· Private foundation
Steve & Desiree Ralph Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $3,000 |
| THE BANK HEAD BOTH WELL | $3,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
| 99 PLEDGES | $1,650 |
| FOOD BANK CONTRA COSTA SOLANO | $1,061 |
| JOHN TOLAND VOCAL ARTS | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FESTIVAL OF ARTS | $1,000 |
| ST JUDE | $1,000 |
| LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE | $518 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CHILDRENS HEALTH GUILD | $185 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOC | $120 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY19–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OHOPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC6× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +295%
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK7× · 2019–2025 · $15k · revenue +112%- AMALAMEDA MEALS ON WHEELS INC2× · 2020–2024 · $5k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- ACALS CURE PROJECTone grant, 2022 · $16k
- TWTHE WARRIORS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $10k
- RCREDWOOD COMMUNITY FUNDone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
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.
Project Open Hand's mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community.
Our mission is to serve nutritious meals with a friendly smile to seniors in Sacramento County.
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
To provide isolated homebound seniors in san francisco with nutritious meals, daily human contact, and supportive services to prevent their premature institutionalization.
The mission of teen kitchen project (tkp) is to build healthier, more connected communities by engaging teens and providing nutritious food to individuals living with serious illnesses.
Bay area cancer connections mission is to support anyone affected by breast or ovarian cancer with personalized services that inform and empower.
The mission is to build health equity in silicon valley.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 48 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 OPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA MEALS ON WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds HARMONY & HEALING ↗
- Who funds HOPE HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Shepherds Gate ↗
- Who funds TRI-VALLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL DBA VALLEY MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds TRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK ↗
- Who funds Save the Whales ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Oakland Athletics Community Fund · Lowell Berry Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Steve & Desiree Ralph Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Steve & Desiree Ralph Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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