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William and Inez Mabie Family Foundation

Its FY2021 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.6M
Granted FY2021
16
Grants FY2021
3
States reached
$750k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172021.

Crime & Legal$1.8MEducation$1.8MHealth$1.4MEnvironment$253kFood & Nutrition$235kAnimals$139kHousing & Shelter$30kPublic Safety & Disaster$11kOther$0
02FY2021 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $81k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.3M
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Santa Clara Law School$750,000
UC Davis Foundation$500,000
ALS Gold West Chapter$200,000
Center for Biological Diversity$50,000
Immigration Institute of the Bay Ar$50,000
Equal Justice America$16,000
Community Food Bank of San Benito C$15,000
Save Napa Valley Foundation$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Maldanado Foundation$10,000
The Napa Communities Firewise Found$10,000
Connolly Ranch Education Center$10,000
Napa Climate Now350 Bay Area$8,000
Collabria Care$5,000
Cub Scout Pack 7196$1,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Collabria Care: $5k → 9%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.

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.

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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 10 repeat orgs$2.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +118% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2021, 6 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
24

Total granted

$3.0M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+118%
+31%

Still filing today

40%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $855k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21
EducationEnvironmentFood & NutritionAnimalsHealthCrime & LegalOther

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

  • RE
    REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK
    4× · 2017–2020 · $190k · revenue +118%
  • MC
    Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
    3× · 2017–2019 · $140k · revenue +162%
  • EJ
    EQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $85k · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Santa Clara Law Schoo
    one grant, 2020 · $750k
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +39%
  • UD
    UC Davis Center of Equine Health
    one grant, 2017 · $250k

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
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
2
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
3
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
4
Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden

Rancho santa ana botanic gardens promotes botany, conservation, and horticulture to inspire, inform and educate the public and scientific community about california's native flora. the garden is devoted to the collection, cultivation,…

Environment
5
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
6
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education
7
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
8
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
10
The California Endowment
Philanthropy
11
Sonoma Ecology Center

The Mission of Sonoma Ecology Center is to work with our community to enhance and sustain ecological health in the Sonoma valley.

Environment
12
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens and the most unlike its peers is Sonoma Botanical Garden. 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

19 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. 19 of the 46 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Santa Clara Law School — $1,700,000 · OtherSanta Clara Law SchoolForbes Norris MDAALS Research Cntr — $750,780 · OtherForbes Norris MDAALS Research CntrUniversity of Santa Clara Law Schoo — $750,000 · OtherUniversity of Santa Clara Law SchooUC Davis Center of Equine Health — $250,000 · OtherUC Davis Center of Equine HealthALS Gold West Chapter — $200,000 · Other+26 more — $420,265 · Other+26 moreTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $500,000 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATI…PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $500,000 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TR…COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SAN BENITO COUNTY — $45,000 · Education+2 more — $15,000 · EducationREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $190,000 · Food & NutritionCONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER — $10,000 · Food & NutritionMendocino Coast Botanical Gardens — $140,000 · EnvironmentSAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Environment+1 more — $5,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $50,000 · AnimalsSONOMA COUNTY HORSE COUNCIL — $50,000 · AnimalsEQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA INC — $85,000 · Crime & LegalMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · HealthSQUARE PEG FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Health
Other$4,071,045Education$1,060,000Food & Nutrition$200,000Environment$155,000Animals$100,000Crime & Legal$85,000Health$15,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $500,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $190,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetMendocino Coast Botanical Gardens — $140,000 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA INC — $85,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY HORSE COUNCIL — $50,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SAN BENITO COUNTY — $45,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetDAMIAN MALDONADO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSonoma Botanical Garden — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYCEE FRANCAIS DE SAN FRANCISCO — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLABRIA CARE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
  • Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK
  • Who funds Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE AMERICA INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC
  • Who funds SONOMA COUNTY HORSE COUNCIL
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SAN BENITO COUNTY
  • Who funds COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS
  • Who funds MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds CONNOLLY RANCH EDUCATION CENTER
  • Who funds SAVE NAPA VALLEY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds DAMIAN MALDONADO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION
  • Who funds Sonoma Botanical Garden
  • Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE
  • Who funds LYCEE FRANCAIS DE SAN FRANCISCO
  • Who funds COLLABRIA CARE
  • Who funds AMERICAN CONIFER SOCIETY

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 FoundationCA14.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 William and Inez Mabie Family 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%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 William and Inez Mabie Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to William and Inez Mabie Family 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 46 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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