· Private foundation
The Redwoods Group Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GATEWAY REGION YMCA | $27,741 |
| POSITIVE CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE | $5,000 |
| HIGHER EDUCATION PROTECTION NETWORK | $5,000 |
| MASSACHUSETTS CITIZENS FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DEEP EAST TEXAS | $2,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH CENTRAL GEORGIA | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $292k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Redwoods Group Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +45% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 59 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA3× · 2021–2023 · $58k · revenue +5%
- GPGreater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association2× · 2021–2022 · $45k · revenue +38%
- ACAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2020–2022 · $33k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo Countygraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +265%
- YOYMCA OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOISone grant, 2018 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $25k
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.
The mission of the ymca of central new mexico is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. for over 100 years, the ymca of central new mexico has served our community…
The mission of the brainerd family ymca is to enhance the lives in the brainerd lakes area by connecting individuals and families with opportunities based on christian values that build a healthy spirit, mind, & body.
The young men's christian association of delaware county d/b/a the community ymca of eastern delaware county ("the community ymca or "the organization") was organized on december 14, 1948 under the laws of pennsylvania as a nonprofit…
Our mission is to put Judeo-Christian principles into practice though programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. The YMCA of Greensboro is a volunteer-led public charity that includes men, women, and children of all ages,…
The mission of the YMCA is to put Christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. We are an inclusive organization, serving all people regardless of background, religion, beliefs,…
Our mission is to build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities. The YMCA of the Chippewa Valley is a community centered association dedicated to building a healthy spirit, mind and body for all people, while maintaining an…
The y's programs focus on improving people's spiritual, intellectual, and physical well-being to support people as they actualize their fullest potential. the ymca serves community members of all abilities, ages, cultural backgrounds,…
The mission of the lake county ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
Providing recreational activities without regard to race, religion, or socio-economic status
The mission of the ymca is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. the y mission is also to advance our cause of strengthening community through youth development,…
Our mission is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all. our focus is on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility. we help kids succeed, prepare teens…
We build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities with a primary focus on youth activities and programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Silicon Valley and the most unlike its peers is Underwater Hypoxic Blackout Prevention Inc. 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 60 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
153 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. 153 of the 227 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Greater Philadelphia Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY REGION YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF DURHAM AND ORANGE COUNTIES ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BIRMINGHAM INC ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association of the Greater Houston Area ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Pueblo County ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF GREATER ROCHESTER (4368) ↗
- Who funds The Young Men's Christian Association of the Triangle Area Inc (4598) ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF METROPOLITAN DALLAS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF WAKE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MAUI INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Bogalusa Louisiana ↗
- Who funds HIGHER EDUCATION PROTECTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds FROST VALLEY YMCA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE ALLIANCE OF YMCAS ↗
- Who funds Valley of the Sun Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds Positive Childhood Alliance North Carolina ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
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: National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · USA Swimming Foundation Inc · Dollar General Literacy Foundation · Good Sports Inc · Parkinson's Foundation Inc · Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · The Gap Foundation · The Provident Bank 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 Redwoods Group Foundation Inc 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Meeting Waters Ymca — 75% of income from government
- Southington-Cheshire Community Ymca — 23% of income from government
- Mt Hood Kiwanis Camp — 18% of income from government
- The Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro South Inc — 13% of income from government
- B'nai Brith Men's Camp Association — 7% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Delaware — 1% of income from government
- West Suburban Young Men's Christian Association — 0% 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.
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