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The Entrekin Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$352k
Granted FY2025still arriving
3
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$292k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$352kArts & Culture$61kEnvironment$44kFood & Nutrition$19kInternational$8kHealth$7kHuman Services$5kEducation$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $58k
  • $250k+1 grant · $292k
$57,787
Median grant
2
States reached
$2k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND$292,038
FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND$57,787
CLIMATE FARM SCHOOL CO IDEAGARDEN INSTITUTE$2,575
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:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%CONVENANT HOUSE: $500 → 17%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $1k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $1k → 10%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND: $300 → 10%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

ME
WA
MN
NY
MA
OR
OH
CT
CA
NC
DC
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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$115k · 36 repeat orgs$388k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +11% for those funded once.

36 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
70

Total granted

$115k
$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+11%

Still filing today

61%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $352k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • AC
    ARTS COLLABORATIVE OF NEVADA COUNTY
    5× · 2017–2023 · $8k · revenue +588%
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO
    4× · 2018–2021 · $7k · revenue +117%
  • G
    GAMBIARISING
    7× · 2017–2023 · $7k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • BA
    BAY AREA CLIMATE EDUCATION TRUST
    one grant, 2017 · $3k
  • CI
    CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR ART AND NATURE
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
  • CL
    COMMUNITY LIFE NETWORK INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2019 · $3k
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
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 Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education
3
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
4
Rescape California

ReScape addresses climate change by providing a regenerative, nature-based whole systems foundation for landscaping education, workforce development and policy.Foundational to our work is a whole systems watershed framework that…

Environment
5
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
6
Rainforest Action Network

Rainforest Action Network (RAN) works toward a world where the rights and dignity of all communities are respected and where healthy forests, a stable climate and wild biodiversity are protected and celebrated.

Environment
7
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

—
8
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
9
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
10
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.

—
11
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
12
Turtle Island Restoration Network

To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Environment California Inc; the most unlike its peers is Poetry Flash. 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

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 110 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)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/51
Grantees still filing
37/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUND: $349,825 · OtherFIDELITY DONOR ADVISED FUNDIndividual grant recipient: $24,100 · OtherIndividual grant recipient+78 more: $76,040 · Other+78 moreARTS COLLABORATIVE OF NEVADA COUNTY: $7,500 · Arts & CultureThe Aurora Theatre Company: $5,500 · Arts & CultureSmall Press Traffic Literary Arts Center: $2,750 · Arts & CultureHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $1,400 · Arts & CulturePoint Reyes National Seashore Association: $6,100 · EnvironmentSave The Bay: $2,295 · EnvironmentEarth Island Institute Inc: $2,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA INC: $1,531 · Environment350 BAY AREA: $1,000 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND TRUST: $750 · EnvironmentBear Yuba Land Trust: $500 · EnvironmentThe Ruth Bancroft Garden Inc: $500 · Environment+1 more: $300 · EnvironmentGAMBIARISING: $6,663 · InternationalWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $720 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $300 · International+1 more: $100 · InternationalFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $6,706 · Food & NutritionLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $2,300 · Human ServicesLoved Twice: $2,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT HOUSE: $500 · Human ServicesGOFUNDMEORG: $345 · PhilanthropyFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $300 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $200 · Philanthropy
Other$449,965Arts & Culture$19,150Environment$14,976International$7,783Food & Nutrition$6,706Human Services$4,800Philanthropy$845

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetARTS COLLABORATIVE OF NEVADA COUNTY: $7,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $6,706 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGAMBIARISING: $6,663 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPoint Reyes National Seashore Association: $6,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Aurora Theatre Company: $5,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSmall Press Traffic Literary Arts Center: $2,750 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Bay: $2,295 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Poets in the Schools: $2,250 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBLACK MOUNTAIN CIRCLE: $2,100 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLoved Twice: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLamorinda Arts Council: $2,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOETRY FLASH: $1,800 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA INC: $1,531 over 1y, 0.0% of budget350 BAY AREA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity of Writers: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN FOR WOMEN INTERNATIONAL: $720 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEACH ONE REACH ONE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBear Yuba Land Trust: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOPPER CANYON PRESS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Ruth Bancroft Garden Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Ridge Trail Council: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOMINICAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION: $398 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG: $345 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOREST SERVICE EMPLOYEES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL ETHICS INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S CANCER RESEARCH FUND: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CREST TRAIL ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds ARTS COLLABORATIVE OF NEVADA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
  • Who funds GAMBIARISING ↗
  • Who funds Point Reyes National Seashore Association ↗
  • Who funds The Aurora Theatre Company ↗
  • Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Small Press Traffic Literary Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
  • Who funds Save The Bay ↗
  • Who funds California Poets in the Schools ↗
  • Who funds BLACK MOUNTAIN CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds Loved Twice ↗
  • Who funds Lamorinda Arts Council ↗
  • Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
  • Who funds POETRY FLASH ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENT CALIFORNIA INC ↗
  • Who funds 350 BAY AREA ↗
  • Who funds Community of Writers ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds HEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds MESA REFUGE A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗

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…East Bay Community Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…The James Irvine Foun…The Intuit FoundationGordon E and Betty I …William a Kerr Founda…The Academy of Americ…The Bernard Osher Fou…The Springcreek Found…The Rock Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA26.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · William a Kerr Foundation · The Academy of American Poets Inc · The Bernard Osher Foundation · The Springcreek Foundation · The Rock 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 Entrekin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Entrekin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 110 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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