· Private foundation
Ronald Philip Saturno 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $2,000 |
| KQED | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| PROJECT OPEN HAND | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FOUNTAIN | $1,000 |
| ALAMEDA CO COMM FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FD | $1,000 |
| MONO LAKE COMMITTEE | $1,000 |
| AMIGOS DE LAS AMERICANS | $1,000 |
| NATL TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRES | $1,000 |
| THE TM CENTER MFUSA | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of your 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.
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.
21 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- POProject Open Hand9× · 2017–2025 · $15k · revenue +139%
- BHBERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ4× · 2019–2023 · $9k · revenue +18%
- HRHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $3k
- SFSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCEone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
- 1C1ST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIone grant, 2024 · $2k
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.
The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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.
As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.
Our mission is to advance and protect the rights, dignity, and health of people living with hiv/aids in the bay area. continued on schedule owe accomplish this through direct legal representation by one of our staff attorneys, by careful…
The sequoia parks conservancy funds and enables projects and programs that protect, preserve, and provide access to the natural and cultural resources of sequoia and kings canyon national parks.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; we support health and wellness,advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.
The Berkeley Public Library Foundation (BPLF) amplifies the public investment to make a great public library extraordinary. To that end, we provide vital funds and ongoing advocacy to advance the Library's mission, vision, and strategic…
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Parks Alliance and the most unlike its peers is The Isabel Allende Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 36 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 KQED INC ↗
- Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY HIGH SCHOOL JAZZ ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN INC ↗
- Who funds Oakland LGBTQ Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Community Scholars DBA Berkeley Community Fund ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COASTSIDE STATE PARKS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC ↗
- Who funds GAY MEN'S HEALTH CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERDOG ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds THE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ISABEL ALLENDE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Ronald Philip Saturno 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.
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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