· Private foundation
Ranae Desantis 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $324k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FURREVER CAT AND KITTEN RESCUE | $51,000 |
| BIONEERS | $49,000 |
| FAIRPLAY | $44,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $34,000 |
| KQED | $25,000 |
| AMAZON WATCH | $25,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON | $25,000 |
| GREEN AMERICA | $24,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $24,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $24,000 |
| MONTALVO ARTS CENTER | $24,000 |
| ACTERRA | $14,000 |
| CHARITY NAVIGATOR | $12,000 |
| NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| STROKE AWARENESS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $135k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 43 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY6× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +55%
- GOGRADES OF GREEN INC8× · 2017–2024 · $186k · revenue +50%
- AAActerra Action for a Healthy Planet8× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- NMNEW MUSEUM LOS GATOSone grant, 2024 · $47k
- VOVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue +51%
- TWTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $23k · revenue 0%
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.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…
Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Science Institute and the most unlike its peers is Naturopaths Without Borders. 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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
79 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. 79 of the 121 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 HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GRADES OF GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet ↗
- Who funds POPULATION CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SCIENCE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2 ↗
- Who funds HILLBROOK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds COLLECTIVE HERITAGE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NUEVA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills ↗
- Who funds Charity Navigator ↗
- Who funds LOS GATOS HIGH SCHOOL NEW MILLENNIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOS GATOS EDUCATION FOUNDATION DBA ONE COMMUNITY LG ↗
- Who funds GREEN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING ↗
- Who funds Pesticide Action Network North America ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB ↗
- Who funds RAINFOREST ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANCER CAREPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRPLAY INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL AND ENERGY STUDY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS WISH BOOK FUND INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Kirkorian Family Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · The Intuit 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 Ranae Desantis 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.
- Maryland Youth Ballet Inc — 6% of income from government
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.