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The Graybird 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALLIANCE OF IDAHO | $12,000 |
| SENIOR COASTSIDERS | $10,000 |
| AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR | $10,000 |
| COASTSIDE HOPE | $10,000 |
| MAIDEN VOYAGE PRODUCTIONS | $10,000 |
| ARCHITECTS OF PEACE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SONRISAS DENTAL HEALTH | $7,500 |
| COASTSIDE WOMENS CLUB | $6,000 |
| COASTSIDE HOPE | $5,000 |
| COASTSIDE LAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF THE COASTSIDE | $3,000 |
| THE FUND FOR SUSTAINABLE TOMORROWS | $1,065 |
| HEAL PROJECT | $1,000 |
| SEA HUGGER | $533 |
| COASTSIDE WOMENS CLUB | $533 |
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, $82k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 54% of The Graybird 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. Read by recipient address, 68% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 44% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +68% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
- WRWOOD RIVER WOMEN'S FOUNDATION3× · 2021–2023 · $85k · revenue +14%
- AOARCHITECTS OF PEACE FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2025 · $41k · revenue +123% · 50% of their budget
- RFREACH FOR HOME3× · 2017–2019 · $27k · revenue +231%
Funded once
- ICIDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INCone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +7%
- GSGOLDEN STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue +25%
- CSCRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $7k · revenue +101%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifemoves and the most unlike its peers is Golden Ticket Award. 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 25 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 48 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 WOOD RIVER WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARCHITECTS OF PEACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR HOME ↗
- Who funds COASTSIDE HOPE ↗
- Who funds ABILITYPATH ↗
- Who funds SENIOR COASTSIDERS INC ↗
- Who funds SONRISAS DENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds COASTSIDE WOMEN'S CLUB ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE OF IDAHO INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO CONSERVATION LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds ALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR ↗
- Who funds Coastside Land Trust ↗
- Who funds MAIDEN VOYAGE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HEAL PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COASTAL REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL SHELTER OF WOOD RIVER VALLEY DBA MOUNTAIN HUMANE ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds SEA HUGGER ↗
- Who funds Education Outside ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds Fund for Sustainable Tomorrows ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PKU ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NAMI San Mateo County ↗
- Who funds CAMINAR ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR GOOD ↗
- Who funds Golden Ticket Award ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore 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 Graybird 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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