How much did SUSTAINABLE FUTURES FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of SUSTAINABLE FUTURES FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2018

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2019

environmentalmarinelandsonomaagriculture

2020

marinelandfarmprotectionsonomaagriculture

2021

researchsonomaland

2022

researchorganicsonomalandfarm

2023

jewishisraelresearch caredistribute foodeducationorganic productionpark

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k1 grant · $5k
$10k–50k28 grants · $635k
$50k–250k3 grants · $220k
$250k+1 grant · $1.0M

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$38M

Total assets

Largest grants

SCHWAB CHARITABLE (DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC)$1,000,000
NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION$80,000
CCOF FOUNDATION$80,000
CALIFORNIA FFA FOUNDATION$60,000
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION$40,000
THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY$40,000
ALS NETWORK FORMERLY ALS ASSOCIATION GOLDEN WEST CHAPTER$40,000
GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY$25,000
CALIFORNIA FARMLAND TRUST$25,000
FOOD FOR PEOPLE (HUMBOLT COUNTY FOOD BANK)$25,000
GARDENS OF GOLDEN GATE PARK$25,000
COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF BUTTE$25,000
SONOMA COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION$25,000
YOLO FOOD BANK$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO MARIN FOOD BANK$25,000

02The need

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, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$7.5M · 56 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

56 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$7.5M

$599k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%

+108%

Still filing today

54%

35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 27% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentFood & NutritionHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyEducationOther

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

RE
Redwood Empire Food Bank
8× · 2017–2024 · $565k · revenue +47%
CF
CCOF Foundation
7× · 2018–2024 · $560k · revenue +592%
Parkinson's Foundation
7× · 2018–2024 · $220k · revenue +177%

Funded once

ZI
ZAKA Inc
one grant, 2023 · $50k
CF
Center for Ecoliteracy
one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -39%
JN
Jewish National Fundgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +156%

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.

Oregon Agricultural Trust

Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.

Environment

California Certified Organic Farmers

Ccof advances organic agriculture for a healthy world. we accomplish our purpose through organic certification, education, advocacy and promotion. we envision a world where organic is the norm.

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California Agricultural Leadership Found

To enhance the long-term viability of california agriculture through leadership development, which in turn benefits the people and communities that agriculture serves. we grow leaders who make a difference.

Food & Nutrition

Agricultural Research Foundation

To encourage and engage activities in agriculture and natural resources throughout oregon.

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Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education

Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment

Foundation for Food and Agriculture

Pioneering the next frontier of food and agriculture research

Food & Nutrition

The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County

To conserve natural resources, agricultural land & open spaces for present & future generations.

Environment

Organic Farmers Association

The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers. Our purpose is to build and support a farmer-led national organic farmer movement and national…

Food & Nutrition

Multinational Exchange for Sustainable a

MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.

Education

Ccof Certification Services Llc

Advance organic agriculture for a healthy world through organic certification.

Food & Nutrition

Pacific Coast Farmers Market Association

Our mission is to support california farmers and communities by providing farmers markets for our diverse bay area neighborhoods. we do this by operating certified farmers markets in six bay area counties. these farmers markets provide…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Naturebridge. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/48

the rest of the field

10%

8,964/89,044

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.

05the grantee network

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

47/47

Grantees still filing

35/47

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,379,750Food & Nutrition$2,152,500Environment$985,000Youth Development$350,000Health$245,000Human Services$182,500Philanthropy$140,000

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.

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.

Clif Family FoundationCA21.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Clif Family Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Marin Community Foundation · Gaia Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Farm Aid Inc · Esb Charitable Foundation · Tides Foundation · McNabb Foundation · American Heart Association Inc · Silicon Valley Community 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 SUSTAINABLE FUTURES FUND 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

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: CCOF Foundation.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 6.9× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 300106255 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 CCOF Foundation, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
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 Sustainable Futures Fund?

Find your warmest path to Sustainable Futures Fund 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.

SUSTAINABLE FUTURES FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sustainable Futures Fund?

More from the funding graph

SUSTAINABLE FUTURES FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

47 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Sustainable Futures Fund?

More from the funding graph