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Armrod Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION GOSPEL MISSION | $40,000 |
| MARSHALL FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH | $15,000 |
| WESTERN HEALTHCONNECT FOR PETALUMA VALLEY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| CALIFORNIA-HAWAII ELKS MAJOR PROJECT INC | $15,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY (AUBURN CORPS) | $10,000 |
| HOUSE OF HOPE FOUNDATION INC (SAN PEDRO) | $6,000 |
| STAND UP PLACER | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE AUBURN AREA RECREATION AND PARKS INC | $5,000 |
| SAMARITAN'S PURSE | $5,000 |
| GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION INC | $5,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC | $2,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SUPPORTING THE TAYLOR HOUSE | $1,500 |
| FEED THE HUNGRY | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 33% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
49 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- RARECLAIMING AMERICANS FREEDOM2× · 2017–2018 · $700k · revenue +920%
- UGUNION GOSPEL MISSION8× · 2017–2024 · $285k · revenue +41%
- GWGRANITE WELLNESS CENTERS3× · 2017–2019 · $275k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- HCHANCOCK COMMITTEE FOR THE STATESone grant, 2017 · $400k
- CFCITIZENS FOR SELF-GOVERNANCEone grant, 2018 · $300k · revenue -1%
- UDUNIVERSITY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +22% · 29% of their budget
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.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
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,…
California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.
The california wildlife center (cwc) takes responsibility for the protection of all native wildlife through rehabilitiation, education and conservation. as the los angeles area's premier wildlife medical care and rehabilitation facility,…
The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…
The mission of the placer society for the prevention of cruelty to animals (placer spca) is to enhance the lives of companion animals and support the human-animal bond.
Research, develop and promote waste reduction policies and programs
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is House of Hope. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
85 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. 85 of the 146 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.
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- Who funds Sierra College Foundation ↗
- Who funds PLACER LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds National Congress of Black Women Inc ↗
- Who funds Placer Repertory Theater ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
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- Who funds CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COAST CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE TANZANIAN CHILDRENS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKLIN COMMUNITY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SENIORS FIRST INC ↗
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- Who funds AUBURN CIVIC SYMPHONY ↗
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- Who funds WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE ↗
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 · Placer Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Dignity Health · Taylor-Meyer Family Foundation · Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation · The McConnell Foundation · Mother Lode 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 Armrod Charitable 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.
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Global Empowerment Mission Inc — 0% 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.