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Sustainable Futures Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHWAB CHARITABLE (DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC) | $1,000,000 |
| NATIONAL FFA FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| CCOF FOUNDATION | $80,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FFA FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ALS NETWORK FORMERLY ALS ASSOCIATION GOLDEN WEST CHAPTER | $40,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $40,000 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| FOOD FOR PEOPLE (HUMBOLT COUNTY FOOD BANK) | $25,000 |
| REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO | $25,000 |
| CONSERVATION CORPS NORTH BAY INC | $25,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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
- REREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK8× · 2017–2024 · $565k · revenue +118%
- CFCCOF FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $560k · revenue +599%
- NFNational FFA Foundation Inc4× · 2021–2024 · $255k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- ZZAKAone grant, 2023 · $50k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOMone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue -51%
- CFCENTER FOR ECOLITERACYone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue -39%
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
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…
Foundation for food and agriculture research connects funders, researchers and farmers through public-private partnerships to support audacious research addressing the biggest food and agriculture challenges.
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…
The mission of the Organic Farmers Association is to provide a strong and unified national voice for domestic certified organic producers so that organic agriculture will become the basis of a viable United States food and agricultural…
Preserving and enhancing the habitat of wildlife, such as sandhill cranes, waterfowl, raptors, which habitat expenses are supported by agricultural activities.
The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Students Supporting Israel. 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 35 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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 104 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Food Safety ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CCOF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds National FFA Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds California Farmland Trust ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds SONOMA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA 4-H FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRESH APPROACH ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE REDWOODS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Rodale Institute ↗
- Who funds ORGANIC FARMING RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds FARMER VETERAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL WORKING GROUP ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · Gaia Fund · Bothin Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Clarence E Heller Charitable Foundation · California Association of Food Banks
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 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.
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.
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