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The William L Price Foundation at a glance

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The William L Price 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.

$147k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$439kInternational$247kFood & Nutrition$219kHuman Services$55kAnimals$53kEnvironment$52kEducation$47kHousing & Shelter$27kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $57k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
$2,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$25,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY MELANOMA RESEAR$25,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITYDEPT OF UROLOGY$10,000
REMOTE AREA MEDICAL FOUNDATION$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS$10,000
FEEDING AMERICA$10,000
ORBIS INTERNATIONAL$7,000
UNITED IRISH SOCIETIES$5,000
NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY$5,000
SMILE TRAIN$4,000
HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH$3,000
MAUI FOOD BANK$3,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL$3,000
CANINE COMPANIONS$3,000
OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL SCHOOL$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 61% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $500 → 13%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $500 → 13%SENIOR NETWORK SERVICES: $500 → 13%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $5k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $3k → 10%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $3k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $3k → 10%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $1k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $3k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $2k → 10%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NY
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CA
VA
AZ
TN
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DC
HI
AL
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How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.2M · 66 repeat orgs$81k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +87% since the first grant, against +55% for those funded once.

66 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

66
29

Total granted

$1.2M
$80k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+87%
+55%

Still filing today

53%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
InternationalCrime & LegalHuman ServicesEnvironmentAnimalsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $129k · revenue +98%
  • Feeding America
    5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +40%
  • MC
    Mercy Corps
    7× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • TO
    TOWN OF ATHERTON REDEVLOPMENT FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SU
    STANDFORD UNIVERSITYDEPT OF UROLOGY
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • AA
    ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $7k · revenue +37%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
4
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
5
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
6
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
7
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
8
Oceana Inc

To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.

Environment
9
Project Drawdown

Project drawdown's mission is to drive meaningful climate action by advancing science-based solutions and strategies. project drawdown's work is focused on three pillars: science - advancing science-based climate solutions and strategies;…

Education
10
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa; the most unlike its peers is National Wildlife Federation. 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

51 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 51 of the 99 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/51
Grantees still filing
44/51
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

REMOTE AREA MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $106,000 · OtherREMOTE AREA MEDICAL FOUNDATIONSTANFORD UNIVERSITY MELANOMA RESEAR: $100,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY MELANOMA RESEARMEALS ON WHEELS: $97,000 · OtherMEALS ON WHEELSLUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $42,000 · OtherORBIS INTERNATIONAL: $33,500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $31,000 · OtherSMILE TRAIN INC: $31,000 · OtherNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY: $28,000 · Other+62 more: $358,931 · Other+62 moreMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $129,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRON…Mercy Corps: $32,000 · InternationalMercy CorpsAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $18,000 · InternationalAMNESTY INTERNATIO…HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $17,000 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH…ACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $7,000 · International+1 more: $6,000 · InternationalFeeding America: $41,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $23,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $9,500 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $500 · Food & NutritionCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $21,000 · Human ServicesHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesBY THE BAY HEALTH: $9,000 · Human ServicesHOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $9,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $19,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $13,000 · EnvironmentPoint Reyes National Seashore Association: $10,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $18,000 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,500 · AnimalsASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $4,300 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $3,500 · Animals+1 more: $500 · AnimalsPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $6,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $6,000 · HealthHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC: $5,000 · HealthRICHMOND AREA MULTI-SERVICES INC: $4,000 · Health
Other$827,431International$209,000Food & Nutrition$74,000Human Services$53,000Environment$44,500Animals$31,800Health$21,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $129,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetFeeding America: $41,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Corps: $32,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $31,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $23,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $21,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $19,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $18,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $17,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED IRISH SOCIETIES OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $11,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetPoint Reyes National Seashore Association: $10,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $9,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBY THE BAY HEALTH: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT: $9,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Assistance to the Elderly: $7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONOR NETWORK WEST: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $5,575 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $5,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHAYMAKERS FOR HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII: $4,300 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRICHMOND AREA MULTI-SERVICES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING: $2,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Coast Air Museum: $1,700 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCharity Foundation: $1,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSENIOR NETWORK SERVICES INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $1,320 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR CITIZENS LEGAL SERVICES: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLava Mae: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSERVATION COUNCIL FOR HAWAII: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Bridges: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT READ INC: $200 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds Feeding America ↗
  • Who funds Mercy Corps ↗
  • Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
  • Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED IRISH SOCIETIES OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
  • Who funds Point Reyes National Seashore Association ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
  • Who funds BY THE BAY HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds HOMELESS GARDEN PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Francisco Fou…Community Foundation …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Marin Community Found…Sutter Bay HospitalsMonterey Peninsula Fo…Gordon E and Betty I …Silicon Valley Commun…East Bay Community Fo…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…
The San Francisco FoundationCA17.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The William L Price Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William L Price Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Mercy Corps: 47% of income from government
  • Caldera: 1% of income from government
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The William L Price Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The William L Price 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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