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Ralphs Prather Ranch 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.

$72k
Granted FY2025still arriving
56
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$27k
Largest
01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$236kHuman Services$31kYouth Development$29kEducation$19kEnvironment$18kPublic Benefit$15kFood & Nutrition$15kCommunity Improvement$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k54 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $37k
$212
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALAIN RALPHS BENSON FOUNDATION$27,297
Individual grant recipient$10,101
Individual grant recipient$6,647
BUTTE VALLEY 4-H CLUB$3,750
SHASTA LAND TRUST$3,108
SHASTA COUNTY FARM BUREAU$2,266
GOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION$1,856
SHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION$1,680
FALL RIVER VALLEY LIBRARY$1,058
Individual grant recipient$1,000
TULELAKE ROTARY CLUB$1,000
St Francis Catholic Church$1,000
Monterey Co Fair Jr Livestock aucti$1,000
San Benito County Heritage Foundati$1,000
SAN BENITO JR LIVESTOCK SALE$1,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $4k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Tri County Community network: $106 → 14%INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIO: $2k → 14%INTERMOUNTAIN HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIO: $879 → 14%MAYERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $370 → 14%PALO CEDRO COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM: $265 → 14%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.
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$536k · 46 repeat orgs$39k to everyone else

46 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
42

Total granted

$536k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+61%

Still filing today

48%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther
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

  • GN
    GOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $25k · revenue +4%
  • SL
    SHASTA LAND TRUST
    6× · 2017–2025 · $14k · revenue +980%
  • THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $11k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • SR
    SHASTA REGIONAL COMM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • FU
    FIRST UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • SR
    SHIELD REGIONAL TRAINING CONSORTIUM
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -65%
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
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc

CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.

Unclassified
2
Sierra Foothill Conservancy

Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.

Environment
3
Siskiyou Land Conservancy

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.

Environment
4
Northern California Regional Land Trust

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…

Environment
5
Shasta Regional Soccer Association

Shasta regional soccer association was established to operate and maintain a community soccer facility in northern california.

Recreation & Sports
6
California State Sheriffs Association

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.

Crime & Legal
7
California Association of Resource Conservation Districts

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

Environment
8
Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust

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

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9
Friends of the Western Shasta Resource Conservation District

To provide education, exchange scientific information, and foster conservation or restoration of western shasta countys natural resources,especially in areas of watershed improvement, fuels, vegetation management,and erosion control.

Environment
10
Redwood County Historical Society

Historical preservation

Arts & Culture
11
Southern Humboldt Community Park

Southern Humboldt Community Park's mission is to own, operate and maintain the park land & buildings for the benefit of the southern Humboldt community & the general public.

—
12
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shasta County Farm Bureau; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 116 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
24/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ALAIN RALPHS BENSON FOUNDATION: $238,849 · PhilanthropyALAIN RALPHS BENSON FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE: $23,866 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATEIndividual grant recipient: $56,614 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $52,086 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBUTTE VALLEY 4-H CLUB: $23,750 · OtherBUTTE VALLEY 4-H CLUBTULELAKE ROTARY CLUB: $15,477 · OtherTULELAKE ROTARY CLUB+92 more: $120,939 · Other+92 moreGOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION: $25,071 · Human ServicesSHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE: $3,644 · Human ServicesMAYERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $3,314 · Human Services+2 more: $371 · Human ServicesSHASTA LAND TRUST: $14,267 · EnvironmentSan Benito County Heritage Foundation: $1,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $11,200 · Public BenefitBUTTE VALLEY AMBULANCE SERVICES INC: $2,500 · HealthSHASTA COUNTY CHEMICAL PEOPLE: $1,000 · HealthEMPIRE HOTEL EHARC INC DBA EMPIRE RECOVERY CENTER: $212 · Health+1 more: $106 · HealthSHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,480 · EducationROOTS FARM EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $500 · EducationCAL POLY CORPORATION: $500 · EducationREDDING CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $159 · Education+1 more: $53 · Education
Philanthropy$262,715Other$268,866Human Services$32,400Environment$15,767Public Benefit$11,200Health$3,818Education$3,692

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 budgetALAIN RALPHS BENSON FOUNDATION: $238,849 over 9y, 100% of budgetGOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION: $25,071 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE: $23,866 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSHASTA LAND TRUST: $14,267 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION: $11,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHASTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,862 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSHASTA COUNTY FARM BUREAU: $5,291 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetSHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE: $3,644 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION: $3,550 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAYERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC: $3,314 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFALL RIVER VALLEY LIBRARY CORPORATION: $3,102 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetBUTTE VALLEY AMBULANCE SERVICES INC: $2,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSHIELD REGIONAL TRAINING CONSORTIUM: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $2,480 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKLAMATH FALLS LITTLE LEAGUE: $2,200 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetDorris Lions Club: $1,875 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLASSEN PARK FOUNDATION: $1,748 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetExodus Farms Ministry: $1,212 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ASFMRA INC: $1,205 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK: $1,053 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Benito County Heritage Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSISKIYOU COUNTY FARM BUREAU: $1,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE EUPHRATES INSTITUTE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSHASTA COUNTY CHEMICAL PEOPLE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST: $753 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAL POLY CORPORATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERMOUNTAIN YOUTH SPORTSAAU OF THE US INC: $500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSustainable Conservation: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHASTA LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $371 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SISKIYOU LAND TRUST: $370 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalo Cedro Community Action Team: $265 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOTTONWOOD COMMUNITY PARK INC: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMPIRE HOTEL EHARC INC DBA EMPIRE RECOVERY CENTER: $212 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDDING CHRISTIAN SCHOOL: $159 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAVEN HUMANE SOCIETY: $159 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT CROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $159 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTRI COUNTY COMMUNITY NETWORK: $106 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN VALLEY CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $106 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ALAIN RALPHS BENSON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE ↗
  • Who funds SHASTA LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHASTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SHASTA COUNTY FARM BUREAU ↗
  • Who funds SHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAYERS HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds FALL RIVER VALLEY LIBRARY CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds California Deer Association ↗
  • Who funds BUTTE VALLEY AMBULANCE SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SHIELD REGIONAL TRAINING CONSORTIUM ↗
  • Who funds SHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KLAMATH FALLS LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds Dorris Lions Club ↗
  • Who funds LASSEN PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Exodus Farms Ministry ↗
  • Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF ASFMRA INC ↗

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.

The McConnell FoundationCA32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McConnell Foundation · Community Foundation of the North State · Marin Community Foundation · Dignity Health · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Ralphs Prather Ranch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ralphs Prather Ranch 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 →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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

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    How do I get to Ralphs Prather Ranch Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ralphs Prather Ranch 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 116 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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