· Private foundation
The Foster Family Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE FOSTER FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $70k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $569k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL | $311,369 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE PACIFIC | $257,731 |
| VILLAGE HOPECORE INTERNATIONAL | $240,000 |
| REINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION | $189,026 |
| PREVAIL | $150,000 |
| FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST | $140,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $104,000 |
| PLACER SPCA | $90,000 |
| LOEL FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| CHILDREN'S EYE FOUNDATION OF AAPOS | $55,000 |
| SMITH KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH | $50,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS | $35,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| SUPPORT STOCKTON POLICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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 +48% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- VHVILLAGE HOPECORE INTERNATIONAL9× · 2017–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +48% · 37% of their budget
- PCPREVAIL CA9× · 2017–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +58%
REINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +15%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SAN JOAQUIN--STOCKTON ANIMAL SHELTERone grant, 2019 · $50k
- FOFRIENDS OF MAHA'ULEPUgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +405% · 49% of their budget
- RYROSEVILLE YOUTH SOCCER CLUBone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +10%
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.
To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
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Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…
The international snow leopard trust aims to ethically conserve snow leopards and their high mountain ecosystems through partnerships with indigenous peoples and local communities, and through research to improve the understanding of snow…
California state parks foundation is an independent, member-supported nonprofit dedicated to protecting and preserving the california state park system for the benefit of all.
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…
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
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…
The academy is a renowned scientific and educational institution with a mission to regenerate the natural world through science, learning, and collaboration. based in san francisco's golden gate park, it is home to a world-class aquarium,…
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reinvent Stockton Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Smith-Kettlewell Eye Research Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 71 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 VILLAGE HOPECORE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PREVAIL CA ↗
- Who funds REINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FEATHER RIVER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds University of the Pacific ↗
- Who funds The Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT STOCKTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SMITH-KETTLEWELL EYE RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MAHA'ULEPU ↗
- Who funds ROSEVILLE YOUTH SOCCER CLUB ↗
- Who funds OAK PARK JUNIOR TENNIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF STOCKTON ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds Children's Home of Stockton Inc ↗
- Who funds STAND FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Mountain Area Preservation Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AHAHUI MALAMA I KA LOKAHI ↗
- Who funds SIERRA WATCH ↗
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 Cortopassi Family Foundation · San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc · The 54 Fund · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Crete Family Foundation · Mildred Luck Lewis Foundation · Rosi Cerri Foundation Inc · Port City Operating Company LLC · Coastal Barrier Island Foundation · Teichert Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Marin Community 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 Foster Family Charitable 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.
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