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Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation

The organization's mission is to aid, assist, promote, advocate and develop support of the public park facilities, recreational programming and community services, cultural activities, including visual performing and public art and civic events in the redwood city community. To advocate, advance, and develop support for parks,…

$351k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
5
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2022
67%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Median grant, FY2024
$10,700
Largest grant, FY2024
$308,959
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$4.5M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 67% of the organizations Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving5$346k60%
FY20223$100k67%
FY20211$50k100%
FY20202$189k0%
FY20192$102k50%
FY20183$27k33%
FY20174$56kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$309kArts & Culture$246kRecreation & Sports$223kHousing & Shelter$50kYouth Development$20kEducation$15kFood & Nutrition$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Redwood City$676,9147n/a
Unamesa Association$32,01021%
Bravemaker$20,68533%
Bay Area Scores$20,00011%
Redwood City Library Foundation$15,00015%
Casa Circulo Cultural$11,50912%
Pacific Islander Community Partnership$10,70018%
Noorani Dance$10,70016%
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center$10,70011%
Incredible Edible Mid-Peninsula$6,7501n/a
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All grantees of Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
City of Redwood City$676,9147n/a
Unamesa Association$32,01021%
Bravemaker$20,68533%
Bay Area Scores$20,00011%
Redwood City Library Foundation$15,00015%
Casa Circulo Cultural$11,50912%
Pacific Islander Community Partnership$10,70018%
Noorani Dance$10,70016%
Asian Pacific Islander Cultural Center$10,70011%
Incredible Edible Mid-Peninsula$6,7501n/a
Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation$5,00011%

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($50k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUnamesa Association: $32,010 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBravemaker: $20,685 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBay Area Scores: $20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRedwood City Library Foundation: $15,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCasa Circulo Cultural: $11,509 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPacific Islander Community Partnership: $10,700 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetNoorani Dance: $10,700 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetAsian Pacific Islander Cultural Center: $10,700 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetRedwood City Parks and Arts Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 FoundationCA17× affinity7 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Redwood City Parks and Arts 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.

About Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation

How much does Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation give?
Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $350,554 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (36%), Arts & Culture (28%), Recreation & Sports (26%).
Who are Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: City of Redwood City ($677k), Unamesa Association ($32k), Bravemaker ($21k).
Does Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
Where is Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation based?
Redwood City Parks and Arts Foundation is based in CA.

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 12 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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