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Ramsay Family 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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2017–2024.

Education$7.0MArts & Culture$965kFood & Nutrition$380kHealth$178kSocial Science$173kPublic Benefit$130kCivil Rights$128kYouth Development$113kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $134k
  • $50k–250k16 grants · $1.3M
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$50,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CAREY SCHOOL$250,000
SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL$250,000
CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS$100,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY$100,000
826 VALENCIA$100,000
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION$100,000
10000 DEGREES$100,000
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION$100,000
BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE$100,000
PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA$100,000
KQED INC$100,000
THE ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC$100,000
COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA$50,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC$50,000
PIEDMONT COMMUNITY CHURCH$50,000
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 (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PARCA PARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $5k → 7%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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
NH
WA
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Ramsay Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Ramsay Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.5M · 41 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
16

Total granted

$8.5M
$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+29%

Still filing today

63%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $835k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsAnimalsEnvironmentOther

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

  • SC
    SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL
    6× · 2019–2024 · $5.5M · revenue +24%
  • TC
    THE CAREY SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $410k · revenue +93%
  • ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · $360k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CS
    CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $33k · revenue +25%
  • TL
    THE LITTLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • FW
    FOUR WINDSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +429%

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
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
2
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
3
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

—
4
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
5
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
6
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

—
7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
9
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

—
10
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education

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

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%43%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr17%9%20–35yr11%10%35–55yr13%79%55yr+

The field is 24% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,921

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

49 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. 49 of the 72 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
34/49
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL — $5,515,000 · EducationSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL+11 more — $703,500 · Education+11 moreTHE CAREY SCHOOL — $410,000 · OtherTHE CAREY SCHOOLALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $360,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY…PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA — $172,500 · OtherPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE …ARCS FOUNDATION INC — $130,000 · OtherARCS FOUNDATION INCREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $117,500 · OtherREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY — $100,000 · OtherSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL (SCS) — $95,000 · Other+32 more — $750,850 · Other+32 moreKQED INC — $220,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $220,000 · Arts & CultureBERKELEY R…CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCORPORATIO…SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCI…SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCI…CAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA — $75,000 · Arts & CultureCAMPAIGN F…OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA — $55,000 · Arts & CultureOAKLAND MU…NATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $85,000 · HealthAmbulatory Surgery Access Coalition — $60,000 · HealthHypopara Research Foundation — $10,000 · HealthALS Network — $10,000 · HealthCraig Hospital Foundation — $10,000 · HealthUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 · Recreation & SportsBUFFALO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC — $50,000 · Recreation & SportsWashington International Horse Show — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsFOUR WINDS — $20,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE MILO FOUNDATION — $40,000 · AnimalsCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA — $32,500 · AnimalsWELL TRAINED HORSES — $12,500 · AnimalsPIEDMONT BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION — $42,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL — $16,000 · Environment
Education$6,218,500Other$2,135,850Arts & Culture$870,000Health$175,000Recreation & Sports$150,000Animals$85,000Environment$58,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL — $5,515,000 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetTHE CAREY SCHOOL — $410,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $360,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKQED INC — $220,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE — $220,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCATE SCHOOL — $180,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA — $172,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $140,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION — $117,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budget826 Valencia — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget10000 DEGREES — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR THE PRESERVATION OF MISSION SAN ANTONIO DE PADUA — $75,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetTHE ATHENIAN SCHOOL — $70,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe President and Trustees of Colby College — $69,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAmbulatory Surgery Access Coalition — $60,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA — $55,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSPARK — $52,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetBUFFALO THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC — $50,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetIGNITE — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC NO CA CHAP — $50,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetPIEDMONT BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION — $42,500 over 6y, 7.2% of budgetTHE MILO FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA — $32,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $26,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWashington International Horse Show — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBridging Bionics Foundation — $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNATIONAL OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP SCHOOL — $16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Film Society — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGROTON SCHOOL — $14,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL — $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWELL TRAINED HORSES — $12,500 over 2y, 14% of budgetHypopara Research Foundation — $10,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetALS Network — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRIVE FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetPARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTogether SF — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUGAR BOWL SKI TEAM & ACADEMY — $1,000 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.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Esb Charitable Founda…The David and Lucile …Jewish Community Fede…The James Irvine Foun…East Bay Community Fo…The Goldman Sachs Cha…Lindsay & Alex Ramsay…The John M Bryan Fami…Laural Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA26.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Esb Charitable Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The James Irvine Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Lindsay & Alex Ramsay Foundation · The John M Bryan Family Fund · Laural 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 Ramsay 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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 Ramsay Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ramsay Family 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 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Source object · view filing

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