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California · Public charity

The Plank Foundation

Financial aid to organization & individuals.

$42k
Granted FY2023
3
Itemized grants FY2023
3
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2023
$21k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2023
$7,500
Largest grant, FY2023
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 3
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2023
1
Total assets, FY2023
$859k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Plank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20233$21k0%
FY20222$15k0%
FY20212$19k50%
FY20202$13k0%
FY20193$20k33%
FY20182$14k100%
FY20171$10kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Health$111k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Bristol Hospice Foundation of California$45,00084%
Hoffmann Hospice of The Valley$26,00060%
Kern County Cancer Foundation$17,50041%
Cbcc Foundation for Community Wellness Inc$12,50022%
Second Star to the Right$10,0001n/a

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Kern Community Founda…
Kern Community FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation

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.

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About The Plank Foundation

How much does The Plank Foundation give?
The Plank Foundation reported 3 itemized grants totaling $21,000, out of $42,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 3 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Plank Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Health (100%).
Who are The Plank Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: Bristol Hospice Foundation of California ($45k), Hoffmann Hospice of The Valley ($26k), Kern County Cancer Foundation ($18k).
Does The Plank Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Plank Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kern Community Foundation.
Where is The Plank Foundation based?
The Plank Foundation is based in CA.

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 5 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $44k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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