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Ralphs Prather Ranch Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $27k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALAIN RALPHS BENSON FOUNDATION | $27,297 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,012 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,945 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH S | $3,886 |
| GOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION | $2,975 |
| SHIELD REGIONAL TRAINING CONSORTIUM | $2,500 |
| TULELAKE ROTARY CLUB | $2,000 |
| LASSEN PARK FOUNDATION | $1,642 |
| SHASTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,500 |
| SHASTA COUNTY CHEMICAL PEOPLE | $1,000 |
| HERITAGE FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| SAN BENITO JR LIVESTOCK SALE | $1,000 |
| FALL RIVER VALLEY FIRE PROT DISTRIC | $1,000 |
| KLAMATH FALLS LITTLE LEAGUE | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE LAKEVIEW CEMETERY | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
37 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- GNGOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +4%
- SLSHASTA LAND TRUST5× · 2017–2023 · $11k · revenue +980%
THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $10k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- SRSHASTA REGIONAL COMM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5k
- FUFIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $3k
- BVBUTTE VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOLELEMENTARone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…
To support the role of Sheriff as the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in each county and to speak as a collective statewide voice on matters of public safety.
The Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust works to protect and conserve agricultural lands, open space, and wildlife habitat in Yuba, Sutter, and Colusa counties for the benefit of current and future generations
Shasta regional soccer association was established to operate and maintain a community soccer facility in northern california.
Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.
The Siskiyou Land Conservancy is a state and federally approved non-profit organization that assists landowners who want to protect the natural values of their land, either through purchase or establishment of conservation easements.
CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
To advane the conservation and orderly development of Land, Water, and other natural resources in California and to create statewide awareness of the urgency for conserving and developing California's natural resources
Bear Yuba Land Trust exists to conserve and protect the natural, working, and cultural lands in the Bear and Yuba River watersheds and empower a healthy, resilient community through nature access and education.
We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.
The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Rangeland Trust and the most unlike its peers is Alain Ralphs Benson Foundation. 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.
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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
34 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. 34 of the 89 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 ALAIN RALPHS BENSON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE ↗
- Who funds GOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds SHASTA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHASTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHASTA COUNTY FARM BUREAU ↗
- Who funds California Deer Association ↗
- Who funds MAYERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BUTTE VALLEY AMBULANCE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHIELD REGIONAL TRAINING CONSORTIUM ↗
- Who funds KLAMATH FALLS LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds FALL RIVER VALLEY LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LASSEN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Dorris Lions Club ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ASFMRA INC ↗
- Who funds SISKIYOU COUNTY FARM BUREAU ↗
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.
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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 Ralphs Prather Ranch 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.
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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