· Private foundation
Traditional Medicinals Foundation
Guided by a deep respect for the healing power of plants, the foundation promotes environmental conservation, the empowerment and preservation of the indigenous people that cultivate and collect medicinal herbs, and community development and empowerment in the communities in which medicinal herbs are collected as well as the community in…
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 $10k34 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Botanical Bus | $26,000 |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $10,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Landpaths | $10,000 |
| Emergency Assistance Foundation | $6,250 |
| Upward | $5,000 |
| Ceres Community Project | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Cotati Rohnert Park Co-Op Nursery S | $2,500 |
| Food For Thought | $2,500 |
| Gathering Thyme School | $2,000 |
| Community Action Partnership | $1,250 |
| WomenServe | $1,205 |
| The Regents of the University of Ca | $1,000 |
| International Society for Ethnobota | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 95% of Traditional Medicinals 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. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 5% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +17% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 19 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- BBBOTANICAL BUS5× · 2020–2024 · $116k · revenue +411%
- REREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $60k · revenue +17%
THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT4× · 2020–2024 · $35k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
- SSurgicorpone grant, 2019 · $18k
- MMMARWAR MUSLIM EDUCATIONAL & Wone grant, 2017 · $14k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center On Rural Innovation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Womenserve. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
63 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. 63 of the 118 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
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 BOTANICAL BUS ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds LandPaths ↗
- Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE ENDOMARCH INC ↗
- Who funds WOMENSERVE ↗
- Who funds UNITING PROFESIONAL WOMEN ACCELERATING RELATIONSHIPS ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Rise Up 94965 Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Youth in Arts ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds American Botanical Council ↗
- Who funds COTATI-ROHNERT PARK CO-OP NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE GLENWOOD SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Earth Island Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PETALUMA RIVER ↗
- Who funds LUXEMBOURG AMERICAN CULTURAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Weinreb Pilecki Segal Foundation · The Heck Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc · Cs Fund · Speedway Children's Charities
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 Traditional Medicinals 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.
- Center On Rural Innovation Inc — 37% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc — 22% 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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