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Red String Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERNATIONAL TRADE EDUCATION PROGRAMS DBA EXP | $10,000 |
| CITY SURF PROJECT | $6,000 |
| JUBILEE REACH | $6,000 |
| HEART OF IDA | $5,500 |
| MISSION SCIENCE WORKSHOP | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONTICA | $4,308 |
| KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $4,000 |
| SUNSET YOUTH SERVICES | $4,000 |
| RAINIER SCHOLARS | $4,000 |
| SOUND GENERATIONS | $3,585 |
| JAZZ ANGELS | $3,000 |
| DENISE LOUIE EDUCATION CENTER | $2,700 |
| ORANGE COUNTY BUDDIST CHURCH | $1,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $55k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 79% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- JRJubilee REACH5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +14%
- RSRAINIER SCHOLARS5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +109%
- CSCity Surf Project4× · 2022–2025 · $17k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- WSWOMENS SHELTERone grant, 2024 · $3k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELSone grant, 2024 · $2k
- LSLarkin Street Youth Servicesone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue +7%
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.
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
Ayc's mission is to meet the educational and social service needs of low-income, immigrant, at-risk, and adjudicated youth and families of all ethnicities, with a special cultural and linguistic competence with asian americans. by…
Telegraph Hill Neighborhood Center's mission is to provide opportunities for the individuals and families in the North Beach, Chinatown,Fisherman's wharf and Mission Bay neighborhoods to enrich their quality of life.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.
Provide in school programs that educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business, economics and improve the quality of their lives.
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…
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kidworks Community Development Corp and the most unlike its peers is Heart of Ida. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 31 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 Jubilee REACH ↗
- Who funds RAINIER SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds City Surf Project ↗
- Who funds KIDWORKS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds J-SEI INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA MONICA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUND GENERATIONS ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL TRADE EDUCATION PROGRAMS INC DBA EXP ↗
- Who funds Jazz Angel Inc ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds Heart of Ida ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST EDUCATION ACCESS ↗
- Who funds Collective Impact ↗
- Who funds United Playaz ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY ASIAN YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds LONG BEACH DAY NURSERY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds Denise Louie Education center ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds KIMOCHI INC ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels by ACC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE COMMUNITY YOUTH COUNCIL ↗
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: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Metta Fund · Asian Pacific Fund · United Way of King County · The California Endowment · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Seattle Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Tides Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Silicon Valley Community 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 Red String 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.
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.
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