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The Bancroft Foundation Inc

See schedule othe foundation recognizes the need to take active participation, responsibility and stewardship of the future of our community, state, region, nation and beyond.

$746k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$1.5MCommunity Improvement$476kHuman Services$279kHealth$200kPhilanthropy$148kCivil Rights$146kEmployment$125kArts & Culture$95kOther$0
02FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $478k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $251k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$703k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH BAY JOBS WITH JUSTICE$50,750
COMMUNITY WATER CENTER$50,000
NORTH BAY ORGANIZING PROJECT$50,000
CCEJN$50,000
HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY$50,000
THE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE$45,000
THE CLIMATE CENTER$35,000
SONOMA LAND TRUST$30,000
CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE ALLIANCE$26,000
LANDPATHS$26,000
THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT$25,750
LEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY$25,000
OCCIDENTAL ARTS AND ECOLOGY CENTER$25,000
CULTURAL CONSERVANCY SACRED LAND FOUNDATION$25,000
SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%COMMONWEAL: $25k → 8%ON THE MOVE: $36k → 9%COMMONWEAL: $25k → 8%ON THE MOVE: $25k → 9%COMMONWEAL: $25k → 8%ON THE MOVE: $25k → 9%COMMONWEAL: $24k → 8%ON THE MOVE: $25k → 9%ON THE MOVE: $25k → 9%THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $26k → 9%THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20k → 9%THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20k → 9%THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20k → 9%THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $15k → 9%INDIVIDUALS NOW INC SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $20k → 9%INDIVIDUALS NOW INC SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $20k → 9%INDIVIDUALS NOW INC SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $20k → 9%INDIVIDUALS NOW INC SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $20k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 30 repeat orgs$198k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
5

Total granted

$3.0M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+28%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementCivil RightsHealthOther

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

  • CW
    Community Water Center
    4× · 2021–2024 · $201k · revenue +138%
  • HF
    HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $200k · revenue +56%
  • TC
    The Climate Center
    5× · 2020–2024 · $146k · revenue +354%

Funded once

  • VO
    VIRGINIA ORGANIZING INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $21k · revenue +28%
  • HE
    HEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -84%
  • PF
    PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -52%

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.

1
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
2
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
3
Sonoma Ecology Center

The Mission of Sonoma Ecology Center is to work with our community to enhance and sustain ecological health in the Sonoma valley.

Environment
4
Sonoma County Conservation Action

Sonoma County Conservation Action's mission is to better our quality of life in Sonoma County for all generations, through educating and directly engaging the public on local environmental issues and policies using grassroots organizing.

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5
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.

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6
Center for Environmental Law & Policy

The Center for Environmental Law & Policy is a statewide organization whose mission is to protect, preserve and restore Washington's waters through education, advocacy, policy reform, and public interest litigation.

Environment
7
Earthcorps

To cultivate leaders and community partnerships to advance environmental justice.

International
8
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
9
CarbonPlan

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

Environment
10
Ecology Action of Santa Cruz

The primary and specific purpose for which the said corporation is formed is to empower individuals, businesses and communities to take actions today that achieve environmental and economic sustainability. The activities of the corporation…

Environment
11
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
12
Taproot Earth

Taproot Earth works with communities to support strategies around the use of water, energy and land.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Anacostia Watershed Society Inc. 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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr15%14%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%47%20–35yr11%14%35–55yr13%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%44%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr13%8%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,939

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.

04the grantee network

39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
25/39
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Community Water Center — $200,750 · EnvironmentCommunity Water CenterOccidental Arts and Ecology Center — $140,750 · EnvironmentOccidental Arts and Ecology CenterSONOMA LAND TRUST — $135,000 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND TRUSTRussian Riverkeeper — $125,000 · EnvironmentRussian RiverkeeperSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $125,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INCENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT — $118,593 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECTLandPaths — $96,000 · EnvironmentLandPathsDaily Acts Organization — $90,000 · EnvironmentDaily Acts OrganizationEnvironmental Health Coalition — $65,000 · EnvironmentCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $51,750 · EnvironmentCalifornia Environmental Justice Alliance — $51,000 · EnvironmentCentral California Environmental Justice Network — $50,000 · Environment+6 more — $170,000 · Environment+6 moreON THE MOVE — $135,750 · Human ServicesON THE MOVETHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $100,750 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMM…COMMONWEAL — $98,274 · Human ServicesCOMMONWEALINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $80,000 · Human ServicesINDIVIDUALS NO…The Climate Center — $145,750 · EducationThe Climate C…Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County — $125,000 · EducationCareer Techni…MARYLAND PESTICIDE EDUCATION NETWORK INC — $49,150 · EducationMARYLAND PEST…LATINO STUDENT FUND — $41,650 · EducationLATINO STUDEN…+1 more — $10,000 · EducationNorth Bay Organizing Project — $215,000 · Community ImprovementVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $20,706 · Community ImprovementHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY — $200,000 · HealthTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $147,500 · PhilanthropyLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY — $75,000 · Civil RightsNorth Bay Jobs With Justice — $50,750 · Civil RightsThe Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation — $95,000 · OtherSonoma County Regional Parks Foundation — $63,800 · OtherADAMAH INC — $44,500 · OtherLaguna De Santa Rosa Foundation — $15,000 · OtherPROJECT CREATE — $9,150 · Other+1 more — $7,500 · Other
Environment$1,418,843Human Services$414,774Education$371,550Community Improvement$235,706Health$200,000Philanthropy$147,500Civil Rights$125,750Other$234,950

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNorth Bay Organizing Project — $215,000 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetCommunity Water Center — $200,750 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY — $200,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE ASSOCIATED JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF BALTIMORE INC — $147,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Climate Center — $145,750 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetOccidental Arts and Ecology Center — $140,750 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetON THE MOVE — $135,750 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST — $135,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetRussian Riverkeeper — $125,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $125,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County — $125,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT — $118,593 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $100,750 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMONWEAL — $98,274 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetLandPaths — $96,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetThe Cultural ConservancySacred Land Foundation — $95,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetDaily Acts Organization — $90,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $80,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLEADERSHIP COUNSEL FOR JUSTICE AND ACCOUNTABILITY — $75,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetEnvironmental Health Coalition — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSonoma County Regional Parks Foundation — $63,800 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK INC — $51,750 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia Environmental Justice Alliance — $51,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Bay Jobs With Justice — $50,750 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCentral California Environmental Justice Network — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMARYLAND PESTICIDE EDUCATION NETWORK INC — $49,150 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCHESAPEAKE CONSERVANCY INC — $45,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetADAMAH INC — $44,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLATINO STUDENT FUND — $41,650 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetPotomac Riverkeeper Network — $30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTribal Eco Restoration Alliance — $25,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetVIRGINIA ORGANIZING INC — $20,706 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLaguna De Santa Rosa Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT CREATE — $9,150 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BIRD RESCUE CENTER — $7,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

Sonoma County Communi…Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…PatagoniaorgResources Legacy FundImpactassetsincSonoma County Vintner…The Keith Campbell Fo…The Schmidt Family Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The California Wellne…United Way of the Win…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA37.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Resources Legacy Fund · Impactassetsinc · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Wellness Foundation · United Way of the Wine Country

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 The Bancroft Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • Chesapeake Conservancy Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Anacostia Watershed Society Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Adamah Inc — 10% of income from government
  • The Associated Jewish Community Federation of Baltimore Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
12report 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Bancroft Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Bancroft Foundation Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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