· Private foundation
The Gamble Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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–50k12 grants · $330k
- $50k–250k15 grants · $820k
- $250k+1 grant · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE GF FUND | $305,000 |
| FARM TO GROW INC | $60,000 |
| AGRICULTURE AND LAND BASED TRAINING ASSOCIATION | $60,000 |
| KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS | $60,000 |
| MENDOCINO COUNTY RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $60,000 |
| TRIBAL ECO RESTORATION ALLIANCE | $60,000 |
| EARTH ISLAND INSTITUTE | $60,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FARMLINK | $60,000 |
| SONOMA RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| GOLD RIDGE RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $50,000 |
| CULTURAL CONSERVANCY SACRED LAND FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CENTER FOR LAND-BASED LEARNING | $50,000 |
| AUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC | $50,000 |
| SUSTAINABLE CONSERVATION | $50,000 |
| RIVER PARTNERS | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +104% since the first grant, against +39% for those funded once.
74 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 61 since wound down; 15 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, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $670k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCALIFORNIA FARMLINK8× · 2017–2024 · $359k · revenue +200%
- SCSustainable Conservation8× · 2017–2024 · $353k · revenue +104%
- ACAUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC8× · 2017–2024 · $295k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- NCNORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES - VALLEY FIRE RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2017 · $100k
- RSRCD SHARED COMM RESOURCEone grant, 2021 · $75k
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +10%
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 mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
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.
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.
We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.
The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
Oregon agricultural trust partners with farmers and ranchers to protect agricultural lands for the benefit of oregons economy, communities, and landscapes.
Land trust of santa cruz county (the organization) was incorporated in california as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978. the mission of the organization is to protect, care for, and connect all people to the vibrant natural and working…
Promote conservation easements and resource management plans that conserve agriculture lands, forestlands, wildlife habitat, open space, and other natural resources, in perpetuity.
How this is measured
62 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. 62 of the 128 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 CALIFORNIA FARMLINK ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Conservation ↗
- Who funds SAVORY INSTITUTEORG INC ↗
- Who funds AUDUBON CANYON RANCH INC ↗
- Who funds PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds RIVER PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Center for Land-Based Learning ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
- Who funds KITCHEN TABLE ADVISORS ↗
- Who funds Wild Farm Alliance ↗
- Who funds Urban Tilth ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA RANGELAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SONOMA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Tribal Eco Restoration Alliance ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURE AND LAND BASED TRAINING ASSOCIATION ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Clif Family Foundation · Tomkat Ranch Educational Foundation · Community Foundation for San Benito County · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Community Foundation of the Napa Valley
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gamble Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gamble Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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