How much does Ranae Desantis Foundation give?

Ranae Desantis Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $403,153 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 47 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Ranae Desantis Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (27%), Education (14%), Animals (10%).

Who are Ranae Desantis Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Humane Society Silicon Valley ($190k), Grades of Green Inc ($186k), Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet ($178k).

Does Ranae Desantis Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Ranae Desantis Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as Ranae Desantis Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Bright Funds Foundation.

Where is Ranae Desantis Foundation based?

Ranae Desantis Foundation is based in CA.

Ranae Desantis Foundation

Ranae Desantis Foundation at a glance

· 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.

$403k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$51k

Largest

01What it funds

0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.3MEducation$653kAnimals$466kArts & Culture$419kHealth$295kRecreation & Sports$197kScience & Tech$184kCommunity Improvement$163kOther$0

02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k7 grants · $28k
$10k–50k12 grants · $324k
$50k–250k1 grant · $51k

$24,000

Median grant

States reached

$10.0M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
FURREVER CAT AND KITTEN RESCUE	$51,000
BIONEERS	$49,000
FAIRPLAY	$44,000
SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION	$34,000
AMAZON WATCH	$25,000
KQED	$25,000
HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON	$25,000
MONTALVO ARTS CENTER	$24,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$24,000
GREEN AMERICA	$24,000
Individual grant recipient	$24,000
ACTERRA	$14,000
CHARITY NAVIGATOR	$12,000
NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION	$6,000
STROKE AWARENESS FOUNDATION	$5,000

02The need

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, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$4.2M · 56 repeat orgs$489k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against +27% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$4.2M

$399k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+27%

Still filing today

79%

46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & 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

HS
HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY
6× · 2017–2025 · $190k · revenue +55%
GO
GRADES OF GREEN INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $186k · revenue +50%
AA
Acterra Action for a Healthy Planet
8× · 2017–2025 · $178k · revenue +36%

Funded once

NM
NEW MUSEUM LOS GATOS
one grant, 2024 · $47k
VO
VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INCgraduated
one grant, 2018 · $45k · revenue +51%
C
CSPI
one grant, 2024 · $23k

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.

Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment

Rainforest Action Network

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.

Environment

Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment

The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International

Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment

California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education

Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International

Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment

California Environmental Justice Alliance

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…

Environment

Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine

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.

Environment

The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education

CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Science Institute; 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.

04the grantee network

79 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

75/79

Grantees still filing

53/79

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,353,243Environment$810,682Education$433,099Animals$358,993Arts & Culture$286,260Social Science$279,838Philanthropy$206,300

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

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 Community FoundationCA31.4× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024

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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 · 0–60%

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.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

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