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The Repass-Rodgers Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$341k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$1.2MEnvironment$1.0MAnimals$57kInternational$47kFood & Nutrition$42kYouth Development$35kHuman Services$25kScience & Tech$23kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $28k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $93k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $221k
$10,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BAYKEEPER$100,000
BAYKEEPER$70,000
U C SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION$50,500
TUOLUMNE RIVER PRESERVATION TRUST$25,000
THE BRENDAN CORPORATION$18,000
BAYKEEPER$10,000
BAYKEEPER$10,000
PRANA YOGA ASHRAM$10,000
THE SAFINA CENTER$10,000
CARNEVALI FOUNDATION$10,000
WATSONVILLE WETLANDS WATCH$6,800
SCHOOL FOR ETHICS AND GLOBAL LEADERSHIP$5,000
SAN DOMENICO SCHOOL$5,000
TUOLUMNE RIVER PRESERVATION TRUST$5,000
REEF CHECK FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY20–20, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FAMILIES IN TRANSITION OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY INC: $5k → 13%GREY BEARS: $5k → 13%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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
SD
RI
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

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

About 7% of The Repass-Rodgers 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.

The Repass-Rodgers Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 8.1% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 42 repeat orgs$468k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 35 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
40

Total granted

$2.0M
$437k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+25%

Still filing today

95%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalHealthOther

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

  • GS
    GOLDEN STATE SALMON ASSOCIATION INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $726k · revenue +81% · 57% of their budget
  • US
    UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $316k · revenue +55%
  • B
    Baykeeper
    3× · 2022–2024 · $315k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • SC
    SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -71%
  • SC
    Save California Salmon
    one grant, 2023 · $100k
  • TR
    THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +93%

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
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
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2
Turtle Island Restoration Network

To mobilize people in local communities around the world to protect marine wildlife and the oceans and inland watersheds that sustain them.

Environment
3
Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Foundation

To engage and catalyze global seafood supply chains in rebuilding depleted fish stocks and reducing the environmental impacts of fishing and fish farming.

Animals
4
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
5
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
6
Wildcoast

The mission of wildcoast is to conserve coastal and marine ecosystems and address climate change through natural solutions. our staff is dedicated to conserving threatened and endangered coastlines and wildlife in california and mexico.…

Environment
7
Greater Farallones Association

Gfa works in partnership with and on behalf of the greater farallones and cordell bank national marine sanctuaries to preserve, monitor, research, educate about and enhance these invaluable marine resources.

Animals
8
Marine Science Institute

The institutes mission is to cultivate a responsibility for the natural environment and our human communities through interdisciplinary science education.

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9
Resource Renewal Institute

The resource renewal institute facilitates the creation, development and implementation of practical strategies to solve the entire complex environmental problem by addressing it comprehensively.

Environment
10
The Coral Reef and Marine Science Foundation Inc C/O James Bildner
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11
Schmidt Ocean Institute
Science & Tech
12
Ocean Conservancy

Ocean conservancy unites science, people, and policy to protect our ocean, today and for generations to come.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wild Salmon Center and the most unlike its peers is Carnevali Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community College Foundatio…Policy Research and AdvocacyPregnancy Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsJewish Community Organizati…School District FoundationsSenior Support ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr11%33%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%5%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%35%10–20yr17%12%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr13%12%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/87
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,891

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.

05the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 90 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
81/82
Grantees still filing
66/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

GOLDEN STATE SALMON ASSOCIATION INC — $726,300 · EducationGOLDEN STATE SALMON ASSOCIATION INCUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $316,000 · EducationUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION+13 more — $124,300 · Education+13 moreBaykeeper — $315,000 · EnvironmentBaykeeperNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $110,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL …SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $100,000 · EnvironmentSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATIONSave California Salmon — $100,000 · EnvironmentSave California SalmonTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER — $30,000 · EnvironmentWATSONVILLE WETLANDS WATCH — $28,800 · Environment+15 more — $74,100 · Environment+15 moreTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $100,000 · AnimalsTHEODORE R…MONTEREY BAY FISHERIES TRUST — $65,000 · AnimalsMONTEREY B…Angler Action Foundation Inc — $40,000 · AnimalsAngler Act…WILD SALMON CENTER — $14,250 · AnimalsWILD SALMO…CALIFORNIA TROUT INC — $10,000 · Animals+4 more — $5,500 · AnimalsTuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance — $72,000 · OtherTuolumne …The Brendan Corporation — $34,000 · OtherThe Brend…Pajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes Inc — $27,000 · OtherPajaro Va…YOGA KIDS ON WHEELS — $10,000 · OtherPRANA YOGA ASHRAM — $10,000 · OtherRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $8,943 · Other+29 more — $51,250 · Other+29 moreTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $45,000 · InternationalTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $12,500 · InternationalTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC — $2,200 · International+1 more — $200 · InternationalTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyElkhorn Slough Foundation — $10,000 · PhilanthropySANTA CRUZ COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION — $1,000 · PhilanthropyCommunity Bridges — $10,000 · Food & NutritionECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM — $5,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$1,166,600Environment$757,900Animals$234,750Other$213,193International$59,900Philanthropy$21,000Food & Nutrition$20,000

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 budgetGOLDEN STATE SALMON ASSOCIATION INC — $726,300 over 5y, 57% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION — $316,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetBaykeeper — $315,000 over 3y, 8.5% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance — $72,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY FISHERIES TRUST — $65,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetTHE IRISH AMERICAN PARTNERSHIP INC — $45,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetThe Brendan Corporation — $34,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetTHE CARL SAFINA CENTER INC THE SAFINA CENTER — $30,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THAYER ACADEMY INC — $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWATSONVILLE WETLANDS WATCH — $28,800 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY — $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPajaro Valley Loaves and Fishes Inc — $27,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSAN DOMENICO SCHOOL — $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budget350ORG — $19,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetRESTORE THE DELTA — $17,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER — $14,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bridges — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA TROUT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Ocean Science Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetElkhorn Slough Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRSF SOCIAL FINANCE INC — $8,943 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGERSON INSTITUTE INC — $6,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Panetta Institute for Public Policy — $5,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOceanic Society Expeditions — $5,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEEN KITCHEN PROJECT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGREY BEARS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES IN TRANSITION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREEF CHECK FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe School for Ethics and Global Leadership — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN AWARENESS PROJECT INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNITED STATES SAILING ASSOCIATION INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONeill Sea Odyssey — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHARTWELL SCHOOL — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDESIGN TECH HIGH SCHOOL — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NETHERLAND-AMERICA FOUNDATION INC — $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR FISHERIES RESOURCES — $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF DESIGN — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Community Foundation …The David and Lucile …Marin Community Found…Monterey Peninsula Fo…Resources Legacy FundSilicon Valley Commun…PatagoniaorgThe Rose Foundation f…Volunteer Centers of …East Bay Community Fo…Gordon E and Betty I …Gs Donor Advised Phil…
Community Foundation Santa Cruz CountyCA34.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Rose Foundation for Communities the Environment · Volunteer Centers of Santa Cruz County · East Bay Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management 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 organization The Repass-Rodgers 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Wild Salmon Center — 49% of income from government
  • National Marine Life Center Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
20report 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

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

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Repass-Rodgers Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Repass-Rodgers Foundation Inc 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 90 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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