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RUBY'S PLACE INC
Ruby's place is an innovative nonprofit committed to ending domestic violence, human trafficking, and violent crime through hope, advocacy, and connection.
$2.0M
Granted FY2023
8
Grants
1
Communities
$240k
Largest
01What you fund
0163% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2023.
Human Services$514kCrime & Legal$353kHealth$274kEmployment$122kCivil Rights$96kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kArts & Culture$25kOther$817k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
personalhandjustice officeoffice victimscal oesoes youthyouth shelter
2020
justice medicalmedical offrampscal oesoes youthyouth shelterjustice officeoffice victims
2021
justice medicalmedical offrampscal oesoes youthyouth shelter
2022
justice medicalmedical offrampsjustice officeoffice victims
2023
subrecipient award
2024
subrecipient award
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2023 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $850k
$122,298
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
- COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER NETWORK$240,460
- SHADE MOVEMENT LLC$218,950
- SHADE MOVEMENT LLC$128,950
- ALAMEDA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE$122,298
- COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA$70,000
- PROGRESSIVE TRANSITIONS INC$68,968
- SUN GALLERY$25,380
- JUSTICE AT LAST INC$15,998
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–23, $514k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.8M · 9 repeat orgs$404k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
6
Total granted
$1.8M
$256k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+55%
+54%
Still filing today
89%
50%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCrime & LegalHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEmploymentArts & CultureOther
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
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE OF CALIFORNIA5× · 2019–2023 · $436k · revenue +48%
- CHCOMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER NETWORK3× · 2020–2023 · $274k · revenue +71%
- LNLOVE NEVER FAILS2× · 2019–2020 · $137k · revenue +839%
Funded once
- ACALAMEDA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEYone grant, 2022 · $172k
- PTPROGRESSIVE TRANSITION(S) INCone grant, 2021 · $34k
- AIANNIECANNONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $13k · revenue +54%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
California Human Trafficking
Crime & Legal
2
Bay Area Legal Aid
Bay area legal aid (baylegal) provides free civil legal services to low-income bay area residents.
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3
Alliance for Asian American Justice Inc
Coordinate pro bono legal assistance for victims of anti-Asian violence
Civil Rights
4
Jobs with Justice San Francisco
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,…
Employment
5
Alameda County Homeless Action Center
To provide legal services to homeless and low-income residents of Alameda County.
Housing & Shelter
6
San Francisco Trial Lawyers Assoc
To promote civil justice through education and trial advocacy.
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7
Family Violence Law Center
Family Violence Law Center ("FVLC") helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention…
Crime & Legal
8
Asian Americans Advancing Justice -
The mission of AAAJ-ALC is to promote, advance, and represent the legal and civil rights of Asian Pacific Islander (API) communities, recognizing that social, economic, political and racial inequalities continue to exist in the United…
Crime & Legal
9
All for the Family Legal Clinic Inc
Low Cost legal assistance to the Bay Area Community
Crime & Legal
10
Legal Access Alameda
Provides pro bono legal assistance to low-income Alameda County residents and litigants.
Crime & Legal
11
Bay Area Women Against Rape
The Organization provides 24 hour crisis response and trauma aftercare to people directly impacted by sexual violence. Services include hotline counseling, referral services, accompaniment, support groups, and community education.
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12
Unitedly
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.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Love Never Fails Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hayward Area Forum of the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
13 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$817,193Human Services$514,316Crime & Legal$353,361Health$273,960Employment$122,298Civil Rights$96,000Public Safety & Disaster$35,019Arts & Culture$25,380
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 COVENANT HOUSE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds LOVE NEVER FAILS ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE TRANSITIONS INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE AT LAST INC ↗
- Who funds API LEGAL OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA CTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds RUBICON PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds SUN GALLERY ↗
- Who funds ANNIECANNONS INC ↗
- Who funds LAS MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS ↗
- Who funds MISSEY ↗
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.
East Bay Community FoundationCA15.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · Family Violence Law Center · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation RUBY'S PLACE INC 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: ALAMEDA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~23 months of operating runway; revenue held over 4 filed years.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 834653250 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on ALAMEDA COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 23 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 53% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Ruby's Place Inc?
Find your warmest path to Ruby's Place Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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