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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION$100,000
BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE$100,000
10000 DEGREES$100,000
CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS$100,000
THE ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK INC$100,000
REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT BERKELEY$100,000
PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA$100,000
826 VALENCIA$100,000
KQED INC$100,000
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION$100,000
REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM FOR ALL FOUNDATION$50,000
ACHIEVEMENT REWARDS FOR COLLEGE SCIENTISTS FOUNDATION INC$50,000
PARTNERSHIP FOR PUBLIC SERVICE INC$50,000
02The need
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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 (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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
WA
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MD
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Ramsay Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 94% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 89%.

Ramsay Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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%
+53%

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
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

  • 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 +39%
  • TL
    THE LITTLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • FW
    FOUR WINDSgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +255%
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
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.

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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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ignite; 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.
05the grantee network

49 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. 49 of the 72 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 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 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
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.

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 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

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 Ramsay Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ramsay Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's 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
    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

    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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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