· Private foundation
The Mental Insight Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Mental Insight Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The San Francisco Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year The Mental Insight Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 67 organizations, $5M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $579k
- $50k–250k41 grants · $3.6M
- $250k+1 grant · $856k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| San Francisco Foundation | $856,283 |
| Regents of the Univ of CA San Franc | $240,000 |
| Earth Island Institute | $230,000 |
| Spirit Rock Meditation Center | $150,000 |
| StandEarth | $150,000 |
| Riverkeeper | $150,000 |
| Ketamine Research Foundation | $125,000 |
| Nova Institute for Health Inc | $120,000 |
| Massachusetts Coalition for the Hom | $120,000 |
| Ocean Conservation Research Inc | $100,000 |
| Inquiring Systems Inc | $100,000 |
| Hoffman Institute | $100,000 |
| My Stuff Bags Foundation | $100,000 |
| Ocean Voyages Institute | $100,000 |
| Friends of Children Inc | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $1.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 41% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
111 repeat relationships — 69 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $243k 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
Earth Island Institute Inc6× · 2019–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +171%- ISINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $650k · revenue +74%
- RIRIVERKEEPER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $550k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- TCThe Climate Centergraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +53%
- CFCenters for Climate Energy Solone grant, 2022 · $50k
- OAOUTDOOR AFROone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -42%
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.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
On the Boards' mission is to invest in leading contemporary performing artists near and far and connect them to a diverse range of communities interested in forward-thinking art and ideas.
Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.
Founded in 1998, WaxFactory (WF) is an interdisciplinary group of artists dedicated to exploring a multiplicity of theatrical visions, ensemble process, arts education and international exchange. Its founding members have developed a…
Artist Trust supports the livelihoods of artists working in all disciplines to create a more vibrant and equitable Washington State.
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
Studio Theatre produces exceptional contemporary theatre in deliberately intimate spaces, fostering a more thoughtful, more empathetic, and more connected community, in Washington DC and beyond.
As creative producers, we are devoted to the production and presentation of groundbreaking experiences in contemporary performance that use innovative approaches to collaboration, technology, and social engagement. As a service…
The Living Earth Show's mission is to commission, collaborate, and amplify vital musical creators from a truly diverse range of communities - including crucial artists from those that are often marginalized and overlooked by traditional…
Operating out of an old can factory in the Mission District of San Francisco, Z Space now activates two performance spaces, an 85-seat black box and a 244-seat main stage, with a warehouse aesthetic and an adventurous edge.
Arts Gowanus is a not-for-profit organization working to support, promote, and advocate for local artists and a sustainable arts community in Brooklyn
Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The 5 Gyres Institute. 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 24 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
116 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. 116 of the 151 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 Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INQUIRING SYSTEMS INC ↗
- Who funds The Ketamine Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds NOVA INSTITUTE FOR HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds HOFFMAN INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MY STUFF BAGS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CLEAN OCEAN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FARMER VETERAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds THEATER ET AL INC DBA THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY THEATER ↗
- Who funds CARBON CYCLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE REGENERATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds The 5 Gyres Institute ↗
- Who funds Amazon Watch Inc ↗
- Who funds Upstream Policy Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Ocean Voyages Institute ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds RAW ART WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds KISS THE GROUND ↗
- Who funds Hospitality Homes Inc ↗
- Who funds MIGHTY EARTH INC ↗
- Who funds AT THE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds Clubbed Thumb Inc ↗
- Who funds The Brick Theater Inc ↗
- Who funds FEEDING PETS OF THE HOMELESS AKA PETS OF THE HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds REDFORD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVATION RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GREY MUZZLE ORGANIZATION ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Alliance of Resident Theatres New York Inc · The Scherman Foundation Inc · McNabb Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Patagoniaorg · The Shubert Foundation Inc · Select Equity Group Foundation · Clif Family 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 Mental Insight 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.
- Friends of Children Inc — 54% of income from government
- Raw Art Works Inc — 7% of income from government
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.