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American River Bank Foundation
TheAmericanRiverFoundationiscommittedtosupportingorganizationsthatcreateopportunity,enhanceself-esteemandprovidephysicalandemotionalwell-beingforthemostvulnerablewomenandchildreninourcommunities.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k6 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA Placer | $15,000 |
| CASA Sacramento | $15,000 |
| Sacramento Life Center | $15,000 |
| Women s Empowerment | $15,000 |
| My Sister s House | $12,000 |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $10,000 |
| 3 Strands Global Foundation | $10,000 |
| Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services | $10,000 |
| Amador Pregnancy Help Center dba Amador Pregnancy & Family Resource C | $10,000 |
| Catholic Charities - Homeless Shelter | $10,000 |
| Sacramento Regional Family Justice Center | $10,000 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Sacramento Area | $10,000 |
| Placer Food Bank | $10,000 |
| Amador Community College Foundation | $8,000 |
| Victory Village | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +63% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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
- SLSacramento Life Center Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +21%
- CACourt Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +71%
- COCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +248%
Funded once
OPERATION CAREone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +0%- SCSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOMEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +53%
- CIChicks in Crisis Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +40%
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.
City of Refuge Sacramento, a community-based organization, exists to support people living in marginalized communities of Sacramento and to empower their ability to create a personal transformation that will lead to a healthy and thriving…
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…
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…
Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
Safe nest's mission is to provide comprehensive, collaborative, and innovative services for everyone affected by domestic and sexual violence while passionatley working to end this shared epidemic.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
To provide safety, compassion, and respect as we educate, empower, and advocate for individuals, families, and young people.
News is dedicated to providing safety, hope, healing and empowerment for survivors of domestic and sexual abuse. equally, news is committed to promoting safe communities and social change through prevention, intervention, education, and…
To assure safe, permanent, nurturing homes for abused and/or neglected children by providing highly-trained volunteers to advocate for them in the court system of santa barbara county, california.
Inspiring hope and transforming lives since 1986, nvcss has provided essential services and support to individuals and families throughout northern california. annually, the organization serves more than 84,500 people across six counties…
Our mission is to reach out and provide assistance to anyone in need in our community, especially the poor and disadvantaged. we offer health and social service programs that contribute to the individual's freedom and independence, while…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Regional Family Justice Center Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Chicks in Crisis Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
24 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.
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 Sacramento Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County ↗
- Who funds CASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds My Sisters House ↗
- Who funds 3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA ↗
- Who funds FEEDING THE FOOTHILLS ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMADOR PREGNANCY HELP CENTER ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION CARE ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds Chicks in Crisis Inc ↗
- Who funds THE LIVING ROOM CENTER ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMADOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Sacramento ↗
- Who funds NEXUS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Victory Village Inc ↗
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Kelly Foundation · Teichert Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Sierra Health Foundation · Dignity Health · Pfund Family Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable 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 River Bank Foundation 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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