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Ranadive Foundation at a glance

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Ranadive 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.

$195k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of Ranadive Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to National Philanthropic Trust, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Ranadive Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 8 organizations, $195k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’17
5
’18
3
’19
1
’20
3
’21
8
’22
8
’23
4
’24
1
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$1.3MAnimals$190kInternational$180kEducation$136kYouth Development$85kArts & Culture$50kHealth$49kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kOther$0
02FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $140k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC DAVIS$50,000
SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION$20,000
AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION$20,000
COLLEGE TRACK$10,000
ATHERTON POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE$10,000
MAGEN DAVID ADOM$10,000
MINNIE CANNON SCHOLARSHIP FUND$10,000
SEQUOIA HOSPITAL$10,000
SAN MATEO SHERIFFS ACTIVITIES LEAGUE$10,000
SACRAMENTO LOAVES AND FISH$10,000
SACRAMENTO POLICE FOUNDATION$10,000
THEATRE FOR CHILDREN$10,000
JOY AND CULTURE FOUNDATION$10,000
LAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY18–18, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $15k → 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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$576k · 11 repeat orgs$265k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$576k
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+55%

Still filing today

73%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsInternationalEducationHuman ServicesOther
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

  • JP
    Jaws & Paws Inc
    5× · 2018–2022 · $175k · revenue +92%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION
    4× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue +155%
  • TS
    THE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $85k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $31k
  • M
    MCASD
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +55%
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
Target Als Foundation Inc

Our mission is to break down barriers to als research to find effective treatments. by uniting academia, the pharma and biotech industry, government, venture capital, related nonprofits, and the als community, we aim to overcome the…

Education
2
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
3
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
4
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
5
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
6
National Science and Technology Medals Foundation Inc

The nstmf's mission is to build inclusive stem communities across the united states. fundamental to these communities are the significant, inspirational connections we foster between the individuals who have received national recognition…

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7
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
8
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall

The organization is a non-partisan, membership based speakers' forum that connects business leaders, community members, and engaged individuals with shared interest in local, national, and global affairs. it provides an open and accessible…

International
9
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
10
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Philanthropy
11
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
12
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Philanthropic Trust; the most unlike its peers is Jaws & Paws Inc. 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

20 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. 20 of the 29 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
12/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,348,600 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTUC DAVIS: $50,000 · OtherUC DAVISIndividual grant recipient: $31,265 · OtherIndividual grant …SEQUOIA HOSPITAL: $30,000 · OtherSEQUOIA HOSPITALMCASD: $25,000 · OtherMCASDROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $20,000 · OtherROBERT F KENNEDY …SACRAMENTO LOAVES AND FISH: $20,000 · OtherSACRAMENTO LOAVES…MINNIE CANNON SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $14,400 · OtherUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $25,000 · OtherUNITED STATES FUN…Sacramento Police Foundation Inc: $30,000 · OtherSacramento Police…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 · Other+9 more: $73,500 · Other+9 moreJaws & Paws Inc: $175,000 · AnimalsJaws & Pa…Friends of the Folsom Zoo Inc: $15,000 · AnimalsFriends o…THE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $145,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $85,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLLEGE TRACK: $35,000 · EducationLAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationTHEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$1,348,600Other$334,165Animals$190,000Public Safety & Disaster$145,000Youth Development$85,000Education$47,000Arts & Culture$40,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,348,600 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJaws & Paws Inc: $175,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDIA FOUNDATION: $145,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE SHAQUILLE O'NEAL FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSacramento Police Foundation Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROBERT F KENNEDY CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HUMAN RIGHTS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Folsom Zoo Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetLAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAtherton Police Activities League: $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetKIF1AORG INC: $5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWine to Water: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTH HUB SF: $3,500 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The US Charitable Gif…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA13× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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 Ranadive Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Ranadive 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 29 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home