· Private foundation
The James G Boswell 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 $10k2 grants · $3k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $145k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $558k
- $250k+8 grants · $6.8M
Anchored by a single position — about 100% of reported assets are held in J G Boswell.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| HUNTINGTON HOSPITAL | $2,000,000 |
| AG ONE FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| PACIFIC LEGAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FFA FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FFA FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
| CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CORCORAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $183,200 |
| CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR AG IN THE CLASSROOM | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $100,000 |
| HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER | $75,000 |
| CORCORAN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $35,000 |
| SEQUOIA RIVERLANDS TRUST | $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 (FY21–25, $275k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 36% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 11% of The James G Boswell 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 +30% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 33 since wound down; 7 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M 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
- PLPacific Legal Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +136%
- CACALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND7× · 2019–2025 · $3.7M · revenue +32% · 28% of their budget
- VCVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL2× · 2023–2024 · $3.5M · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TTThe Thacher School Incgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1.5M · revenue +32%
- CHChildren's Hospital Los Angelesone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +13%
- CUCALF - UNIVERSITY SUPPORTone grant, 2023 · $300k
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.
Agricultural education at california state university, fresno.
Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
Promote ag education with university scholarships.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
To actively promote, pursue and steward private support for the advancement of california state university, fullerton.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Clsa advances californias world-leading life sciences innovation ecosystem by advocating for effective national, state and local public policies and supporting entrepreneurs and life sciences businesses.
To advance public awareness, education, and understanding of california agriculture.
To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…
To implement policies and develop work programs that will improve the financial well-being and quality of life of california farmers and ranchers.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom and the most unlike its peers is Ama Olukai Foundation. 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 45 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 69 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 CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA AGRICULTURAL LEADERSHIP FOUND ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FUTURE FARMERS OF AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds AG ONE ↗
- Who funds FLINTRIDGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds OJAI VALLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Los Angeles ↗
- Who funds CORCORAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR AGRICULTURE IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds Sequoia Riverlands Trust ↗
- Who funds PW LITCHFIELD HERITAGE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE KINGS FAIR PLEDGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Legacy Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds Golden State YMCA ↗
- Who funds AMA OLUKAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Tulare County Sheriffs Foundation ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER ↗
- Who funds College of the Sequoias Foundation ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Kern County Fair ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF TULARE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds TULARE COUNTY FOUNDATION FOR AG EDUCATION AND YOUTH ↗
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: Land O'Lakes Foundation · Kern Community Foundation · The Setton Foundation · Resnick Foundation · Educational Employees Credit Union · The Otis Booth Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Charities Aid Foundation America · Shell USA Company 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 James G Boswell 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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