· Private foundation
Vivian & Jerry Grenier Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SILICON VALLEY | $1,200 |
| FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY | $1,200 |
| SONRISE EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| MERCY SHIPS | $600 |
| LAKE TAHOE WILDLIFE CARE | $600 |
| THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER | $600 |
| EQUINE ADVOCATES | $600 |
| ALLY CAT ALLIES | $600 |
| OHLONE HUMANE SOCIETY | $600 |
| THE HUMANE FARMING ASSOC | $600 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SPCA | $300 |
| REDROVER | $300 |
| RANCHO ROBEN RESCUES | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 72% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 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
BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +39%- SESONRISE EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +52%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- LTLAKE TAHOE WILDFIRE CARESone grant, 2021 · $600
- IBINTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUEone grant, 2024 · $250 · revenue +24%
- PVPEACEFUL VALLEY DONKEY RESCUEone grant, 2024 · $150
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.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
To improve the health & well-being of animals through veterinary aid, response, training, research & local capacity building worldwide. We provide services to companion animals, horses, street dogs, livestock and marine animals including…
All about animals rescue's mission is no more homeless pets.
Fix our ferals (dba animal fix clinic) provides affordable, excellent quality spay/neuter and other life-saving and life-changing surgeries for companion dogs, cats and community cats.
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
To rescue and rehabilitate dogs and cats and place them in forever homes.
Animal care and rescue
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.
To eliminate pet overpopulation, ensure good care and protection for pet companions, and provide referral and financial support for economically challenged pet guardians.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ohlone Humane Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 19 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 BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SONRISE EQUESTRIAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Alley Cat Allies Inc ↗
- Who funds EQUINE ADVOCATES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds The Ohlone Humane Society Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED ANIMAL NATIONS DBA REDROVER ↗
- Who funds THE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds HUMANE FARMING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL BIRD RESCUE ↗
- Who funds Rancho Roben Rescues Inc ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
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: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Vivian & Jerry Grenier 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.
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.