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American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Northern California Chapter

To encourage the study, improve the practice, elevate the standards and advance the cause of matriomonial law so that the welfare of the family and society preserved.

$40k
Granted FY2019
10
Grants FY2019
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2019 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k9 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$679k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AAML FOUNDATION$20,000
LIFEMOVES$4,000
COOPERATIVE RESTRAINING ORDER CLINIC$2,000
OVERCOMING BARRIERS FAMILY CAMP$2,000
NEXT DOOR - SANTA CLARA$2,000
HARMONY AT HOME MONTEREY$2,000
CONTRA COSTA FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE$2,000
SAFE & SOUND$2,000
FAMILY VIOLENCE APPELLATE PROJECT$2,000
FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER$2,000
02The need
02

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 (FY19–19, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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%NEXT DOOR - SANTA CLARA: $2k → 8%HARMONY AT HOME MONTEREY: $2k → 12%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 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
Family Violence Law Center

FVLC helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention services, offer prevention for…

Crime & Legal
2
Center for Community Solutions

The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…

Health
3
Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice

The survivor justice center secures justice for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault and empowers them to create their own future.

4
Little Fork Family Advocacy Center Inc

Little fork family advocacy center brings trauma-informed care closer to home for families in rural southwest ohio. through trusted partnerships and compassionate services, we support children and families impacted by abuse and trauma -…

Crime & Legal
5
Compass Family Services

Compass family services helps homeless families and those at imminent risk to achieve housing stability, economic self-sufficiency, and well-being.

Human Services
6
Center for Domestic Peace

We are Marin's champion in the movement to end domestic violence - working at the intersection of survivors, systems, and community.

Human Services
7
The Center for Violence-Free Relationships

The Center for Violence-Free Relationships is dedicated to building healthy relationships, families, and communities free from sexual assault and domestic violence through education, advocacy, and services in western El Dorado County.

8
Prevail Ca

To provide safety, compassion, and respect as we educate, empower, and advocate for individuals, families, and young people.

Human Services
9
Family Safety Network Inc

Mission: advocating healthy relationships while empowering survivors of domestic and sexual violence in teton valley. vision: a world where individuals, families, and communities thrive in collective safety and wholeness.

Crime & Legal
10
Family Services of Tulare County Inc

The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…

Human Services
11
KidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County

Our mission is to end child abuse and neglect through educating, advocating, and counseling to empower and strengthen children and families. Our vision is that all children live in a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment.

Crime & Legal
12
Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault Services of Whatcom County

The mission of domestic violence and sexual assault services is to support individuals affected by domestic violence, sexual assault, and sexual exploitation, and to lead the community toward ending these abuses of power.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Contra Costa Family Justice Alliance and the most unlike its peers is Common Ground Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AAML FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherAAML FOUNDATIONLIFEMOVES — $4,000 · OtherLIFEMOVESSAFE & SOUND — $2,000 · OtherSAFE & SOUNDCOOPERATIVE RESTRAINING ORDER CLINIC — $2,000 · OtherCOOPERATIVE RESTRAINING ORDER CLINICFAMILY VIOLENCE APPELLATE PROJECT — $2,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY VIOLENCE A…FAMILY & CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER — $2,000 · Crime & LegalFAMILY & CHILDREN…CONTRA COSTA FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $2,000 · Crime & LegalCONTRA COSTA FAMI…NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $2,000 · Human ServicesNEXT DOOR S…HARMONY AT HOME — $2,000 · Human ServicesHARMONY AT …COMMON GROUND CENTER INC — $2,000 · Education
Other$28,000Crime & Legal$6,000Human Services$4,000Education$2,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetLIFEMOVES — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY VIOLENCE APPELLATE PROJECT — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER — $2,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONTRA COSTA FAMILY JUSTICE ALLIANCE — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHARMONY AT HOME — $2,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMON GROUND CENTER INC — $2,000 over 3y, 0.4% 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.

Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA16.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Northern California Chapter 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.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 9%
  • Common Ground Center Inc9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Northern California Chapter?

Find your warmest path to American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers Northern California Chapter 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 10 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $16k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2019, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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