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Riskpress Foundation at a glance

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Riskpress 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.

$107k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Arts & Culture$373kEducation$203kEnvironment$84kCrime & Legal$66kFood & Nutrition$19kPhilanthropy$17kHuman Services$12kHealth$10k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $51k
$35,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$626k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Exodus Ensemble$51,000
Sebastopol Center for the Art$35,000
Advocates for Justice$11,000
Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY17–19, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%DOVETAIL LEARNING: $10k → 9%DOVETAIL LEARNING: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Riskpress Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Riskpress Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$681k · 13 repeat orgs$99k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
12

Total granted

$681k
$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+34%

Still filing today

69%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesHealthOther
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

  • SC
    Sebastopol Center for the Arts
    7× · 2018–2025 · $108k · revenue +64%
  • TC
    The Climate Center
    4× · 2018–2021 · $81k · revenue +178%
  • EE
    EXODUS ENSEMBLE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $81k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • NM
    NEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2022 · $27k · revenue -2%
  • From The Heart Productionsgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +119%
  • YB
    YERBA BUENA COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTR
    one grant, 2017 · $13k
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.

1
Northern California Center for the Arts

The Center for the Arts is a cultural and educational organization that promotes and presents the literary, visual and performing arts for the enrichment of the community.

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company

Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Center for the Book

San Francisco Center For The Book is a center of inspiration for the Book Arts world, featuring the art and craft of letterpress printing, bookbinding, and artists' bookmaking. We are dedicated to the art of the book!

Education
4
Opera Southwest

Professional production of opera for the public, and education about opera and the performing arts for audiences of all ages.

Arts & Culture
5
Center for the Art of Translation

Bay Area community and increases access to literature locally and globally. The Centers publications, events, and educational programming build audiences for literature in translation, enrich the library of vital literary works, nurture…

Arts & Culture
6
San Luis Obispo Repertory Theatre

Slo rep strengthens theatre's cultural influence and enriches the central coast by producing professional theatre, nurturing artists and providing theatre education for children and adults.

Arts & Culture
7
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
8
Sonoma Plein Air Foundation

Promotion of arts education

Arts & Culture
9
Di Rosa Preserve

Located in scenic Napa Valley, di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art engages its community in the connective power of art and nature through its permanent collection of Northern California art, contemporary exhibitions, and thought-provoking…

Arts & Culture
10
California Bach Society Inc

Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…

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11
Shotgun Players

Shotgun Players is a company of artists determined to create bold, relevant, affordable theatre that inspires and challenges audience and artist alike to re-examine our lives, our community, and the ever-changing world around us.

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Ltd; the most unlike its peers is Sonoma Botanical Garden. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
13/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sebastopol Center for the Arts: $108,219 · Arts & CultureSebastopol Center for the ArtsEXODUS ENSEMBLE: $81,000 · Arts & CultureEXODUS ENSEMBLEBAY AREA CABARET INC: $49,000 · Arts & CultureBAY AREA CABARET INCCATAMARAN LITERARY READER: $19,452 · Arts & CultureCATAMARAN LITERARY READERFrom The Heart Productions: $15,000 · Arts & Culture+7 more: $30,500 · Arts & Culture+7 moreSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $145,599 · EducationSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIAThe Climate Center: $81,200 · EducationThe Climate CenterNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $27,231 · EducationNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ART…ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE INC: $66,000 · OtherADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE INCNew Mexico School for the Art: $49,098 · OtherNew Mexico School for the …PERFORMING ARTISTS COALITION FOR TH: $30,000 · OtherPERFORMING ARTISTS COALITI…YERBA BUENA COMMUNITY BENEFIT DISTR: $12,579 · OtherYERBA BUENA COMMUNITY BENE…Witter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Inc: $12,304 · OtherWitter Bynner Foundation F…INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATION RESEARCH IF: $8,677 · Other+2 more: $4,000 · OtherFOOD FOR THOUGHT: $18,000 · Food & NutritionDovetail Learning Inc: $12,339 · Human ServicesFACE TO FACE SONOMA COUNTY AIDS NETWORK: $10,000 · HealthSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Arts & Culture$303,171Education$254,030Other$182,658Food & Nutrition$18,000Human Services$12,339Health$10,000Philanthropy$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA: $145,599 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSebastopol Center for the Arts: $108,219 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetThe Climate Center: $81,200 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEXODUS ENSEMBLE: $81,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetBAY AREA CABARET INC: $49,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE: $27,231 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT: $18,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDovetail Learning Inc: $12,339 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetWitter Bynner Foundation For Poetry Inc: $12,304 over 2y, 10% of budgetFACE TO FACE SONOMA COUNTY AIDS NETWORK: $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOpera Parallle: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSITE SANTA FE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLOVERDALE PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetSonoma Botanical Garden: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAMBDA LITERARY FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Sonoma County Communi…McNabb FoundationHorizons FoundationMarin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…Exchange Bank Foundat…Gale Family FoundationSanta Fe Community Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…The Pfizer Foundation…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA23.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Horizons Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Exchange Bank Foundation · Gale Family Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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 · 0–15%
    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.

    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 27 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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