· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| PUT ON THE BRAKES INC | $50,000 |
| WING & BARREL FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| SAN JOSE AUXILIARY FOR CHILDREN | $25,000 |
| SAMARITANS PURSE | $25,000 |
| BRANNAN CENTER | $25,000 |
| IMMACULATE CONCEPTION ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| WEST COAST STOCK CAR HALL OF FAME | $25,000 |
| OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 31% of The Foothills Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
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 75 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds HOSPITALITY HOUSE OF THE UPPER PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds CHILDRESS INSTITUTE FOR PEDIATRIC TRAUMA ↗
- 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 MADDEN CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL SPORTS MEDIA ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MEDAL OF HONOR MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOTORSPORTS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds PUT ON THE BRAKES INC ↗
- Who funds Stockton Shelter For The Homeless ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED STATES SPORTSMEN'S ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Foothills Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Foothills Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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