· Private foundation
The Foothills Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k19 grants · $425k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $675k
- $250k+2 grants · $733k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANNON SCHOOL INC | $400,000 |
| DELTA WATERFOWL FOUNDATION | $333,333 |
| CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMENS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| KIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP | $150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC | $100,000 |
| MZURI WILDLIFE CLUB FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| DUCKS UNLIMITED INC | $50,000 |
| WING & BARREL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| PUT ON THE BRAKES INC | $50,000 |
| CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS | $25,000 |
| SAN JOSE AUXILIARY FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $25,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF MOUNT SHASTA FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| CHP 11 99 FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of The Foothills Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $335k 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
- DWDelta Waterfowl Foundation6× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +161%
- CSCANNON SCHOOL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +46%
- KOKIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +154% · 82% of their budget
Funded once
- CSCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S CAUCUS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $900k
- CSCONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S CAUCUS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $150k
- TPTIPPING POINT COMMUNITYone grant, 2018 · $135k · revenue -50%
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 Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with…
The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species
It is the foundation's mission to further the purposes and objectives of california waterfowl association (cwa), a california corporation exempt from income tax under section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code.
The wildlife health center foundation raises funds to promote teaching, research and service activities at the wildlife health center within the school of veterinary medicine at the university of california, davis.
The tahoe nordic search and rescue team (tnsar) ... was conceived in 1976 as a response to the death of a boy lost off the back side of northstar-at-tahoe ski area during a blizzard. there was, at the time, no organized backcountry team to…
To prevent animal abuse and neglect, enforce the anti-cruelty laws of the State of California and promote the wellbeing of animals.
The california marine sanctuary foundation is a nonprofit organization working to advance the understanding and stewardship of ocean resources in california. for over 25 years cmsf has partnered with local communities, businesses,…
The michael hoefflin foundation for children's cancer is a public non profit 501(c)3 foundation that provides financial and emotional support to children and their families in the santa clarita valley, antelope valley, san fernando…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
Anglers of honor strives to make therapeutic fly fishing opportunities available to individuals with physical disabilities and their families. we aim to fulfill our mission through preservation efforts and unique programming all across the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Victory Junction Gang Camp Inc and the most unlike its peers is West Coast Stock Car Hall of Fame. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 75 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 Delta Waterfowl Foundation ↗
- Who funds CANNON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONGRESSIONAL SPORTSMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ducks Unlimited Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS ↗
- Who funds MZURI WILDLIFE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WING & BARREL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST COAST STOCK CAR HALL OF FAME ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of Mount Shasta Foundation ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF THE UPPER PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds CHILDRESS INSTITUTE FOR PEDIATRIC TRAUMA ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds DENTON PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds ROC SOLID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARIUCCI FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WILDLIFE OFFICERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS MEDIA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MADDEN CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PUT ON THE BRAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Stockton Shelter For The Homeless ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
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: Foundation for the Carolinas · Bellevue Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Nfl Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Greater Houston Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Duke Energy Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
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 Foothills Foundation 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Foothills Foundation?
Find your warmest path to The Foothills Foundation 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.