%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentEducationHealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $2.2M · revenue +26%
GRAND CANYON CONSERVANCY
8× · 2017–2024 · $685k · revenue +55%
GT
GRAND TETON ASSOCIATION
8× · 2017–2024 · $485k · revenue +29%

Funded once

PR
PROYECT RESCUE FLIGHT
one grant, 2018 · $60k
TF
THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -32%
FF
FOUNDATION FOR SBCC
one grant, 2022 · $50k

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.

Friends of Santa Cruz State Parks

Friends of santa cruz state parks is a vital partner to california state parks, creatively working to ensure parks and beaches throughout santa cruz county and coastal san mateo county are thriving and available to all.

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Santa Barbara County Farm Bureau

To protect and advance the social, economic, and educational interests of the farmers of santa barbara county.

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Northern Santa Barbara County

Nsbcuw is organized to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of communities in northern santa barbara county, california. nsbcuw works with individuals and organizations to identify and resolve pressing community issues through its…

Philanthropy

The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo

|to conserve and care for wildlands, farms, and ranches, and connect people to the land.

Environment

Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Rsabg aims to inspire, inform and educate the public and scientific community about california's native flora.

Environment

Shasta Land Trust

Conserve the beauty, character, and diversity of significant lands in far northern california

Environment

Santa Barbara Education Foundation

To promote community investment in public education to ensure equity and access to an innovative, world-class education that inspires confidence, competence, and creativity in every student in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

To advance UC Santa Barbara's capacity to educate future generations, unlock new discoveries, and enrich California and the world.

Education

Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory uses science to conserve birds and habitats. Our avian monitoring and habitat restoration activities provide critical data that we use to educate land managers and the public, and contribute to…

Environment

Santa Barbara Public Library Foundation

To support the long-term health and sustainability of the santa barbara public library.

Public Benefit

Santa Lucia Conservancy

To protect and steward in perpetuity the unique natural, cultural, and asthetic resources of the preserve and serve as a model of ecologically sustainable development to committees outside the preserve.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Project Rescue Flight. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/60

the rest of the field

445/4,735

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.

05the grantee network

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

56/56

Grantees still filing

45/56

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,093,676Education$4,823,490Environment$1,699,000Arts & Culture$494,500International$435,000Recreation & Sports$261,000Public Safety & Disaster$140,000

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.

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.

Santa Barbara FoundationCA57.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · June G Outhwaite Charitable Trust · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Walter J & Holly O Thomson Charitable · Alice Tweed Tuohy Foundation · Mosher Foundation · Towbes Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Fund for Santa Barbara Inc

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 organisation RAINTREE 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 260660120 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 28% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Raintree Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Raintree Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

RAINTREE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Raintree Foundation?

More from the funding graph

RAINTREE FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

56 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Raintree Foundation?

More from the funding graph