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The Ralph Knox Foundation Trust

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$947k
Largest
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172023.

Youth Development$1.3MEducation$1.2MRecreation & Sports$81kHealth$59kFood & Nutrition$48kHuman Services$34kPhilanthropy$14kArts & Culture$8kOther$0
02FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$947,423
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Monterey Peninsula College$947,423
Boys Girls Club$947,422
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–20, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%American Red Cross: $2k → 14%Harmony at Home: $6k → 12%Harmony at Home: $6k → 12%Harmony at Home: $5k → 12%Loaves Fishes and Computers: $8k → 12%Loaves Fishes and Computers: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 16 repeat orgs$35k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +47% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

$2.8M
$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+47%

Still filing today

31%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • FB
    FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $48k · revenue +55%
  • HA
    HARMONY AT HOME
    3× · 2017–2019 · $17k · revenue +258%
  • LF
    LOAVES FISHES & COMPUTERS INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $13k · revenue +106%

Funded once

  • GI
    Girls Incorporated of the Central Coastgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +122%
  • EY
    EXPRESS YOURSELF INC
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • BV
    BAY VIEW ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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.

1
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
2
Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals for Monterey County

The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…

Animals
3
Marcella Foundation
Philanthropy
4
Nancys Project

Nancy's Project strives to improve the health and well-being of Monterey County farm worker families by providing food, clothing, household goods and enrichment items.

Food & Nutrition
5
Foodwise Community

Foodwise grows thriving communities through the power and joy of local food. We envision a world that nourishes all people, local economies, and the living earth.

6
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
7
Big Brothersbig Sisters Agency of Santa Cruz County Inc

Create and support mentoring matches that ignite the power and promise of youth.

8
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

9
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
10
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
11
Community Action Marin

We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.

Human Services
12
Partners for Peace

Partners For Peace is a community-based nonprofit organization dedicated to building strong families and safer communities throughout Monterey County. Founded on the belief that peace is possible when families are supported and empowered,…

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is South Monterey County Animal Rescue. 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

10 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Boys Girls Club — $1,273,063 · OtherBoys Girls ClubMonterey Peninsula College — $1,039,422 · OtherMonterey Peninsula College+16 more — $435,687 · Other+16 moreHARMONY AT HOME — $17,251 · Human ServicesLOAVES FISHES & COMPUTERS INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,000 · Human ServicesGirls Incorporated of the Central Coast — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBAY VIEW ACADEMY — $5,000 · EducationREAD TO ME PROJECT — $1,500 · EducationNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $6,174 · PhilanthropySouth Monterey County Animal Rescue — $1,000 · Animals
Other$2,748,172Human Services$32,251Youth Development$10,000Education$6,500Philanthropy$6,174Animals$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJOSEPHINE KERNES MEMORIAL POOL — $80,684 over 6y, 15% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $48,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHARMONY AT HOME — $17,251 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetLOAVES FISHES & COMPUTERS INC — $13,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGirls Incorporated of the Central Coast — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetBAY VIEW ACADEMY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREAD TO ME PROJECT — $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
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 JOSEPHINE KERNES MEMORIAL POOL
  • Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY
  • Who funds HARMONY AT HOME
  • Who funds LOAVES FISHES & COMPUTERS INC
  • Who funds Girls Incorporated of the Central Coast
  • Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BAY VIEW ACADEMY
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds READ TO ME PROJECT
  • Who funds South Monterey County Animal Rescue

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.

Monterey Peninsula FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ralph Knox Foundation Trust 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get 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
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Ralph Knox Foundation Trust?

    Find your warmest path to The Ralph Knox Foundation Trust 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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