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RANCHO SANTA FE GARDEN CLUB
The specific purpose of this organization is to further the development of charitable horticultural and charitable conservation activities, both within and outside the community of rancho santa fe
$146k
Granted FY2024
11
Grants
1
Communities
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 51% of RANCHO SANTA FE GARDEN CLUB’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $77k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$86k
Total assets
Largest grants
- THE AGRARIAN INSTITUTE$25,000
- DARNALL CHARTER SCHOOL$11,880
- COASTAL ROOTS FARM$10,000
- SAMUEL LAWRENCE FOUNDATION$10,000
- DVINE PATH$10,000
- CO-HARVEST FOUNDATION$10,000
- ENCINITAS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDAT$9,100
- COMMUNITY MONTESSORI$8,500
- GOOD SHEPHERD MINISTRY CENTER$8,482
- LIBERTY CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL$6,750
- CHALLENGER MIDDLE SCHOOL$5,624
02The need
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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 (FY18–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$407k · 17 repeat orgs$251k to everyone else
17 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
17
35
Total granted
$407k
$222k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+29%
+48%
Still filing today
65%
23%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesEmploymentYouth DevelopmentReligionOther
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
- CRCostal Roots Farm6× · 2019–2024 · $54k · revenue +101%
- DCDarnall Charter School5× · 2019–2024 · $52k · revenue +29%
- TITERI INC2× · 2019–2020 · $21k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- HEHANCOCK ELEMENTARY SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $11k
- MVMesa Verde Middle Schoolone grant, 2022 · $10k
- VAVista Academy Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +102% · 69% of their budget
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.
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San Diego Canyonlands Inc
To promote, protect and restore the natural habitats in San Diego County's canyons and creeks. We do this by fostering education and ongoing community involvement in stewardship and advocacy, and by collaborating with other organizations.
Environment
2
Cabrillo College Foundation
To provide student scholarships, increase student success, and support of academic programs.
Education
3
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
4
Ecology Action of Santa Cruz
Empower individuals, businesses, and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability.
Environment
5
Santa Barbara Education Foundation
To promote community investment in public education to ensure equity and access to an innovative, world-class education that inspires confidence, competence, and creativity in every student in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.
Education
6
Living Classroom
Living Classroom's mission is to inspire children to learn about and value the natural world through garden-based education.
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7
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden
Rsabg aims to inspire, inform and educate the public and scientific community about california's native flora.
Environment
8
San Diego Food System Alliance
The mission of the San Diego Food System Alliance is to cultivate a healthy, sustainable, and just food system in San Diego County. We envision vibrant community food systems rooted in justice and sustainability, where everyone has…
Food & Nutrition
9
California Farmland Trust
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
Environment
10
California College of the Arts
To educate students of diverse backgrounds in areas of fine arts, architecture, design, & writing.
Education
11
Sonoma Ecology Center
The Mission of Sonoma Ecology Center is to work with our community to enhance and sustain ecological health in the Sonoma valley.
Environment
12
Equitable Food Initiative
EFIs mission is to transform the produce industry and the lives of farmworkers by facilitating collaboration among workers, agricultural employers, retail buyers and consumer advocates.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rancho Santa Fe Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Agrarian Institute. 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
19 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$346,540Environment$111,900Education$96,580Human Services$40,076Arts & Culture$25,200Religion$21,257Philanthropy$17,000
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 THE AGRARIAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Costal Roots Farm ↗
- Who funds Darnall Charter School ↗
- Who funds Samuel Lawrence Foundation ↗
- Who funds Solutions for Change ↗
- Who funds TERI INC ↗
- Who funds The Ecology Center ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN PASQUAL ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds RANCHO SANTA FE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Healthy Day Partners ↗
- Who funds DVINE PATH ↗
- Who funds Vista Academy Foundation ↗
- Who funds ECOLIFE Conservation ↗
- Who funds MIRACOSTA COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds ARROYO PROPERTY AT THE RSF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO ↗
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 Diego FoundationCA30.4× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · East County Economic Development · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Wild Wisdom Foundation Inc (Formerly · Coastal Community Foundation · Pratt Memorial Fund · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · David C Copley 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 organisation RANCHO SANTA FE GARDEN CLUB 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Vista Academy Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 330574293 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Vista Academy Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 69% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club?
Find your warmest path to Rancho Santa Fe Garden Club through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines