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Robert Lee Hudson 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $202k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY | $50,000 |
| QUEEN OF THE VALLEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| 10000 Degrees | $50,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $42,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $40,000 |
| OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| Napa Valley Festival Association | $25,000 |
| PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Puertas Abiertas Community Resource Center | $10,000 |
| THE KITCHEN SISTERS | $10,000 |
| TJ MARTELL Foundation | $10,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +19% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 6 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- QOQUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $461k · revenue +6%
- CMChamber Music in Napa Valley8× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +7% · 36% of their budget
- TTThe Thacher School Inc5× · 2017–2021 · $262k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- ANAuction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valleyone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -65%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $25k
- OMONE MINDone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
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…
The napa valley museum is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to enriching the cultural fabric of our community through exhibitions, collections, educational programs and creative activities that promote knowledge and…
Ensure the economic viability and sustainability of the Napa Valley appellation through marketing, promotional, educational and training programs, work on critical industry issues, and enhance the well-being of the Napa County Community.
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…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
To present a world class chamber music festival in the Napa Valley.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The mission of the land trust of napa county is to preserve the character of napa county by permanently protecting land. the organization's vision is the protection of unique natural resources, proactive preservation of the scenic beauty,…
Mills college is an independent liberal arts college for women and gender nonbinary students, with graduate programs for all genders. the college educates students to think critically and communicate responsibly and effectively, to accept…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of the Napa Valley and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 52 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 QUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chamber Music in Napa Valley ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COLLABRIA CARE ↗
- Who funds Auction Napa Valley Collective Napa Valley ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN SISTERS ↗
- Who funds ONE MIND ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds WOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Puertas Abiertas Community Resource Center ↗
- Who funds TJ MARTELL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE PEREGRINE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds IMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds Napa Valley Vine Trail Coalition ↗
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: Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Npt Charitable Asset Trust · Double R Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · East Bay 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 Robert Lee Hudson 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.
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
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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