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William H Hinkle Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$93k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0181% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.

Environment$365kEducation$240kFood & Nutrition$50kAnimals$25kArts & Culture$21kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kYouth Development$5kHuman Services$5kCommunity Improvement$5kOther$179k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SEA STAR VILLAGE$50,000
WORLD BAMBOO FOUNDATION$25,000
RUSSIAN RIVER KEEPER$13,000
GEYSERVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY20–20, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Scopa Has A Dream: $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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$611k · 7 repeat orgs$288k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
28

Total granted

$611k
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+48%
+55%

Still filing today

86%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k 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
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationPublic Safety & DisasterFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • SL
    SONOMA LAND TRUST
    5× · 2017–2023 · $325k · revenue +334%
  • PF
    PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2020 · $8k · revenue +9%
  • WB
    WHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST
    2× · 2020–2022 · $6k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • SC
    Sonoma County Grape Growers Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +27% · 28% of their budget
  • UR
    UC Regents
    one grant, 2018 · $35k
  • TC
    THE CALIFORNIA LAND STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +491%

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
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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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
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
5
Sequoia Riverlands Trust

We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.

Environment
6
Rainforest Rising

Large scale restoration of priority ecosystems and habitats.

Human Services
7
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.

—
8
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
9
Northern California Regional Land Trust

The purpose of the organization is to monitor, manage, and preserve conservation easements it stewards in northern california. the organization acquires conservation easements in land exhibiting important natural features to protect and…

Environment
10
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
11
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills

Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.

—
12
Solano Land Trust

The mission of solano land trust is to protect land to ensure a healthy environment, keep ranching and farming families on their properties, and inspire a love of the land.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The California Land Stewardship Institute and the most unlike its peers is Inreach. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%0%<5yr13%14%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr21%41%20–35yr14%9%35–55yr12%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%33%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr21%17%20–35yr14%45%35–55yr12%2%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/27
the rest of the field
11%
3,206/30,498

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 38 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SONOMA LAND TRUST — $325,000 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND TRUSTRussian Riverkeeper — $13,000 · Environment+5 more — $26,516 · Environment+5 moreWORLD BAMBOO FOUNDATION INC — $230,000 · EducationWORLD BAMBOO FOUNDATION INCINREACH — $10,000 · EducationSea Star Village — $50,000 · OtherSea Star VillageUC Regents — $35,000 · OtherUC RegentsIndividual grant recipient — $22,875 · OtherIndividual grant recipie…NETHERLANDS BACH SOCIETY — $15,883 · OtherNETHERLANDS BACH SOCIETYVarious Small Grants — $10,600 · OtherVarious Small Grants+17 more — $59,500 · Other+17 moreSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation — $50,000 · Food & NutritionTHE CALIFORNIA LAND STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE — $25,000 · AnimalsGEYSERVILLE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $15,000 · Arts & CultureDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureGEYSERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 · Arts & CultureNORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY FIRE FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Public Safety & DisasterOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $1,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Environment$364,516Education$240,000Other$193,858Food & Nutrition$50,000Animals$25,000Arts & Culture$21,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,000

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 budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST — $325,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetWORLD BAMBOO FOUNDATION INC — $230,000 over 3y, 100% of budgetSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA LAND STEWARDSHIP INSTITUTE — $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetRussian Riverkeeper — $13,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINREACH — $10,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetPEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION — $8,268 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC — $6,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITE BUFFALO LAND TRUST — $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY FIRE FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDemeo Teen Club Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLime Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCool Effect Inc — $4,998 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGEYSERVILLE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetSANTA ROSA SUNRISE ROTARY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetValley of the Moon Children's Home Foundation — $2,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetGEYSERVILLE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $1,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA MASONIC FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLIMATE RIDE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUTRIGHT VERMONT — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Sonoma County Communi…Marin Community Found…Trione FoundationThe Foley Family Char…Messing Family Charit…The Heck FoundationSonoma County Vintner…ImpactassetsincGs Donor Advised Phil…Vanguard Charitable E…Paypal Charitable Giv…The Pfizer Foundation…
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA21.6× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Trione Foundation · The Foley Family Charitable Foundation · Messing Family Charitable Foundation · The Heck Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 H Hinkle Charitable Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Outright Vermont — 13% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to William H Hinkle Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to William H Hinkle Charitable Foundation Inc 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 38 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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