California · Community foundation
Amador Community Foundation Inc
The foundation receives and administers gifts and bequests exclusively for charitable purposes used to promote educational, cultural, health, social and civic development primarily for the benefit of amador county residents.
- $1.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 38
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $826k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $16,065
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $79,784
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $7.4M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 18% of the organizations Amador Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 37 | $826k | 24% |
| FY2023 | 33 | $610k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $376k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $481k | 45% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $204k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 21 | $512k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $490k | 58% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $723k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Pal Humane Society | $377,628 | 8 | 22% |
| City of Sutter Creek | $325,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tri County Wildlife Care Inc | $317,114 | 8 | 36% |
| Amador County Unified School | $298,768 | 3 | n/a |
| Knight Foundry Alliance | $252,482 | 7 | 15% |
| Interfaith Council of Amador | $237,065 | 8 | 5% |
| Amador Stars | $185,540 | 8 | 34% |
| Amador Pregnancy Help Center | $172,314 | 7 | 28% |
| The Amador Community College Foundation | $131,809 | 6 | 17% |
| Hospice of Amador & Calaveras | $121,250 | 7 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| A-Pal Humane Society | $377,628 | 8 | 22% |
| City of Sutter Creek | $325,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Tri County Wildlife Care Inc | $317,114 | 8 | 36% |
| Amador County Unified School | $298,768 | 3 | n/a |
| Knight Foundry Alliance | $252,482 | 7 | 15% |
| Interfaith Council of Amador | $237,065 | 8 | 5% |
| Amador Stars | $185,540 | 8 | 34% |
| Amador Pregnancy Help Center | $172,314 | 7 | 28% |
| The Amador Community College Foundation | $131,809 | 6 | 17% |
| Hospice of Amador & Calaveras | $121,250 | 7 | 1% |
| City of Ione | $114,213 | 3 | n/a |
| Operation Care | $106,979 | 6 | 3% |
| American Indian Council of Mariposa County | $105,000 | 2 | 31% |
| Foothill Conservancy | $98,464 | 7 | 39% |
| Amador County Senior Citizens | $88,014 | 4 | 3% |
| Kennedy Mine Foundation | $81,059 | 6 | 21% |
| Friends of Amador & the Christine & Helen Landgraf | $75,688 | 7 | 27% |
| Amador County Arts Council | $70,498 | 6 | 8% |
| New Hope Home | $62,127 | 4 | n/a |
| Victory Village Inc | $60,529 | 3 | 3% |
| St Katherine Drexel Society of St Vincent de Paul | $52,741 | 3 | 29% |
| Amador County Historical Soc | $51,263 | 6 | n/a |
| Amdador Td Club | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Volcano Theatre Company | $44,564 | 6 | 12% |
| 26th Distric Agricultural Assoc | $42,367 | 1 | n/a |
| Sutter Valley Hospitals | $40,600 | 2 | 0% |
| Wood Angels | $40,452 | 3 | 19% |
| Mother Lode Land Trust | $34,594 | 3 | 9% |
| Small Change for Big | $32,482 | 1 | n/a |
| Amador Tuolumne Caa | $31,342 | 2 | n/a |
| Fiddletown Preservation Society Inc | $30,085 | 2 | n/a |
| Fiddletown Community Center | $29,651 | 4 | 41% |
| Nami-Amador | $29,516 | 4 | 24% |
| Shenandoah Community Club | $27,730 | 3 | n/a |
| Amador County Fair Foundation | $27,607 | 4 | 8% |
| Friends of the Amador County Library | $24,107 | 4 | n/a |
| Italian Benevolent Society | $23,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Sutter Creek Community Benefit Foundation | $22,756 | 3 | n/a |
| Sutter Health | $21,186 | 1 | 0% |
| Nexus Youth and Family Services | $19,223 | 2 | 1% |
| Amador Trail Stewardship Inc | $18,760 | 1 | n/a |
| Pastor of St Katharine Drexel Parish Martell a Corporation Sole | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Amador County Sheriffs Foundation | $16,484 | 2 | n/a |
| Amador County True Sportsman Club True Sportsman Club | $13,721 | 1 | 11% |
| Mother Lode Youth Soccer League | $7,500 | 1 | 6% |
| Pine Grove Civic Improvement Club | $7,494 | 1 | n/a |
| Lockwood Fire Protection Distrib | $7,140 | 1 | n/a |
| Amador County Deputy Sheriffs Foundation | $7,000 | 1 | 20% |
| Call to Inspire | $6,704 | 1 | n/a |
| Creekside United Methodist Church | $6,510 | 1 | n/a |
| The Resource Connection of Amador and Calaveras Counties Inc | $6,406 | 1 | 0% |
| The Sutter Creek Theatre Company | $6,100 | 1 | 16% |
| Hearts4heroesusa | $6,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Jackson Creek Homeowners Association | $6,000 | 1 | 7% |
| First Responders Support Network | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Plymouth-Foothill Rotary Club Foundation Inc | $5,923 | 1 | 3% |
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($120k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Amador Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 8 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
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About Amador Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Amador Community Foundation Inc give?
- Amador Community Foundation Inc reported 38 itemized grants totaling $825,512, out of $1,000,374 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Amador Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Animals (16%), Arts & Culture (16%), Health (14%).
- Who are Amador Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: A-Pal Humane Society ($378k), City of Sutter Creek ($325k), Tri County Wildlife Care Inc ($317k).
- Does Amador Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Amador Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American River Bank Foundation, Sutter Valley Hospitals, Calaveras Community Foundation.
- Where is Amador Community Foundation Inc based?
- Amador Community Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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