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The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust

The trust's purpose is to help people in their times of need.

$700k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$415kEducation$100kHealth$85kPublic Safety & Disaster$60kReligion$20kYouth Development$20kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 15 grants below total $246,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $700,325 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $454,325 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $240k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SF ARTS EDUCATION PROJECT$40,000
CAZADERO MUSIC CAMP$25,000
MUSIC IN PLACE$25,000
MONTE RIO FIRE SERVICES FOUND$20,000
LITTLE VILLAGE FOUNDATION$20,000
MONTE RIO SCHOOL DISTRICT$20,000
SMALL ART MUSIC PROJECTS$15,000
SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND$15,000
MONTE RIO VARIETY SHOW$10,000
CHOPS TEEN CENTER$10,000
ANALY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION$10,000
LAMPLIGHTERS MUSIC THEATRE$10,000
42ND STREET MOON$10,000
WEST COUNTY HEALTH CTR$10,000
PROJECT GRANT$6,000
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 89% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%MUSIC IN PLACE: $25k → 8%CHOPS TEEN CENTER: $10k → 9%SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $15k → 10%SMALL ART MUSIC PROJECTS: $15k → 10%LITTLE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 14%MUSIC IN PLACE: $25k → 8%CHOPS TEEN CENTER: $10k → 9%SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $10k → 10%SMALL ART MUSIC PROJECTS: $15k → 10%LITTLE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%MONTE RIO FIRE SERVICES FOUND: $20k → 9%42ND STREET MOON: $10k → 10%PROJECT GRANT: $6k → 8%MONTE RIO SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 9%42ND STREET MOON: $10k → 10%MONTE RIO FIRE SERVICES FOUND: $20k → 9%SF ARTS EDUCATION PROJECT: $40k → 10%MONTE RIO SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 9%SF ARTS EDUCATION PROJECT: $35k → 10%MONTE RIO SCHOOL DISTRICT: $20k → 9%LAMPLIGHTERS MUSIC THEATRE: $10k → 10%MONTE RIO FIRE SVC FOUNDATION: $20k → 9%LAMPLIGHTERS MUSIC THEATRE: $10k → 10%MONTE RIO VARIETY SHOW: $20k → 9%SAN FRANCISCO ART FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%MONTE RIO VARIETY SHOW: $10k → 9%MONTE RIO SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10k → 9%WEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTER: $50k → 9%WEST COUNTY HEALTH CTR: $10k → 9%ANALY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION: $10k → 9%ANALY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION: $10k → 9%ANALY HIGH SCHOOL EDUCATION: $10k → 9%CAZADERO MUSIC CAMP: $25k → 9%CAZADERO MUSIC CAMP: $25k → 9%ST CATHERINE OF SIENA: $20k → 9%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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$680k · 14 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
1

Total granted

$680k
$20k

Still filing today

93%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationPublic Safety & DisasterRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SF
    San Francisco Arts Education Project
    3× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +26%
  • WC
    WEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +17%
  • MR
    MONTE RIO FIREMANS ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +30% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • SC
    ST CATHERINE OF SIENA
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
InterMusic Sf

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.

Arts & Culture
2
Big Sur Fiddle Camp

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…

Arts & Culture
3
San Francisco Guzheng Music Society
Arts & Culture
4
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Pacific Northwest Music Project
Arts & Culture
6
Voices of Silicon Valley

Community Music / Arts Organization

Arts & Culture
7
Ross Mckee Foundation for the Musical Arts
—
8
San Jose Chamber Music Society

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…

—
9
Pocket Opera Inc

Pocket Opera shares the beauty, artistry, and scope of the operatic repertoire sung in English, through performance, outreach, and education.

Arts & Culture
10
Maraschino Music
—
11
Marin Community Music School

Our mission is to provide music instruction, coaching, ensemble, and performance opportunities for community members of all ages and musical interests on a first-come, first-served basis, without regard to means, income, or any otherwise…

Arts & Culture
12
Mercury Music Foundation

Provide outstanding music programs for students aged 5 to 22 that can create a positive impact on their lives.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Arts Education Project; 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.
04the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
5/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

San Francisco Arts Education Project: $175,000 · Arts & CultureSan Francisco Arts Education ProjectMusic in Place: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMusic in PlaceLittle Village Foundation: $40,000 · Arts & CultureLittle Village FoundationSMALL ART MUSIC PROJECTS: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSMALL ART MUSIC PROJECTSLamplighters Music Theatre: $20,000 · Arts & CultureLamplighters Music Theatre42ND STREET MOON: $20,000 · Arts & Culture42ND STREET MOONMonte Rio School Foundation: $70,000 · OtherMonte Rio School Fou…MONTE RIO VARIETY SHOW: $30,000 · OtherMONTE RIO VARIETY SH…ST CATHERINE OF SIENA: $20,000 · OtherST CATHERINE OF SIEN…PROJECT GRANT: $6,000 · OtherWEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $60,000 · HealthWEST COUNTY H…SWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $25,000 · HealthSWEET RELIEF …MONTE RIO FIREMANS ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMONTE RIO…CAZADERO PERFORMING ARTS CAMP: $50,000 · Recreation & SportsAnaly High School Education Foundation: $30,000 · EducationDemeo Teen Club Inc: $20,000 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$335,000Other$126,000Health$85,000Public Safety & Disaster$60,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Education$30,000Youth Development$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSan Francisco Arts Education Project: $175,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetMonte Rio School Foundation: $70,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetWEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONTE RIO FIREMANS ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetCAZADERO PERFORMING ARTS CAMP: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMusic in Place: $50,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetLittle Village Foundation: $40,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetSMALL ART MUSIC PROJECTS: $30,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetAnaly High School Education Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetSWEET RELIEF MUSICIANS FUND: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetLamplighters Music Theatre: $20,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budget42ND STREET MOON: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetDemeo Teen Club Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% 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 Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Network for GoodNational Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA16.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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 Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust?

    Find your warmest path to The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust 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 16 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 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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