· Public charity
Save the Redwoods League
SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE protects and restores redwood forests and connects people with their peace and beauty so these wonders of the natural world flourish.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $97k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $464k
- $250k+4 grants · $3.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR AMERICAS PUBLIC LANDS | $2,000,000 |
| YUROK TRIBE FISHERIES DEPARTMENT | $566,683 |
| INTERTRIBAL SINKYONE WILDERNESS COUNCIL | $279,855 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY | $272,675 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS | $85,848 |
| BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT | $80,000 |
| CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF PARKS AND RECREATION | $76,000 |
| COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY | $65,553 |
| BOARD OF REGENTS NEVADA SYSTEM OF HIGHER EDUCATION | $56,437 |
| CAL POLY HUMBOLDT SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| NORTHERN ARIZONA UNIVERSITY | $49,314 |
| CAL POLY HUMBOLDT FOUNDATION | $20,933 |
| HUMBOLDT COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION | $15,602 |
| GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY | $11,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
39 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 12 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
- CPCAL POLY HUMBOLDT SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $2.3M · revenue +136%
- LLandPaths5× · 2017–2025 · $432k · revenue +89%
- MPMOUNTAIN PARKS FOUNDATION OF SANTA CRUZ3× · 2018–2022 · $265k · revenue +176%
Funded once
- SFSEMPERVIRENS FUNDgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $356k · revenue +37%
- POPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $356k · revenue +106%
- ARAGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICEone grant, 2017 · $45k
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.
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Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.
Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.
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.
Friends of santa cruz state parks is a vital partner to california state parks, creatively working to ensure parks and beaches throughout santa cruz county and coastal san mateo county are thriving and available to all.
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Save the redwoods league protects and restores redwood forests and connects people with their peace and beauty so these wonders of the natural world flourish.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Monica Mountains Fund and the most unlike its peers is Intertribal Sinkyone Wilderness Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 27% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
65 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. 65 of the 103 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 CAL POLY HUMBOLDT SPONSORED PROGRAMS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LandPaths ↗
- Who funds SEMPERVIRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds INTERTRIBAL SINKYONE WILDERNESS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN PARKS FOUNDATION OF SANTA CRUZ ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds CSU BAKERSFIELD AUXILIARY FOR SPONSORED PROGRAMS ADMINISTRATION ↗
- Who funds SEQUOIA PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Mother Lode Land Trust ↗
- Who funds THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds ANCIENT FOREST SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FUNGUS FEDERATION OF SANTA CRUZ ↗
- Who funds HUMBOLDT REDWOODS INTERPRETIVE ASSN ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Parks California · Resources Legacy Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Humboldt Area Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · California State Parks Foundation · The Dean Witter Foundation · Foundation for California Community Colleges · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County
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 Save the Redwoods League 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.
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
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.