How much did THE MINER FOUNDATION grant in FY2017?

THE MINER FOUNDATION reported 17 grants totaling $7,494,843 in its FY2017 IRS filing.

Where is THE MINER FOUNDATION based?

THE MINER FOUNDATION is based in CA.

THE MINER FOUNDATION

Foundation Dossiers

· Private foundation

THE MINER FOUNDATION

This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.

$7.5M

Granted FY2017

Grants

Communities

$6.7M

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2017 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

Under $10k2 grants · $13k
$10k–50k8 grants · $190k
$50k–250k5 grants · $324k
$250k+2 grants · $7.0M

$40,000

Median grant

States reached

Total assets

Largest grants

SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND$6,717,943
THE BODY POSITIVE$250,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SONOMA VALLEY$100,000
SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION$74,400
MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST$50,000
HEIFER INTERNATIONAL$50,000
SUMMIT LAND CONSERVANCY$50,000
GLIDE FOUNDATION$45,000
CENTER FOR DOMESTIC PEACE$40,000
CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT$40,000
POMEROY RECREATION & REHABILITATION CENTER$20,000
HALLECK CREEK RANCH$15,000
HOMEWARD BOUND OF MARIN$10,000
HAND IN HAND OUTDOORS$10,000
BAY AREA WOMEN'S AND CHILDREN'S CENTER$10,000

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

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.

Community Housing Sonoma County

Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.

Housing & Shelter

Monterey Bay Horsemanship

Providing horse based therapy for handicapped and developmentally disabled adults and children.

Human Services

Marin Humane Society

Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support.

Animals

People with Disabilities Succeeding

Community support for Developmentally Disabled Adults, with a main emphasis on helping people to obtain and maintain real jobs in local businesses.

Employment

Marin Ventures

The mission of Marin Ventures is to serve adults with developmental disabilities by fostering independence, personal growth, and promoting the opportunity for community integration based upon individual need.Marin Ventures is an Adult…

Human Services

Bay Area Barns and Trails

Human Services

Green Foothills Foundation

Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.

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California Housing Partner Corporation

The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.

Unclassified

Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services

San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture

San Francisco Senior and Disability

Senior and Disability Action mobilizes and educates seniors and people with disabilities to fight for individual rights and social justice. More than 1000 people take part in our housing, health care, transit and empowerment programs each…

Unclassified

California Farmland Trust

The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Halleck Creek Ranch and the most unlike its peers is The Body Positive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

11/11

Grantees still filing

6/11

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$6,890,443Food & Nutrition$300,000Human Services$110,000Health$74,400Environment$50,000Religion$45,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Housing & Shelter$10,000

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.

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 organisation THE MINER 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.

2024

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

04Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE BODY POSITIVE.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 461136919 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on THE BODY POSITIVE, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 59% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Miner Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Miner Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE MINER FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Miner Foundation?

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THE MINER FOUNDATION

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Miner Foundation?

More from the funding graph