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Rolph-Nicol Fund Tai Charitable Tr

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.

$68k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$170kReligion$95kHuman Services$43kEducation$21kEnvironment$21kScience & Tech$21kPhilanthropy$11kEmployment$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$3,563
Median grant
3
States reached
$930k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAL PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FNDN$10,689
CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES$3,563
UCSF FNDTN FKA ST MARY'S MED CTR FND$3,563
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC$3,563
EPISCOPAL CH ST MARY THE VIRGIN$3,563
THE SALVATION ARMY$3,563
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$3,563
GRACE CATHEDRAL$3,563
SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE$3,563
LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND$3,563
Individual grant recipient$3,563
ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$3,563
SAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST$3,563
MOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND$3,563
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$3,563
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $24k) 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRE: $3k → 10%MOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND: $4k → 10%MOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND: $4k → 10%MOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND: $4k → 10%MOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND: $4k → 10%MOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND: $3k → 10%MOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND: $3k → 10%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$368k · 18 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
4

Total granted

$368k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+148%

Still filing today

39%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureOther
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

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO SENIOR CENTER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +16%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +53%
  • ST
    SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $21k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • PE
    PROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • GI
    GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SAN FRANCISCO INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2023 · $3k
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
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
2
Ucsf Health Community Hospitals Fka Saint Francis Memorial Hospital

Ucsf health community hospital's mission statement is caring, healing, teaching, and discovering.

Health
3
Doheny Eye Institute

To further the conservation, improvement and restoration of human eyesight" (mrs. doheny - 1947).

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4
Southern California University of Health Sciences

The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…

Education
5
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
6
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Usc Arcadia Hospital Foundation

Mission statement the mission of usc arcadia hospital foundation educates and inspires the community to generously support quality medical care at usc arcadia hospital.

Health
8
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
9
California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health
10
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center

As a leading academic healthcare organization, our mission is to elevate the health status of the communities we serve.(see schedule o for continuation)(continued)-we deliver exceptional healthcare enhanced by research and education-we…

Health
11
Marin General Hospital

To be the destination for health and healing in the north bay.

Health
12
University of California San Francisco Foundation

Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mary's Medical Center Foundation; the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CAL PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FNDN: $63,936 · OtherCAL PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FNDNSAN FRANCISCO SENIOR CENTER: $21,312 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO SENIOR CENTERPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIA: $21,312 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN THE DIOCESE OF CALIFORNIAST FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $21,312 · OtherST FRANCIS FOUNDATIONSAINT JOHN THE EVANGELIST: $21,312 · OtherSAINT JOHN THE EVANGELISTTHE SALVATION ARMY: $18,217 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYIndividual grant recipient: $18,217 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND: $18,217 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND ANDTRINITY ST PETERS CHURCH: $17,886 · OtherTRINITY ST PETERS CHURCHAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $11,228 · OtherEPISCOPAL CHURCH OF ST: $11,228 · OtherEPISCOPAL CH ST MARY THE VIRGIN: $10,415 · Other+4 more: $12,848 · OtherAmerican Heart Association Inc: $21,312 · HealthAmerican Hear…ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $17,749 · HealthST MARY'S MED…AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,084 · HealthAMERICAN CANC…MOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND: $21,312 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $3,095 · Human ServicesTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $21,312 · EducationSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $21,312 · EnvironmentCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $21,312 · Arts & Culture
Other$267,440Health$49,145Human Services$24,407Education$21,312Environment$21,312Arts & Culture$21,312

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO SENIOR CENTER: $21,312 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $21,312 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $21,312 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND: $21,312 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE: $21,312 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $21,312 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $17,749 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $10,084 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $3,095 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.

  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SENIOR CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ZION HEALTH FUND ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗

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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA13.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Rolph-Nicol Fund Tai Charitable Tr funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rolph-Nicol Fund Tai Charitable Tr. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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 24 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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