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The Radford Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$17k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$105kPhilanthropy$44kArts & Culture$39kEducation$22kHealth$13kFood & Nutrition$5kRecreation & Sports$3kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$15k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS$7,750
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE AT STANFORD$5,000
NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PGA FOUNDATION$2,500
YMCA$1,500
PROJECT AVARY$200
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $66k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $25k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $8k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $8k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $6k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $5k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $5k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $3k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $3k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $3k → 8%WOMEN SV: $500 → 8%WOMEN SV: $250 → 8%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $250 → 8%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $250 → 8%SKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $250 → 8%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.
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 5% of The Radford Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Radford Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$148k · 13 repeat orgs$40k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
13

Total granted

$148k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+24%

Still filing today

69%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureInternationalEducationCrime & LegalOther
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

  • NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +68%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +6%
  • FH
    FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $10k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • C
    CHACC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • TP
    TYLER PUTNAM FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
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
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association

California casa was founded in 1987. its mission is to ensure that children and youth in the child welfare and juvenile justice systems have both a voice and the services they need to thrive. we achieve this by strengthening and empowering…

Civil Rights
2
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
3
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - SV2

Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact…

Philanthropy
4
Valle Del Sol Inc

Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.

Health
5
Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits

To advance the role, voice, and capacity of the nonprofit community so it can be a force for positive social change and support the creation of equitable, vibrant, and thriving communities.

Education
6
La Clinica Del Valle Family Health Care Center Inc

La clinica provides primary and preventive medical, dental, behavioral health, and other health promotion services to underserved and low-income patients.

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7
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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8
Active San Gabriel Valley

Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.

Community Improvement
9
Silicon Valley Defense Working Group Co

Silicon Valley Defense Group convenes experts in technology, investment, and government for discussions on how to better collaborate between the various groups. The comments and topics are then published on our website to help educate and…

Education
10
Alternative Schools Inc

To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.

Education
11
CalCef Innovations

Optimizing the clean energy transition - 100%+ clean energy economy for the 100%.

Environment
12
Family Violence Law Center

FVLC helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention services, offer prevention for…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Caminar; the most unlike its peers is Daraja Education Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

16 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. 16 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
13/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA: $37,600 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREACHACC: $25,000 · OtherCHACCIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $5,000 · OtherTYLER PUTNAM FOUNDATION: $4,000 · OtherEL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3,350 · Other+9 more: $7,650 · Other+9 moreNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $64,100 · Human ServicesNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC…+2 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $44,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIE…NORTHERN CALIFORNIA PGA FOUNDATION: $2,500 · PhilanthropyNORTHERN CALIFORNIA PG…FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION OF THE LOS ALTOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM AKA LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM: $2,600 · Arts & CultureCHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL: $7,500 · HealthPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,000 · Health+1 more: $250 · HealthRESURGE INTERNATIONAL: $1,750 · InternationalPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH: $750 · Crime & LegalDaraja Education Fund: $500 · Education
Other$97,600Human Services$65,600Philanthropy$46,500Arts & Culture$12,600Health$8,750International$1,750Crime & Legal$750Education$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $64,100 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $44,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA: $37,600 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE LOS ALTOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM AKA LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM: $2,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRESURGE INTERNATIONAL: $1,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMENSV: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSKY'S THE LIMIT FUND: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDaraja Education Fund: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMINAR: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetScotts Valley Little League: $100 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Los Altos Mountain Vi…The David and Lucile …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Tides FoundationJewish Community Fede…Kalbach Family Founda…Hutton Family Foundat…The Corrigan-Walla Fo…Sutter Bay Medical Fo…The Sobrato Family Fo…Morgan Stanley Global…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA23.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Tides Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Kalbach Family Foundation · Hutton Family Foundation · The Corrigan-Walla Foundation · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · 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 Radford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Radford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    5report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Radford Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Radford 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 28 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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