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Rodan Fields Prescription for Change Foundation

The pfc foundation supports students in need on their journey to becoming a prescription for change in their communities by fostering belief in themselves.

$3.0M
Granted FY2021
7
Grants FY2021
4
States reached
$1.2M
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Youth Development$6.1MInternational$1.4MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.0MEducation$98kEnvironment$40kArts & Culture$26kPhilanthropy$26k
02FY2021 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 7 grants below total $2,545,721 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,996,870 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $451,149 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
  • $250k+4 grants · $2.5M
$262,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SVCF YOUTH EMPOWERMENT FUNDING ACCOUNT$1,205,000
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION$524,721
BUILDON$512,000
AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS$262,000
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES$17,000
FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE$15,000
EARTH TEAM$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $73k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $476k → 14%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $60k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $262k → 14%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $17k → 10%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $125k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $125k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $60k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 27% of Rodan Fields Prescription for Change Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Rodan Fields Prescription for Change Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.5M · 6 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

$7.5M
$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-4%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21
InternationalHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureEducationOther

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

  • BUILDON INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $4.7M · revenue +39%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2017–2021 · $1.0M · revenue +46%
  • LS
    Larkin Street Youth Services
    3× · 2019–2021 · $150k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • TC
    The Conscious Kid
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -94%
  • HT
    Hack the Hood Incgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $26k · revenue +111%
  • KO
    KNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue -62%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Enterprise for Youth

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.

Youth Development
2
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
3
California School-Age Consortium Inc

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…

4
StandUp for Kids

The mission of StandUp for Kids is to end the cycle of youth homelessness. We do this every day in cities across America. We carry out our mission through our volunteers, who go to the streets in order to find, stabilize and otherwise help…

5
Ten Strands

We strengthen the partnerships, strategies, and systems that advance environmental literacy, ensuring all California TK12 students thrive in sustainable, resilient schools and engage in meaningful environmental learning experiences, both…

Environment
6
Girls in Stem
Human Services
7
Silicon Valley Rising Action

Silicon Valley Rising Action takes on occupational segregation and income inequality with a comprehensive campaign to raise wages, create affordable housing, and build a tech economy that works for everyone.

8
Silicon Valley Youth Climate Action

Svyca empowers teens and young adults to combat climate change immediately through impactful education and policy initiatives. our youth work in focused climate action teams to ensure important climate policies and measures receive support…

Environment
9
Dev Mission

Train untapped young adults ages 16-24 for careers in the Tech industry so we can build wealth and prosperity in local diverse communities.

Youth Development
10
Root Change Inc

Root change's mission is to bring people together to question assumptions, think deeply, test ideas, and lead the way to a world built on social justice principles.

Employment
11
Los Angeles Team Mentoring Inc

Los Angeles Team Mentorings (LATM) mission is to guide middle school students growing up in challenging urban environments to recognize and reach their full potential. See Schedule O for more details.

Youth Development
12
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Foundation for Students Rising Above and the most unlike its peers is Beyond Differences. 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

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BUILDON INC — $4,660,013 · InternationalBUILDON INCINTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION — $1,546,721 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATIONSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $1,205,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley C…FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE — $74,250 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR S…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,048,040 · Human ServicesAmerican Nation…Larkin Street Youth Services — $149,500 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Y…The Conscious Kid — $50,000 · EducationEARTHTEAM — $40,000 · EnvironmentHack the Hood Inc — $26,250 · Arts & CultureKNIGHTS OF HEROES FOUNDATION — $18,700 · Youth DevelopmentBeyond Differences — $15,000 · Other
International$6,206,734Philanthropy$1,279,250Human Services$1,197,540Education$50,000Environment$40,000Arts & Culture$26,250Youth Development$18,700Other$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBUILDON INC — $4,660,013 over 5y, 7.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION — $1,546,721 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $1,205,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,048,040 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $149,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE — $74,250 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetEARTHTEAM — $40,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetBeyond Differences — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA14× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Rodan Fields Prescription for Change 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 17%
  • International Youth Foundation17% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Rodan Fields Prescription for Change Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rodan Fields Prescription for Change 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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