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The Materium Foundation at a glance

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The Materium Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
11
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$23kFood & Nutrition$12kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kArts & Culture$8kHealth$8kEducation$6kPhilanthropy$5kYouth Development$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$576k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND$2,500
BREAKTHROUGH SUMMERBRIDGE OF SF$2,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$2,500
RENO FOOD SYSTEMS$2,500
EASTERN SIERRA LAND TRUST$2,500
FRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS$2,500
SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS$2,500
CAMPBELL SCHOLARS PROGRAM$2,500
SAN FRANCISCO-MARIN FOOD BANK$1,500
HELP SAVE THE BEES FOUNDATION$1,500
LOS ANGELES FOOD BANK$1,000
SONOMA LAND TRUST$1,000
SAN MATEO COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION$1,000
PROJECT COLOR CORPS$1,000
THE VINE GLOBAL IMPACT FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–18, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $2k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $250 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $200 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $180 → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $53 → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MT
NY
OR
NV
WY
CA
CO
VA
NM
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$23k · 10 repeat orgs$68k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 36 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
23

Total granted

$23k
$21k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+35%

Still filing today

90%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +44%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +46%
  • CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2024 · $4k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • RC
    REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -96%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • F
    FILOLI
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
Sempervirens Fund

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:…

Environment
3
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
4
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
5
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
6
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
7
CalWild

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.

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8
Save the Redwoods League

Save the redwoods league protects and restores redwood forests and connects people with their peace and beauty so these wonders of the natural world flourish.

Environment
9
Chile-California Council

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…

International
10
Greater Farallones Association

Gfa works in partnership with and on behalf of the greater farallones and cordell bank national marine sanctuaries to preserve, monitor, research, educate about and enhance these invaluable marine resources.

Animals
11
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
12
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California State Parks Foundation; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

48 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. 48 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/48
Grantees still filing
30/48
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $4,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INCIndividual grant recipient: $4,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientFRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS: $2,500 · OtherBREAKTHROUGH SUMMERBRIDGE OF SF: $2,500 · OtherRENO FOOD SYSTEMS: $2,500 · OtherCAMPBELL SCHOLARS PROGRAM: $2,500 · OtherCALTROUT: $2,000 · OtherST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,670 · OtherLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $2,900 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 · OtherSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $2,500 · Other+30 more: $24,919 · Other+30 moreREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyREDWOOD CREDI…THE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION: $3,100 · PhilanthropyTHE MONO LAKE…CRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $2,500 · PhilanthropyCRAFT EMERGEN…CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,650 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION…EASTERN SIERRA LAND TRUST: $2,750 · EnvironmentEASTERN SIER…SONOMA LAND TRUST: $1,000 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND …GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $1,000 · EnvironmentGREATER YELL…GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $560 · EnvironmentGOLDEN GATE …SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM: $500 · EnvironmentTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $500 · Environment+2 more: $300 · EnvironmentSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Arts & CultureKWMR: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHenry Miller Memorial Library: $1,000 · Arts & CulturePoor People's Radio Inc: $1,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $427 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $250 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $200 · Arts & CultureWILD SALMON CENTER: $1,000 · AnimalsTURTLE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $1,000 · AnimalsWYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $500 · AnimalsNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $250 · AnimalsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,683 · Human ServicesBLACK YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $1,000 · EducationPROJECT COLOR CORPS: $1,000 · EducationSan Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation: $1,000 · EducationThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $500 · Education
Other$55,489Philanthropy$10,600Environment$10,260Arts & Culture$4,877Animals$3,750Human Services$3,683Education$3,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $3,683 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,650 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION: $3,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $2,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN SIERRA LAND TRUST: $2,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $2,670 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF NEVADA WILDERNESS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCRAFT EMERGENCY RELIEF FUND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Open Hand: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK YOUTH LEADERSHIP PROJECT: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKWMR: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT COLOR CORPS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSan Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTURTLE CONSERVANCY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHenry Miller Memorial Library: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoor People's Radio Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY: $560 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEST POINT INN ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWYOMING WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE WILDERNESS SOCIETY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUGAR PINE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $427 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGolden Gate Bird Alliance Prev Golden Gate Audubon Society Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…PatagoniaorgThe California Endowm…East Bay Community Fo…Tides FoundationVanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…
The San Francisco FoundationCA18.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The California Endowment · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Materium Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Materium Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 49%
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Materium Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Materium Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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