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The Crimson Riverstone Foundation at a glance

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The Crimson Riverstone Foundation

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.

$77k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Education$54kHealth$30kAnimals$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$9kHuman Services$8kYouth Development$6kArts & Culture$5kCivil Rights$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $47k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$3,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$5.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$10,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH$10,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC$5,000
SOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCOURMT OF BARBERSHOP$5,000
CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION$5,000
OPERATION FOR HOPE FOUNDATION INC$3,000
JUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH$3,000
LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION$3,000
STANDUP FOR KIDS$3,000
PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION$2,000
SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND S P C A$2,000
Individual grant recipient$2,000
CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC$2,000
02The need
03

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:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 32% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $10k → 8%NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%PROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $3k → 14%AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO: $2k → 17%SOI DOG: $7k → 16%HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL: $4k → 14%ST JUDE CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5k → 17%BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2k → 9%ASIAN PACIFIC INSTITUTE ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: $1k → 8%STANDUP FOR KIDS: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%BELLAS HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $2k → 11%KPBS SAN DIEGO: $2k → 11%KPBS SAN DIEGO: $500 → 11%KPBS SAN DIEGO: $500 → 11%SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND S P C A: $2k → 11%DEL NORTE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $35k → 11%SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%CRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $2k → 11%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
CA
UT
TN
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$34k · 4 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$34k
$50k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
0%

Still filing today

75%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
AnimalsEducationHealthPhilanthropyHuman ServicesPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH
    2× · 2024–2025 · $15k · revenue +40%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2024–2025 · $12k · revenue +19%
  • OF
    Operation For HOPE Foundation
    2× · 2024–2025 · $4k

Funded once

  • DN
    DEL NORTE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $35k · revenue +4%
  • SD
    Soi Dog Foundation USAgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $7k · revenue +260%
  • HW
    Humane World for Animals International
    one grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
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
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
2
Friends of Humane Services in Tijuana

Friends of Humane Services in Tijuana was founded in August of 2007. Our mission is to support organizations and individuals who work to improve the conditions in the US and Mexican communities that border the Tijuana, Mexico area, by…

Animals
3
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals Inc

Protection of animal rights

Animals
4
Humane World for Animals Inc

Humane World for Animals, Inc., formerly known as the Humane Society of the United States (The Organization), seeks to tackle the root causes of animal cruelty and suffering. CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O

Animals
5
Caravita Foundation (Formerly Angels for Angels Foundation)

We create access to essential veterniary care including low cost spay and neuter, vaccines, and microchips, to encourage responsible pet ownership and transform communities from crisis to thriving.

Animals
6
Project Street Vet

Project Street Vet empowers veterinary teams to deliver professional, non-judgmental medical care & support to pet families experiencing homelessness and housing vulnerability.

Animals
7
San Diego Humane Society Foundation

Inactive

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8
Hope 4 La Pawz

Rescue companion animals from the la paz area of the baja peninsula; rehabilitate them; and find loving, permanent homes for them in mexico, the us, and canada. provide education to the public concerning the proper care of companion…

Animals
9
Sante Dor Foundation

Sante DOr is a no-kill animal adoption center serving the Los Angeles community, predominantly staffed by volunteers.

Animals
10
California City Animal Outreach Foundation

The foundation supports the california city animal shelter and community companion animals. our dedicated goals of extended rescue and adoption lifelines, spay and neuter promotion. education awareness and quality of life improvements will…

Animals
11
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
12
Humane Society Silicon Valley

At humane society silicon valley, our mission is to save lives, keep families together, and create a better future for pets and their people.(see schedule o for continuation)

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is PROMISES2KIDS Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Humane World for Animals International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

21 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. 21 of the 24 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
8/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DEL NORTE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $35,000 · EducationDEL NORTE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $12,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATIONNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $2,000 · EducationTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $15,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATI…LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $10,000 · HealthLIFE SCIENCE CARES INCST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARC…BELLAS HOUSE OF HOPE: $2,000 · HealthBELLAS HOUSE OF HOPESOCIETY FOR PRESERVATION & ENCOURMT OF BARBERSHOP: $5,000 · OtherSOCIETY FOR PRESERV…CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION: $5,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRE FOU…Individual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…StandUp for Kids: $3,000 · OtherStandUp for KidsPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherPROMISES2KIDS FOUND…ASIAN PACIFIC INSTITUTE ON GENDER-BASED VIOLENCE: $1,000 · OtherJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $3,000 · OtherJUST IN TIME FOR FO…SAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · OtherHumane World for Animals International: $4,000 · AnimalsHumane Wor…SAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $2,000 · AnimalsSAN DIEGO …THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 · AnimalsTHE AMERIC…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIEN…ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $2,000 · AnimalsZOOLOGICAL…Soi Dog Foundation USA: $7,000 · PhilanthropyOperation For HOPE Foundation: $3,500 · Human ServicesLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Education$54,000Health$32,000Other$23,000Animals$12,000Philanthropy$7,000Human Services$3,500Public Safety & Disaster$3,000

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 budgetDEL NORTE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSoi Dog Foundation USA: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHumane World for Animals International: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation For HOPE Foundation: $3,500 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUST IN TIME FOR FOSTER YOUTH: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStandUp for Kids: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROMISES2KIDS FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELLAS HOUSE OF HOPE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN DIEGO HIGH SCHOOL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO POLICE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The San Diego Foundat…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Diego FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Diego Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Crimson Riverstone Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Crimson Riverstone Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University: 7% 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
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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.

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 24 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home