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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 FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k31 grants · $101k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $70k
$3,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COX SCIENCE CENTER AND AQUARIUM$25,000
THE THACHER SCHOOL$20,000
JUPITER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$15,000
CRAIG FOUNDATION$10,000
CLEVELAND CLINIC$7,500
CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE OFFICERS FOUNDATION$5,000
DELTA WATERFOWL$5,000
BONEFISH AND TARPON TRUST$5,000
FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA$5,000
NATIVE FISH SOCIETY$5,000
WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY$5,000
CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION$5,000
OCEAN CONSERVANCY$5,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING$5,000
THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP$5,000
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 (FY17–24, $32k) 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.

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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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
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IL
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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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$802k · 32 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

32 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
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Total granted

$802k
$1k

Still filing today

78%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentAnimalsHealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TT
    The Thacher School Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $150k · revenue +32%
  • CS
    Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +844%
  • DW
    Delta Waterfowl Foundation
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • SA
    SEA ANGELS GREEN BEACH CLEAN
    one grant, 2019 · $1k
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
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation

To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.

Animals
2
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
3
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Florida Wildlife Federation

To safeguard Florida's water, wildlife, and wild spaces by taking action today to prevent irreversible loss tomorrow.

Animals
6
Fishery Foundation of California

To improve fisheries resources in the state of california.

Animals
7
The Ocean Foundation

As the only community foundation for the ocean, The Ocean Foundation's 501(c)(3) mission is to improve global ocean health, climate resilience, and the blue economy. We create partnerships to connect people in the communities in which we…

Environment
8
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
9
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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10
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
11
California Ocean Science Trust

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…

Environment
12
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Captains for Clean Water Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wild Steelhead Coalition. 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

31 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. 31 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/31
Grantees still filing
21/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

The Thacher School Inc: $150,000 · EducationThe Thacher School I…+2 more: $2,000 · EducationOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $31,500 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCYWESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY: $30,000 · EnvironmentWESTERN RIVERS CON…WILD STEELHEAD COALITION: $24,000 · EnvironmentWILD STEELHEAD COA…THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $18,000 · EnvironmentTHE EVERGLADES FOU…THE OUTSIDE FOUNDATION: $14,500 · EnvironmentTHE OUTSIDE FOUNDA…FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC: $12,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF THE EVE…+2 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $36,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATIONMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING: $25,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERINGCALTROUT: $16,000 · OtherCALTROUTVANDERBILT SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING: $9,000 · OtherCLEVELAND CLINIC: $7,500 · OtherHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $31,500 · OtherHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS I…CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE OFFICERS FOUNDATION: $20,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA WILDLIFE OFFICERS…ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC: $18,500 · OtherALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART R…CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $17,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUND…THE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC: $8,000 · Other+5 more: $20,020 · Other+5 moreDelta Waterfowl Foundation: $45,000 · AnimalsDelta Waterfowl…Native Fish Society Inc: $26,000 · AnimalsNative Fish Soc…BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC: $24,000 · AnimalsBONEFISH & TARP…CALIFORNIA TROUT INC: $5,000 · AnimalsTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 · AnimalsFISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I: $5,000 · AnimalsCox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: $82,500 · Arts & CultureCox Science …CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $9,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA A…Craig Hospital Foundation: $43,000 · HealthCraig Hospi…ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $17,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S…PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC: $16,000 · HealthPLANNED PAR…American Heart Association Inc: $10,000 · HealthAmerican He…Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc: $40,000 · Philanthropy
Education$152,000Environment$135,000Other$208,520Animals$110,000Arts & Culture$91,500Health$86,000Philanthropy$40,000

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

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
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 The Thacher School Inc ↗
  • Who funds Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc ↗
  • Who funds Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Craig Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN RIVERS CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Native Fish Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds BONEFISH & TARPON TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds WILD STEELHEAD COALITION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE OFFICERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OUTSIDE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE EVERGLADES INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds THE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
  • Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds FISH & WILDLIFE FOUNDATION OF FLORIDA I ↗
  • Who funds CAPTAINS FOR CLEAN WATER INC ↗
  • Who funds Florida Wildlife Corridor Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Rough-J-Ranch Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rough-J-Ranch Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Native Fish Society Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Fish & Wildlife Foundation of Florida I: 1% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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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.

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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