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The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust
The trust's purpose is to help people in their times of need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $246,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $700,325 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $454,325 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SF ARTS EDUCATION PROJECT | $40,000 |
| CAZADERO MUSIC CAMP | $25,000 |
| MUSIC IN PLACE | $25,000 |
| MONTE RIO SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| MONTE RIO FIRE SERVICES FOUND | $20,000 |
| LITTLE VILLAGE FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND | $15,000 |
| SMALL ART MUSIC PROJECTS | $15,000 |
| LAMPLIGHTERS MUSIC THEATRE | $10,000 |
| ANALY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION | $10,000 |
| MONTE RIO VARIETY SHOW | $10,000 |
| 42ND STREET MOON | $10,000 |
| CHOPS TEEN CENTER | $10,000 |
| WEST COUNTY HEALTH CTR | $10,000 |
| PROJECT GRANT | $6,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- SFSan Francisco Arts Education Project3× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +26%
- WCWEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC2× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +17%
- MRMONTE RIO FIREMANS ASSOCIATION3× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +30% · 28% of their budget
Funded once
- SCST CATHERINE OF SIENAone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
The Big Sur Fiddle Camp is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization and has been in operation for twelve years. Annually, we have run a specialized music program for about 40 youth, 15 music-loving volunteers, and 15 instructors during each…
InterMusic SF is dedicated to sustaining and nourishing the Bay Area creative environment by offering dynamic programming and vital resources for music creators and audience members.
The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…
To champion the performing arts in Santa Rosa for all. To connect people with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. To embrace people from all backgrounds. To provide exceptional service to our resident companies and to…
To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…
Community Music / Arts Organization
The purpose of the Organization is to enrich the community through music education and performance. San Jose Jazz is an innovative educational organization whose commitment to education and the community goes back over thirty years.
Provide outstanding music programs for students aged 5 to 22 that can create a positive impact on their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Arts Education Project and the most unlike its peers is Analy High School Education Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 16 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 San Francisco Arts Education Project ↗
- Who funds Monte Rio School Foundation ↗
- Who funds WEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MONTE RIO FIREMANS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAZADERO PERFORMING ARTS CAMP ↗
- Who funds Music in Place ↗
- Who funds Little Village Foundation ↗
- Who funds Analy High School Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds SMALL ART MUSIC PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND ↗
- Who funds Lamplighters Music Theatre ↗
- Who funds 42ND STREET MOON ↗
- Who funds Demeo Teen Club Inc ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organization The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust 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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