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Arata Brothers Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$336k
Granted FY2025still arriving
8
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Youth Development$1.6MEducation$319kRecreation & Sports$222kHousing & Shelter$155kEmployment$148kHealth$139kArts & Culture$134kCommunity Improvement$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $67k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $269k
$50,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A Touch of Understanding: $65k → 6%A Touch of Understanding: $3k → 6%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.9M · 20 repeat orgs$256k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +68% since the first grant, against +49% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
23

Total granted

$2.9M
$236k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+49%

Still filing today

60%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesInternationalEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
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

  • 9I
    916 INK
    9× · 2017–2025 · $726k · revenue +177%
  • IY
    IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $606k · revenue ×18
  • SN
    SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $250k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • CI
    Construction Industry Ed Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • ST
    SHOULDER TO SHOULDER
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • UA
    URBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +56%
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
California School-Age Consortium Inc

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…

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2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
3
Enterprise for Youth

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.

Youth Development
4
The Language Academy of Sacramento

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…

Education
5
Color the Block

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Junior Achievement of Northern California

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…

International
7
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
8
Turlock Education Opportunity Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
9
Sacramento Steps Forward

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…

Human Services
10
Sbds Sports Academy Sacramento
Recreation & Sports
11
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
12
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

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.…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is City Year Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

23 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. 23 of the 44 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

916 INK: $725,800 · Education916 INKWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $155,000 · EducationWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENTTeach for America Inc: $150,000 · EducationTeach for America IncREADING PARTNERS: $100,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS+3 more: $26,000 · EducationIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC: $605,814 · Youth DevelopmentIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INCSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $250,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYSSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $217,343 · OtherSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYSSAGEGLOBAL: $122,500 · OtherSAGEGLOBALSocial Venture Partners: $80,000 · OtherSocial Venture PartnersSacramento PhilharmonicOpera: $50,000 · OtherSacramento PhilharmonicOperaPUENTES: $37,320 · OtherSacramento Public Library Foundatio: $35,000 · OtherSac Regional Founation SVP: $30,000 · Other+24 more: $294,055 · Other+24 moreSOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC: $71,254 · HealthA TOUCH OF UNDERSTANDING: $68,000 · Human ServicesSOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT: $55,000 · EmploymentYolo Basin Foundation: $40,000 · Environment
Education$1,156,800Youth Development$855,814Other$866,218Health$71,254Human Services$68,000Employment$55,000Environment$40,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budget916 INK: $725,800 over 9y, 13% of budgetIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC: $605,814 over 9y, 4.7% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $250,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $155,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC: $71,254 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetA TOUCH OF UNDERSTANDING: $68,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT: $55,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetYolo Basin Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetSACRAMENTO THEATRE COMPANY: $28,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMandarins of Sacramento Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSHOULDER TO SHOULDER: $25,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetURBAN ASSOCIATION OF FORESTRY AND FIRE PROFESSIONALS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SACRAMENTO INC: $15,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetMARSHALL FOUNDATION: $14,025 over 1y, 30% of budgetPROJECT LIFELONG: $12,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSacramento Urban Debate League: $9,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetSQUARE ROOT ACADEMY: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES: $5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetFosterHope Sacramento: $4,600 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 SQUARE ROOT ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗

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.

Teichert FoundationSacramento Region Com…Kelly FoundationDeacon Charitable Fou…Taylor-Meyer Family F…Sutter Valley Hospita…Enterprise Holdings F…The California Endowm…Safe Credit UnionSierra Health Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Bank of America C…
Teichert FoundationCA32.2× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Arata Brothers Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Arata Brothers Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Arata Brothers Trust?

Find your warmest path to Arata Brothers Trust 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 44 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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