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American River Bank Foundation

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$185k
Granted FY2021
19
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Human Services$90kHousing & Shelter$55kFood & Nutrition$53kHealth$25kYouth Development$23kCrime & Legal$22kInternational$10kCommunity Improvement$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k6 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $152k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Women s Empowerment$15,000
CASA Placer$15,000
CASA Sacramento$15,000
Sacramento Life Center$15,000
My Sister s House$12,000
3 Strands Global Foundation$10,000
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services$10,000
Placer Food Bank$10,000
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Sacramento Area$10,000
Redwood Empire Food Bank$10,000
Sacramento Regional Family Justice Center$10,000
Amador Pregnancy Help Center dba Amador Pregnancy & Family Resource C$10,000
Catholic Charities - Homeless Shelter$10,000
Amador Community College Foundation$8,000
Family Promise of Sacramento$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CASA Placer: $15k → 6%The Living Room Center: $10k → 9%CASA Placer: $10k → 6%Catholic Charities - Homeless Shelter: $10k → 9%Nexus Youth & Family Services (CASA Amador): $5k → 10%Wellspring Women's Center: $8k → 12%Individuals Now Social Advocates fo: $13k → 9%Individuals Now Social Advocates for Youth: $5k → 9%Sacramento Children's Home: $10k → 12%Chicks in Crisis: $10k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

47%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$138k · 6 repeat orgs$158k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +48% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

$138k
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+66%
+48%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21
Human ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHealthCivil RightsCrime & LegalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WE
    WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +66%
  • SL
    Sacramento Life Center Inc
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +21%
  • CO
    CASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +248%

Funded once

  • CI
    Chicks in Crisis Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +40%
  • OPERATION CARE
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +0%
  • TL
    THE LIVING ROOM CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +162%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
City of Refuge Sacramento

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…

Human Services
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
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

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.

Human Services
4
Casa de Esperanza

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…

Human Services
5
Casa of Solano County

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.

Civil Rights
6
Safe Nesttemporary Assistance for

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.

Human Services
7
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
8
Prevail Ca

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

Human Services
9
News

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…

Human Services
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Santa Barbara County

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.

Civil Rights
11
Northern Valley Catholic Social Service Inc

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…

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12
Catholic Charities of Yolo-Solano

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…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Regional Family Justice Center Foundation Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
21/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter: $25,000 · Human ServicesCASA of Placer Yuba and SutterINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $17,500 · Human ServicesINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOC…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA: $10,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF…Chicks in Crisis Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesChicks in Crisis IncTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE LIVING ROOM CENTERSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $10,000 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOMEWELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER: $7,500 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTERNEXUS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMADOR PREGNANCY HELP CENTER: $10,000 · OtherAMADOR PREGNANCY HELP CE…BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA INC: $10,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS…SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 · OtherSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & F…OPERATION CARE: $10,000 · OtherOPERATION CARESACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · OtherSACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMI…3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Other3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATI…Victory Village Inc: $5,000 · OtherVictory Village IncWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $25,000 · EducationWOMEN'S EMPOWE…THE AMADOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationTHE AMADOR COM…Family Promise of Sacramento: $5,000 · EducationFamily Promise…REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $20,000 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EMPIR…FEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $10,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING THE F…FOOD FOR THOUGHT: $5,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD FOR THOU…Sacramento Life Center Inc: $25,000 · HealthSacrament…Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County: $25,000 · Civil RightsCourt App…My Sisters House: $12,000 · Crime & Legal
Human Services$95,000Other$65,000Education$38,000Food & Nutrition$35,000Health$25,000Civil Rights$25,000Crime & Legal$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $25,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSacramento Life Center Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCourt Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County: $25,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMy Sisters House: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMADOR PREGNANCY HELP CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF THE GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetChicks in Crisis Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION CARE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LIVING ROOM CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE AMADOR COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetWELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER: $7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFamily Promise of Sacramento: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetNEXUS YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVictory Village Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Sacramento Region Com…California Foundation…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Kelly FoundationTeichert FoundationUnited Way California…Lee and Carol Tager F…Sutter Valley Hospita…Sierra Health Foundat…Dignity HealthPfund Family Foundati…Umpqua Bank Charitabl…
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA31.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American River Bank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American River Bank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to American River Bank Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to American River Bank Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2022) is on record and reports $561k 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 FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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