· Private foundation
Arata Brothers Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $269k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Improve Your Tomorrow | $100,000 |
| 916 Ink | $59,250 |
| 916 Ink | $59,250 |
| Sierra Nevada Journeys | $50,000 |
| Womens Empowerment | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Society for the Blind | $12,000 |
| Yolo Basin Foundation | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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 +68% since the first grant, against +49% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- 9I916 INK9× · 2017–2025 · $726k · revenue +177%
- IYIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC9× · 2017–2025 · $606k · revenue ×18
- SNSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS4× · 2022–2025 · $250k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- CIConstruction Industry Ed Foundationone grant, 2023 · $25k
- STSHOULDER TO SHOULDERone grant, 2017 · $25k
- UAURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +56%
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.
The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…
Color The Block fosters a healthier, more equitable society by providing access to creative, educational, and environmental programs. We operate with the belief that collective action, creative expression, and hands-on learning experiences…
To inspire and prepare young people to succeed in a global economy. junior achievement programs correlate between the common core and california content standards. ja's proven volunteer-based delivery model merged with the latest…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
The Organization's mission is to ensure that individuals and families experiencing homelessness or the risk of homelessness are able to access housing services and resources on their path to economic stability. The Organization is the lead…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Year Inc and the most unlike its peers is Marshall Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 44 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 916 INK ↗
- Who funds IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds A TOUCH OF UNDERSTANDING ↗
- Who funds SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Yolo Basin Foundation ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Mandarins of Sacramento Inc ↗
- Who funds SHOULDER TO SHOULDER ↗
- Who funds URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SACRAMENTO INC ↗
- Who funds MARSHALL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT LIFELONG ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Urban Debate League ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
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: Teichert Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Deacon Charitable Foundation · Taylor-Meyer Family Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The California Endowment · Safe Credit Union · Sierra Health Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Arata Brothers Trust 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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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