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The Venables Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$431k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$155k
Largest
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$1.4MPhilanthropy$953kInternational$355kEducation$232kHuman Services$112kHousing & Shelter$15kArts & Culture$11kFood & Nutrition$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $315k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$9.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Schwab Charitable$155,000
The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Al$100,000
Schools Rule Marin$60,000
St Vincent de Paul Society of Marin$25,000
Mary's Meals$25,000
Marin Foster Care Association$25,000
Canal Alliance$10,000
Haiti on the Rise$10,000
The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Al$7,600
St Vincent de Paul Society of SF$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
American Red Cross$2,000
Book Exchange of Marin$2,000
Service Education for Village Aware$1,000
ThinkGlobal Arts Foundation$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.

Your US giving — 64% of grant dollars ($2.0M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 36% that went abroad ($1.1M) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY: $2k → 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

NY
IA
OH
NJ
CA
VA
NC
DC
FL

Beyond the US — 36% of all-years giving ($1.1M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
India$1.1M · 4 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 14 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
13

Total granted

$2.1M
$82k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+10%

Still filing today

64%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
InternationalHuman ServicesReligionHousing & ShelterHealthPublic BenefitOther

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

  • MM
    Mary's Meals USA Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +308%
  • TJ
    THE JESUIT RETREAT CENTER OF LOS ALTOS
    3× · 2020–2025 · $228k · revenue +213%
  • CA
    CANAL ALLIANCE
    6× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +229%

Funded once

  • SR
    SCHOOLS RULE
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • JR
    JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICEUS
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • OS
    Old St Mary's Cathedral
    one grant, 2021 · $10k

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
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
2
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
3
World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.

International
4
Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego

Catholic Charities provides social services and administers various governmental and social programs. Designed to meet the challenge of the ever-changing community by utilizing spiritual, human and financial resources, our programs enable…

Human Services
5
Global Alliance for Improved Nutrition

The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…

Food & Nutrition
6
Solar Cookers International

The mission of Solar Cookers International is to improve human health, economic well-being, womens empowerment, and the environment by promoting climate-friendly solar cooking for vulnerable populations worldwide.

Environment
7
Global Voice
8
Refugees International Inc

Refugees international advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crisis.

International
9
Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation

Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…

Health
10
Marin Made
Environment
11
International Youth Foundation

Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.

International
12
Unitarian Universalist Service Committee Inc

UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies. Our work is grounded in the belief that all people have inherent…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Think Global Arts Foundation. 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

17 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. 17 of the 30 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
11/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Catholic Mission of Western Bengal — $1,119,000 · OtherCatholic Mission of Western BengalTHE JESUIT RETREAT CENTER OF LOS ALTOS — $227,600 · OtherTHE JESUIT RETREAT CENTER OF LOS ALTOSSchools Rule Marin — $215,000 · OtherSchools Rule Marin+16 more — $113,000 · Other+16 moreDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $953,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING IN…Mary's Meals USA Inc — $240,000 · InternationalMary's Meals…HAITI ON THE RISE — $95,000 · InternationalHAITI ON THE…International Rescue Committee INC — $15,000 · International+2 more — $5,500 · InternationalCANAL ALLIANCE — $80,000 · ReligionST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY — $42,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,000 · Human ServicesMARIN FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION — $27,500 · Public BenefitHomeward Bound of Marin — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$1,674,600Philanthropy$953,000International$355,500Religion$80,000Human Services$45,500Public Benefit$27,500Housing & Shelter$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $953,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMary's Meals USA Inc — $240,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetTHE JESUIT RETREAT CENTER OF LOS ALTOS — $227,600 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetHAITI ON THE RISE — $95,000 over 7y, 25% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $80,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY — $42,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION — $27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOME OF HOPE INDIA - US — $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADVOKIDS — $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBOOK EXCHANGE OF MARIN — $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetYouth in Arts — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHINK GLOBAL ARTS FOUNDATION — $500 over 1y, 28% 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC
  • Who funds Mary's Meals USA Inc
  • Who funds THE JESUIT RETREAT CENTER OF LOS ALTOS
  • Who funds HAITI ON THE RISE
  • Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE
  • Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY
  • Who funds MARIN FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
  • Who funds HOME OF HOPE INDIA - US
  • Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC
  • Who funds ADVOKIDS
  • Who funds BOOK EXCHANGE OF MARIN
  • Who funds Youth in Arts
  • Who funds THINK GLOBAL ARTS FOUNDATION

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 FoundationCA17× affinity6 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 · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Venables 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 · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Venables Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Venables 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 30 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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