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The Uplands Family Foundation

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.

$236k
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$50k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Education$937kPhilanthropy$279kHealth$187kHuman Services$182kArts & Culture$169kInternational$166kEnvironment$162kFood & Nutrition$113kOther$0
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k22 grants · $58k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $128k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$2,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LA FAMILIA SANA$50,000
MOUNT TAMALPAIS SCHOOL$40,000
SAINT PATRICK'S SCHOOL$20,000
10000 DEGREES$13,000
MARIN CATHOLIC$12,500
THE LITTLE SCHOOL$12,500
MARK DAY SCHOOL$10,000
CATE SCHOOL$10,000
AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
MONGABAYORG$5,000
THE REPRESENTATION PROJECT$5,000
NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY$5,000
SAINT PATRICK CHURCH$5,000
ZAMORANO$2,500
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 (FY17–24, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ALDEA: $3k → 9%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $2k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1k → 17%REACH SHIRATI: $15k → 10%REACH SHIRATI: $10k → 10%REACH SHIRATI: $4k → 10%REACH SHIRATI: $4k → 10%REACH SHIRATI: $3k → 10%REACH SHIRATI: $3k → 10%REACH SHIRATI: $3k → 10%CORAZN HEALDSBURG: $25k → 9%CORAZN HEALDSBURG: $25k → 9%CORAZN HEALDSBURG: $13k → 9%REACH SHIRATI: $10k → 10%CORAZN HEALDSBURG: $3k → 9%THE LITTLE SCHOOL: $13k → 8%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

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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 11% of The Uplands Family Foundation’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 Uplands Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.2% 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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.0M · 73 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +50% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.

73 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

73
59

Total granted

$2.0M
$196k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+38%

Still filing today

55%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationEnvironmentHealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

  • MT
    MOUNT TAMALPAIS SCHOOL
    4× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +80%
  • H
    Heyday
    4× · 2019–2022 · $109k · revenue +32%
  • LF
    LA FAMILIA SANA
    3× · 2022–2024 · $93k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • MM
    MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +35%
  • CT
    Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma Countygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +60%
  • EI
    Earth Innovation Institute
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -53%

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
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
2
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
3
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
6
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

7
The San Francisco School

A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.

8
Bay Nature Institute dba Bay Nature Bay Nature Magazine

Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.

Environment
9
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
10
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
11
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

12
Millennium School of San Francisco

See schedule oto realize the transformative potential of middle school. millennium school believes in developing each student to their fullest potential, this involves providing both a rigorous academic program and a science-based…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Oakland Public Education Fund and the most unlike its peers is Healdsburg Futbol Club Association. 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 backsteadyK-12 Schools and Educationa…Legal Services & Justice Ad…Labor Union Benefit PlansYouth Sports LeaguesCommunity Health ClinicsPerforming Arts EducationAnimal Rescue and WelfarePolicy & Systems Change Org…
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 30 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr20%29%20–35yr14%27%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%29%10–20yr20%17%20–35yr14%35%35–55yr12%10%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/91
the rest of the field
11%
5,513/48,473

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

85 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. 85 of the 139 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
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Grantees still filing
64/85
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $151,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientAMERICAN BONE HEALTH — $150,000 · OtherAMERICAN BONE HEALTHMOUNT TAMALPAIS SCHOOL — $145,000 · OtherMOUNT TAMALPAIS SCHOOLSAINT PATRICK'S SCHOOL — $100,000 · OtherSAINT PATRICK'S SCHOOLLA FAMILIA SANA — $92,500 · OtherLA FAMILIA SANAMARK DAY SCHOOL — $90,000 · OtherMARK DAY SCHOOLSAINT PATRICK SCHOOL — $52,500 · Other+86 more — $599,000 · Other+86 moreSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $261,000 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC10000 DEGREES — $70,100 · Education10000 DEGREESMARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationMARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SC…CHATHAM HALL — $41,500 · EducationCHATHAM HALLMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationNORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY — $24,500 · EducationThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $20,000 · Education+13 more — $85,500 · Education+13 moreSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG — $65,500 · Human ServicesReach Shirati — $51,000 · Human ServicesThe Little School-Tiburon — $12,500 · Human ServicesTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $11,000 · Human Services+1 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesHeyday — $109,200 · Arts & CultureKQED INC — $8,500 · Arts & CultureBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $5,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureAGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN — $65,000 · EnvironmentMONGABAY ORG CORP — $27,500 · EnvironmentPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION — $16,500 · EnvironmentHills Conservation Network — $5,000 · Environment+4 more — $11,500 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC — $112,000 · InternationalSIEMPRE UNIDOS — $6,000 · InternationalTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 · InternationalJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $45,600 · AnimalsPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc — $10,000 · AnimalsTHE MILO FOUNDATION — $7,000 · AnimalsMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $3,000 · Animals+1 more — $2,000 · Animals
Other$1,380,000Education$577,600Human Services$142,500Arts & Culture$127,700Environment$125,500International$123,000Animals$67,600

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 budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $261,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN BONE HEALTH — $150,000 over 5y, 9.4% of budgetMOUNT TAMALPAIS SCHOOL — $145,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC — $112,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetHeyday — $109,200 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetLA FAMILIA SANA — $92,500 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetMARK DAY SCHOOL — $90,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budget10000 DEGREES — $70,100 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG — $65,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN — $65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetReach Shirati — $51,000 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetMARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $45,600 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHATHAM HALL — $41,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMONGABAY ORG CORP — $27,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY — $24,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC — $22,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION — $20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetThe Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute — $20,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetThe Representation Project — $17,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION — $16,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC — $16,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCATE SCHOOL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Little School-Tiburon — $12,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $12,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF PUGET SOUND — $12,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetEarth Innovation Institute — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPeggy Adams Animal Rescue League of the Palm Beaches Inc — $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY OF CHINESE CULTURE AND HEALTH SCIENCES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY VINTNERS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPALONG ANIMAL RESCUE — $9,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKQED INC — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY FIRE FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN — $7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MILO FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIEMPRE UNIDOS — $6,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHEALDSBURG FUTBOL CLUB ASSOCIATION — $6,000 over 3y, 8.2% of budgetInland Empire Community Foundation — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHills Conservation Network — $5,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNORTHEAST HARBOR SAILING SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTurning Green — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation — $5,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMOUNT DESERT NURSING ASSOC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE SYNERGOS INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 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.

  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC
  • Who funds AMERICAN BONE HEALTH
  • Who funds MOUNT TAMALPAIS SCHOOL
  • Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC
  • Who funds Heyday
  • Who funds LA FAMILIA SANA
  • Who funds MARK DAY SCHOOL
  • Who funds 10000 DEGREES
  • Who funds SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG
  • Who funds AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN
  • Who funds Reach Shirati
  • Who funds MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL
  • Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
  • Who funds CHATHAM HALL
  • Who funds MONGABAY ORG CORP
  • Who funds MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL
  • Who funds NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY
  • Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC
  • Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION
  • Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute
  • Who funds The Representation Project
  • Who funds PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC
  • Who funds CATE SCHOOL
  • Who funds The Little School-Tiburon
  • Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA49.9× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund · Bothin Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Susanna Porter & James Clark Giving Fund

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 Uplands Family Foundation 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 · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Island Housing Trust Corporation1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 Uplands Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Uplands Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 139 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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