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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 38 grants below total $825,512 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,000,374 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $174,862 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $102k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $539k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $184k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A-PAL HUMANE SOCIETY | $79,784 |
| AMADOR STARS | $54,337 |
| AMADOR COUNTY SENIOR CITIZENS | $50,007 |
| AMADOR COUNTY SHERIFF'S FOUNDATION | $46,906 |
| INTERFAITH COUNCIL OF AMADOR | $44,516 |
| 26TH DISTRIC AGRICULTURAL ASSOC | $42,367 |
| TRI COUNTY WILDLIFE CARE | $39,678 |
| KENNEDY MINE FOUNDATION | $37,818 |
| AMADOR PREGNANCY HELP CENTER | $35,337 |
| OPERATION CARE | $32,489 |
| SMALL CHANGE 4 BIG | $32,482 |
| HOSPICE OF AMADOR & CALAVERAS | $26,418 |
| FOOTHILL CONSERVANCY | $26,016 |
| SUTTER AMADOR HOSPITAL FOUN | $21,186 |
| KNIGHT FOUNDRY ALLIANCE | $20,182 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $794k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +40% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- AHA-PAL HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $378k · revenue +34%
- TCTRI COUNTY WILDLIFE CARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $317k · revenue +86% · 36% of their budget
- KFKNIGHT FOUNDRY ALLIANCE7× · 2018–2024 · $252k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- COCITY OF SUTTER CREEKone grant, 2017 · $325k
- ATAMDADOR TD CLUBone grant, 2021 · $50k
- ACAMADOR COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2017 · $49k
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.
Protect the people of amador county and their property from the effects of catastrophic fires through education, cooperation, innovation and action
The Amador County Equine Sanctuary is dedicated to rescuing and re-homing horses in need through adoption and re-homing programs designed to offer adoptable equine an opportunity for a second career and life-long safe sanctuary to…
Evacuation large animals from fire/peril
Animal rescue of abandoned cats and dogs
Support County Search and Rescue Team
Met search and rescue needs in an effective, cooperative and timely manner. educated the public on recreational safety issues. assisted public safety agencies on an as needed basis.
Protection and care of animals
To preserve memories and incidents of our associations in the great wars, and to provide support for community programs. the american legion hall is an official red cross facility during times of disaster. the american legion provides…
To provide support for search and rescue activities of mariposa county search and rescue.
To promote tourism and relocation to amador countythrough newletters and other media. host gathering to promote local businesses.
To provide education, assist emergency services with finding homes and to help mitigate fire hazards around rural neighborhoods.
Our services are designed to address feline overpopulation. We rescue homeless cats and kittens in Ventura County. Provide veterinary care, food support and socialization. . When healthy a life-long home is found for the adoptable cats.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amador Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kennedy Mine Foundation. 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 25 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 65 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 A-PAL HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TRI COUNTY WILDLIFE CARE INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHT FOUNDRY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COUNCIL OF AMADOR ↗
- Who funds AMADOR STARS ↗
- Who funds AMADOR PREGNANCY HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE AMADOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF AMADOR & CALAVERAS ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CARE ↗
- Who funds American Indian Council of Mariposa County ↗
- Who funds CALAVERAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Foothill Conservancy ↗
- Who funds Amador County Senior Citizens ↗
- Who funds KENNEDY MINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMADOR & THE CHRISTINE & HELEN LANDGRAF ↗
- Who funds AMADOR COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Victory Village Inc ↗
- Who funds ST KATHERINE DREXEL SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL ↗
- Who funds AMADOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VOLCANO THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds SUTTER VALLEY HOSPITALS ↗
- Who funds WOOD ANGELS ↗
- Who funds Mother Lode Land Trust ↗
- Who funds FIDDLETOWN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Nami-Amador ↗
- Who funds AMADOR COUNTY FAIR FOUNDATION ↗
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: American River Bank Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Calaveras Community Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Amador Community 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.
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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