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Rough-J-Ranch 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.

$171k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
35
Grants FY2025
31
Organizations funded FY2024
16%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$3,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
19 to 31
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
16
Total assets, FY2025
$3.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 16% of the organizations Rough-J-Ranch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthPhilanthropyAnimalsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving35$171k17%
FY202431$125k16%
FY202326$110k0%
FY202226$105k0%
FY202126$81k15%
FY202022$70k9%
FY201922$64k9%
FY201819$52k11%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Environment$186kEducation$176kHealth$161kAnimals$99kScience & Tech$92kPublic Safety & Disaster$55kYouth Development$40kRecreation & Sports$17k

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
ND
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
CA
CO
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($70k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rough-J-Ranch Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Thacher School Inc: $150,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $82,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $45,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCraig Hospital Foundation: $43,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Fire Foundation: $36,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetHuckleberry Youth Programs Inc: $31,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetOcean Conservancy: $31,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Rivers Conservancy: $30,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNative Fish Society Inc: $26,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetBonefish & Tarpon Trust Inc: $24,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetWild Steelhead Coalition: $24,000 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetCalifornia Wildlife Officers Foundation: $20,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetAll Hands and Hearts Smart Response Inc: $18,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Everglades Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia State Parks Foundation: $17,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetThe Outside Foundation: $14,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetFriends of the Everglades Inc: $12,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Academy of Sciences: $9,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fit Kids Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Trout Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTheodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaptains for Clean Water Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetColgate University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDuke University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

PatagoniaorgCA15.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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How do I get to Rough-J-Ranch Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Rough-J-Ranch 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.

About Rough-J-Ranch Foundation

How much does Rough-J-Ranch Foundation give?
Rough-J-Ranch Foundation reported 35 grants totaling $171,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Rough-J-Ranch Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (23%), Education (21%), Health (20%).
Who are Rough-J-Ranch Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Thacher School Inc ($150k), Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ($83k), Delta Waterfowl Foundation ($45k).
Does Rough-J-Ranch Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Rough-J-Ranch Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Rough-J-Ranch Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Rough-J-Ranch Foundation based?
Rough-J-Ranch Foundation is based in CA.

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 39 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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