· Private foundation
Roger J & Madeleine Traynor 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sylvestor Manor Educational Farm | $18,000 |
| University of California Santa Barb | $18,000 |
| Albany Schoolcare | $18,000 |
| San Diego Humane Society | $18,000 |
| Marin Symphony | $18,000 |
| Harvard University | $10,000 |
| International Fund Animal Welfare | $8,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Roger J & Madeleine Traynor 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. Read by recipient address, 13% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 18% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- SMSYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC6× · 2019–2025 · $74k · revenue +46%
- MSMARIN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION2× · 2022–2025 · $28k · revenue +1%
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC4× · 2019–2025 · $25k · revenue +54%
Funded once
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +167%- SDSAN DIEGO STATECAMPANILE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $20k
- SDSan Diego State Universityone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
HMC seeks to educate engineers, scientists, and mathematicians well versed in all of these areas and in the humanities, social sciences and the arts so that they may assume leadership in their fields with a clear understanding of the…
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 mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nontraditional Employment for Women. 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 51 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 48 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 SYLVESTER MANOR EDUCATIONAL FARM INC ↗
- Who funds SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY BAKERSFIELD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BAKERSFIELD CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR SANTA BARBARA CITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Environmental Law Institute ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY COUNTY SYMPHONY ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NONTRADITIONAL EMPLOYMENT FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Community Scholars DBA Berkeley Community Fund ↗
- Who funds Heyday ↗
- Who funds Coalition On Homelessness ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Conservation ↗
- Who funds The Aurora Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds The Rand Corporation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LAW INSTITUTE ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The California Endowment · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ford Foundation · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Roger J & Madeleine Traynor 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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lyme Art Association Inc — 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.