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The Artemisia Fund at a glance

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The Artemisia Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$95k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$62k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Environment$166kCrime & Legal$45kCivil Rights$45kEducation$16kYouth Development$15kHuman Services$10kCommunity Improvement$10kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $12k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
$5,150
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN$61,959
EARTHJUSTICE$10,325
GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL$10,000
WILDERNESS YOUTH PROJECT$5,150
OAKLAND INSTITUTE$5,000
XERCES SOCIETY$1,000
CALIFORNIA NATIVE PLANT SOCIETY$1,000
INATURALIST$100
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%JENESSE CENTER: $5k → 14%FREEFROM: $5k → 14%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OR
CA
NC
DC
GA
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 92% of The Artemisia Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 76% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 7%.

The Artemisia Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 13% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$232k · 6 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
20

Total granted

$232k
$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-5%
+66%

Still filing today

83%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentFood & NutritionEducationHuman ServicesCivil RightsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SB
    SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN
    4× · 2022–2025 · $142k · revenue +74%
  • GW
    GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL
    4× · 2022–2025 · $40k
  • TO
    The Oakland Institute
    4× · 2022–2025 · $30k · revenue -27%

Funded once

  • SE
    Sustainable Economies Law Centergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +44%
  • FO
    FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVESgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +48%
  • RI
    REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +18%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
Amazon Watch Inc

To protect the rainforest and advance the rights of Indigenous peoples in the Amazon Basin. We partner with Indigenous communities in campaigns for human rights, corporate accountability, and the preservation of the Amazon Basin's…

Environment
4
Nature for Justice

To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.

Environment
5
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
6
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
San Francisco Estuary Institute

Provide scientific support and tools for decision making and communication through collaborative efforts.

Environment
9
Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine

Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.

Environment
10
Partnership for Policy Integrity

Partnership for Policy Integrity (PFPI) uses data-driven advocacy and litigation to fight for forests, communities and the climate.

Environment
11
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
12
California Environmental Voters

To increase public awareness of elected officials' performances on environmental issues, to influence decisions of public officials on environmental legislation and policy, and to engage in related social welfare activities to promote and…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc; the most unlike its peers is Center for Institutional Courage Inc. 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

27 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. 27 of the 29 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
18/27
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $141,959 · EnvironmentSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDENEARTHJUSTICE: $10,325 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICE+8 more: $13,100 · Environment+8 moreGEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL: $40,000 · OtherGEORGE WASHINGTON U…ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $5,000 · OtherACCESS REPRODUCTIVE…Darkness RISING Project: $5,000 · OtherDarkness RISING Pro…+4 more: $4,000 · Other+4 moreThe Oakland Institute: $30,000 · Food & NutritionThe Oakland In…FEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFEDERATION OF …SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 · Food & NutritionSustainable Economies Law Center: $10,000 · EducationCenter for Institutional Courage Inc: $5,000 · EducationTHE ALLIANCE FOR SELF-DIRECTED EDUCATION INC: $1,000 · EducationWilderness Youth Project Inc: $15,150 · Youth DevelopmentFreefrom: $5,000 · Human ServicesJenesse Center Inc: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $5,000 · Civil RightsTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC: $5,000 · Civil Rights
Environment$165,384Other$54,000Food & Nutrition$42,000Education$16,000Youth Development$15,150Human Services$15,000Civil Rights$10,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSANTA BARBARA BOTANIC GARDEN: $141,959 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe Oakland Institute: $30,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetWilderness Youth Project Inc: $15,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE: $10,325 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Economies Law Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFEDERATION OF SOUTHERN COOPERATIVES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentral California Environmental Justice Network: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCenter for Institutional Courage Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN POLICY FORUM INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFreefrom: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDarkness RISING Project: $5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetJenesse Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Native Plant Society: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALLIANCE FOR SELF-DIRECTED EDUCATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetFUND FOR SANTA BARBARA INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA BARBARA CHANNELKEEPER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE NATURE SOCIETY QUAIL SPRINGS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLOS PADRES FORESTWATCH INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Marin Community Found…The McCune FoundationHutton Foundation Dba…PatagoniaorgAmalgamated Charitabl…The Osherenko-Young F…Patricia Bragg Founda…Fund for Santa Barbar…Www FoundationSanta Barbara Foundat…Clif Family FoundationRsf Social Finance Inc
Marin Community FoundationCA23.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The McCune Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Osherenko-Young Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Fund for Santa Barbara Inc · Www Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Artemisia Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Artemisia Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Artemisia Fund?

Find your warmest path to The Artemisia Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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