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Bella Vista Foundation at a glance

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Bella Vista Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
105
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$8.9MHuman Services$8.5MHealth$3.2MEducation$1.9MYouth Development$1.5MAnimals$1.3MPhilanthropy$613kCrime & Legal$433kOther$0
02FY2024 · 105 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k66 grants · $2.1M
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $1.7M
$35,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$68M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE FRESHWATER TRUST$120,000
CALIFORNIA TROUT$100,000
MID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL$75,000
THE WILD SALMON CENTER$60,000
SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE$60,000
TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING$60,000
READING PARTNERS$60,000
FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS$60,000
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE$55,000
BUCKELEW PROGRAMS$55,000
DESCHUTES RIVER CONSERVANCY$53,000
PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC$50,000
STARVISTA$50,000
SIERRA STREAMS INSTITUTE$50,000
HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK$50,000
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 (FY17–24, $6.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $55k → 22%STARVISTA: $50k → 7%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 22%THE TIDES CENTER: $60k → 14%THE TIDES CENTER: $50k → 14%HOMELESS CHILDRENS NETWORK: $55k → 10%STARVISTA: $95k → 7%HOMELESS CHILDRENS NETWORK: $50k → 10%STARVISTA: $80k → 7%STARVISTA: $70k → 7%HOMELESS CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $50k → 10%STARVISTA: $65k → 7%STARVISTA: $60k → 7%STARVISTA: $60k → 7%STARVISTA: $60k → 7%PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC: $80k → 8%PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC: $50k → 8%MOUNT ST JOSEPH-ST ELIZABETH: $55k → 10%PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC: $50k → 8%MOUNT ST JOSEPH - ST ELIZABETH: $50k → 10%PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC: $50k → 8%PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC: $50k → 8%MOUNT ST JOSEPH-ST ELIZABETH (EPIPHANY CENTER): $50k → 10%PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC: $50k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $80k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $60k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $55k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $55k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $55k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $55k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $110k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $70k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $65k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $65k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $65k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $60k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $60k → 8%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $85k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $65k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $70k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $65k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $60k → 10%FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $60k → 10%GUM MOON RESIDENCE HALL: $55k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $65k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $65k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $65k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
MA
OR
PA
CA
VA
AZ
SC
DC
OK
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Bella Vista Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 78%.

Bella Vista Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.6% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$25M · 115 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

115 repeat relationships: 77 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

115
45

Total granted

$25M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+21%

Still filing today

91%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $450k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentHealthEducationYouth DevelopmentAnimalsOther
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

  • THE FRESHWATER TRUST
    8× · 2017–2024 · $985k · revenue +40%
  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $910k · revenue +109%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $815k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • MARIN COMMUNITY CLINICgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +42%
  • HF
    HAMILTON FAMILIES
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue -20%
  • DL
    Deschutes Land Trustgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $42k · revenue +395%
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
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
2
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.

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3
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
4
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
5
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
6
San Francisco Estuary Institute

Provide scientific support and tools for decision making and communication through collaborative efforts.

Environment
7
Sequoia Riverlands Trust

We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.

Environment
8
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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9
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
10
Canopy

Canopy collaborates with communities to grow and sustain equitable urban forests for all

Environment
11
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills

Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.

—
12
CalWild

The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Centers; the most unlike its peers is Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

158 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. 158 of the 179 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
157/158
Grantees still filing
119/158
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $815,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SAN…StarVista: $775,000 · Human ServicesStarVistaPARENT SERVICES PROJECT: $520,000 · Human ServicesPARENT SERVICES PROJECTFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $500,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTER…TIDES CENTER: $475,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $450,000 · Human ServicesSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SE…Womens Division Christian Service Gum Moon Residence Hall: $360,000 · Human ServicesWomens Division Christian…Mount St Joseph-St Elizabeth: $300,000 · Human ServicesHomeless Childrens Network: $240,000 · Human Services+25 more: $1,793,500 · Human Services+25 moreWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $455,000 · OtherSAFE & SOUND: $445,000 · OtherGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco: $430,000 · OtherODD FELLOW- REBEKAH CHILDRENS HOME OF CALIFORNIA: $415,000 · OtherCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse: $376,500 · OtherTHE REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA: $350,000 · OtherSOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE: $330,000 · OtherAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $320,000 · OtherSOMOS MAYFAIR INC: $505,000 · OtherSOMOS MAYFAIR INCSUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST: $295,000 · OtherPUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR: $340,000 · Other+53 more: $4,358,946 · Other+53 moreTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $910,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST FOR PUBLI…MID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL: $485,000 · EnvironmentMID KLAMATH WATERSH…MATTOLE RESTORATION COUNCIL: $395,076 · EnvironmentMATTOLE RESTORATION…The Sierra Fund: $377,500 · EnvironmentThe Sierra FundSierra Streams Institute: $360,331 · EnvironmentSierra Streams Inst…DESCHUTES RIVER CONSERVANCY: $357,000 · EnvironmentDESCHUTES RIVER CON…Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: $215,000 · EnvironmentAmerican Forests: $185,000 · EnvironmentBLUE MOUNTAINS FOREST PARTNERS: $184,000 · EnvironmentTruckee River Watershed Council: $169,000 · Environment+17 more: $1,182,178 · Environment+17 moreBUCKELEW PROGRAMS: $570,000 · HealthBUCKELEW PR…Homeless Prenatal Program Inc: $405,000 · HealthHomeless Pr…South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center: $293,000 · HealthSouth Count…SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $190,000 · HealthSAN FRANCIS…Access Institute for Psychological Services: $190,000 · HealthAccess Inst…BEATS RHYMES AND LIFE: $175,000 · HealthBEATS RHYME…Lincoln: $155,000 · HealthLincolnPENINSULA FAMILY CONNECTIONS: $130,000 · HealthSide By Side: $125,000 · HealthONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER: $110,500 · HealthPostpartum Support Center: $110,000 · Health+11 more: $450,000 · Health+11 moreTHE FRESHWATER TRUST: $985,000 · AnimalsTHE FRESHW…CALIFORNIA TROUT INC: $733,000 · AnimalsCALIFORNIA…POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY: $335,000 · AnimalsPOINT REYE…WILD SALMON CENTER: $327,000 · AnimalsWILD SALMO…KLAMATH BIRD OBSERVATORY: $123,107 · Animals+2 more: $127,000 · AnimalsREADING PARTNERS: $265,000 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $255,000 · Education826 Valencia: $245,500 · EducationTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING: $235,000 · EducationSan Francisco Education Fund: $156,000 · EducationREAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS: $55,000 · Education+9 more: $290,250 · EducationLOTUS BLOOM: $165,000 · Youth DevelopmentBridge the Gap College Prep: $160,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHINE TOGETHER INC: $155,000 · Youth DevelopmentLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC: $135,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDPOWER TEENPOWER FULLPOWER International: $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentLiteracy for Environmental Justice: $115,000 · Youth Development+4 more: $85,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$6,228,500Other$8,620,446Environment$4,820,085Health$2,903,500Animals$2,630,107Education$1,501,750Youth Development$940,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FRESHWATER TRUST: $985,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $910,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $815,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetStarVista: $775,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA TROUT INC: $733,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetBUCKELEW PROGRAMS: $570,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetPARENT SERVICES PROJECT: $520,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetSOMOS MAYFAIR INC: $505,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetFAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS: $500,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetMID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL: $485,000 over 8y, 2.8% of budgetTIDES CENTER: $475,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER: $455,000 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $450,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSAFE & SOUND: $445,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco: $430,000 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetODD FELLOW- REBEKAH CHILDRENS HOME OF CALIFORNIA: $415,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $405,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMATTOLE RESTORATION COUNCIL: $395,076 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetThe Sierra Fund: $377,500 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse: $376,500 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetSierra Streams Institute: $360,331 over 8y, 12% of budgetWomens Division Christian Service Gum Moon Residence Hall: $360,000 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetDESCHUTES RIVER CONSERVANCY: $357,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetPUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR: $340,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetPOINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY: $335,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE: $330,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetWILD SALMON CENTER: $327,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMount St Joseph-St Elizabeth: $300,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST: $295,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center: $293,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSan Jose Grail Family Services: $285,000 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetWU YEE CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $280,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $265,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC: $255,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budget826 Valencia: $245,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHomeless Childrens Network: $240,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING: $235,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON FOREST STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION: $220,122 over 6y, 14% of budgetOregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: $215,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetPROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH: $205,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetCENTRAL OREGON LANDWATCH: $195,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $195,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLa Casa de las Madres: $191,500 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS: $190,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $190,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAccess Institute for Psychological Services: $190,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetAmerican Forests: $185,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBLUE MOUNTAINS FOREST PARTNERS: $184,000 over 4y, 58% 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 THE FRESHWATER TRUST ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds StarVista ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC ↗
  • Who funds BUCKELEW PROGRAMS ↗
  • Who funds PARENT SERVICES PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds SOMOS MAYFAIR INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CONNECTIONS CENTERS ↗
  • Who funds MID KLAMATH WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds WESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds SAFE & SOUND ↗
  • Who funds Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds ODD FELLOW- REBEKAH CHILDRENS HOME OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds MATTOLE RESTORATION COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds The Sierra Fund ↗
  • Who funds CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse ↗
  • Who funds Sierra Streams Institute ↗
  • Who funds Womens Division Christian Service Gum Moon Residence Hall ↗
  • Who funds DESCHUTES RIVER CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR ↗
  • Who funds POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE ↗
  • Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
  • Who funds Mount St Joseph-St Elizabeth ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center ↗
  • Who funds San Jose Grail Family Services ↗
  • Who funds WU YEE CHILDREN'S SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds JUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Childrens Network ↗
  • Who funds TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL OREGON FOREST STEWARDSHIP FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Bothin FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Morris Stulsaft F…Marin Community Found…Ggs FoundationJewish Community Fede…McNabb FoundationThe Sobrato Family Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…Sunlight GivingThe David and Lucile …
Bothin FoundationCA77.4× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bothin Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Ggs Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · McNabb Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The David and Lucile Packard 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 Bella Vista Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bella Vista Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 46%
  • Deschutes River Conservancy: 100% of income from government
  • North Fork John Day Watershed Council: 100% of income from government
  • Klamath Bird Observatory: 100% of income from government
  • South Fork John Day Watershed Council: 100% of income from government
  • Central Oregon Forest Stewardship Foundation: 84% of income from government
  • Blue Mountains Forest Partners: 68% of income from government
  • Wild Salmon Center: 49% of income from government
  • Deschutes Land Trust: 46% of income from government
  • The Freshwater Trust: 17% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Desert Association: 9% of income from government
  • Think Wild: 7% of income from government
  • Sustainable Northwest: 5% of income from government
  • Oregon Natural Resources Council Fund Oregon Wild: 2% of income from government
  • Western Rivers Conservancy: 0% of income from government
  • Oregon State University Foundation: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
73report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bella Vista Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bella Vista 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 179 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home