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Double R Family Foundation

St Helena, CA · EIN 93-4884781. Reported 21 grants totalling $500,140 to 21 organizations across tax years 2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$10,000median grant
$500,140granted, 2024
21organizations funded
$10.9Massets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Double R Family Foundation did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $10,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $4,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $3,000 and the largest $200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

$1,000 - $5,000
6 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
8 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
1 grant

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Brannan CenterCalistoga, CA$200,000112024
Brooke USA IncLexington, KY$90,000112024
Cowtown Friends of FortworthArlington, TX$44,640112024
Collabria CareNapa, CA$25,500112024
City of St HelenaSt Helena, CA$20,000112024
Sunrise Horse RescueCalistoga, CA$20,000112024
All Seated in a BarnShafter, CA$15,000112024
Dogwood Animal Rescue ProjectSanta Rosa, CA$10,000112024
Friends of Dallas Animals SvcsCarrollton, TX$10,000112024
Giant Steps TherapeuticPetaluma, CA$10,000112024
Puertas AbiertasNapa, CA$10,000112024
St Luke's Episcopal ChurchCalistoga, CA$10,000112024
Calistoga FirefightersCalistoga, CA$5,000112024
Crush Cancer Napa ValleySt Helena, CA$5,000112024
Napa-Sonoma 325 Squad Club IncNapa, CA$5,000112024
Tunnel to Towers FoundationStaten Island, NY$4,000112024
Shriners Hospitals for ChildrenSt Louis, MO$3,500112024
St Jude Children'sMemphis, TN$3,500112024
Chp 11-99 FoundationCosta Mesa, CA$3,000112024
Napa Valley Vine Trail CoalitionNapa, CA$3,000112024
St Helena Hospital FoundationSt Helena, CA$3,000112024

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 11 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Animal Welfare
4 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Environment
1 grant
Mutual Benefit
1 grant

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 69% of this one's giving went to organizations in California. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

California
$344K
Kentucky
$90K
Texas
$55K
New York
$4K
Missouri
$4K
Tennessee
$4K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc10 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program5 shared recipientsAmerican Endowment Foundation5 shared recipientsMarin Community Foundation4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $10,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in California.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Double R Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 2 returns (tax years 2023-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 1201 Main Street, St Helena, CA, 94574. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 93-4884781 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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