· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HUNTINGTON MEDICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR AG IN THE CLASSROOM | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY | $100,000 |
| CALIFORNIA POLICY CENTER | $75,000 |
| CORCORAN UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $35,000 |
| SEQUOIA RIVERLANDS TRUST | $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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 11% of The James G Boswell 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.
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
How this is measured
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 +34%
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
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.
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,…
How this is measured
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
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 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 AMA OLUKAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Legacy Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds Golden State YMCA ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The James G Boswell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The James G Boswell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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