· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k55 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Botanical Bus | $46,000 |
| Landpaths | $25,500 |
| Oko Farms | $20,000 |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $10,650 |
| Graton Green Group | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Food For Thought | $5,000 |
| ABCs for Global Health | $5,000 |
| Upward | $5,000 |
| Sonoma County Action Network | $5,000 |
| WomenServe | $3,000 |
| Berkeley Herbal Center | $3,000 |
| Herbalism Conferences LLC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| CFSCSW100 | $2,600 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 95% of Traditional Medicinals Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 5%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
41 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 34 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $68k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBBOTANICAL BUS6× · 2020–2025 · $162k · revenue +411%
- REREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $71k · revenue +17%
THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT5× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +127%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
- SSurgicorpone grant, 2019 · $18k
- MMMARWAR MUSLIM EDUCATIONAL & Wone grant, 2017 · $14k
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.
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.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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.
World coffee research unites the global coffee industry to drive science-based agricultural solutions to urgently secure a diverse and sustainable supply of quality coffee today and for generations to come. our mission is to grow, protect,…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
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…
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…
Within the Americas promoting dialogue and research, producing studies and reports, conducting courses and conferences particularly in the areas of agroecology and food security
The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.
Through management of oakland zoo, the conservation society of california deepens connection with animals, saves wildlife, and inspires champions for the natural world.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
How this is measured
81 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. 81 of the 154 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 BOTANICAL BUS ↗
- Who funds LandPaths ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- 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 ↗
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- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
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- Who funds ABCs for Global Health Inc ↗
- Who funds CCOF FOUNDATION ↗
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- Who funds American Botanical Council ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds COTATI-ROHNERT PARK CO-OP NURSERY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Traditional Medicinals Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Traditional Medicinals Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Center On Rural Innovation Inc: 37% of income from government
- Xerces Society Inc: 22% of income from government
How this is measured
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