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Right From the Start

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$654k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
1
Organizations funded FY2019
0%
First-time grantees FY2019
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100% of Right From the Start’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of The Napa Valley, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’18
0
’19
0
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0
’21
0
’22
0
’23
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’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$654,022
Largest grant, FY2024
$654,022
Organizations funded a year
1 to 1
FY2018 to FY2019
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$30M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2019, 0% of the organizations Right From the Start funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20191$34k0%
FY20181$35kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Philanthropy$3.1MEducation$69k

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2024.

NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$654,022

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About Right From the Start

How much does Right From the Start give?
Right From the Start reported 1 grants totaling $654,022 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2019.
What does Right From the Start fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2019, its largest causes are Philanthropy (98%), Education (2%).
Does Right From the Start fund new organizations?
In FY2019, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Right From the Start 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.
Where is Right From the Start based?
Right From the Start 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 2 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-PF 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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