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Beneto 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 $10k12 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $269k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MERCY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK | $28,572 |
| RITECARE CHILDHOOD LANGUAGE | $25,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES | $25,000 |
| SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK | $20,208 |
| YOLO CRISIS NURSERY | $20,000 |
| THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL - TRANSITION TO PERMANENT HOUSING SOLUTI | $20,000 |
| FAMILY PROMISE OF SACRAMENTO | $10,000 |
| SOIL BORN FARMS | $10,000 |
| OKIZU FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $10,000 |
| PERSONAL CARE PANTRY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $178k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- DADESERT ARC6× · 2017–2023 · $292k · revenue +59%
- MFMERCY FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +73%
- SFSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES5× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $10k
- 3G3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +397%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.
Youth For Change (YFC) mission is to enhance the well being of children, families, individuals, and communities.
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
To help solve the most challenging issues facing youth and families in northern california by providing tailored services from counseling and therapy to alternative placements with an end result of permanently connecting our young clients…
Turning point community programs strives to set the standard for individualized care that provides hope for recovery.
Crf, in partnership with our clients and stakeholders, designs, delivers and evaluates innovative and exemplary behavioral health and social services in a manner that is both culturally and trauma competent, providing these services with…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento is committed to positively impacting the lives of children, youth, and families affected by abuse, neglect, behavioral health issues, and trauma in California.Our Vision: To be a leader in…
Our mission is to support children/youth, and their families, in and at-risk of foster care, to build hope and achieve bright futures through wellness, education, relationships, and career focused services and resources.
Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Happy Trails Riding Academy and the most unlike its peers is The Ark Preschool. 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 33 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 54 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 DESERT ARC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Yolo Crisis Nursery ↗
- Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Sacramento ↗
- Who funds RIDE TO WALK INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TRAILS RIDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE RANCH RECOVERY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARK PRESCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds OLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds YOLO HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds The Cowpoke Foundation ↗
- Who funds 3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF AMADOR AND CALAVERAS ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
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 · Kelly Foundation · Teichert Foundation · The George and Lena Valente Foundation · Dignity Health · Safe Credit Union · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Pfund Family Foundation · Taylor-Meyer Family Foundation
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 Beneto 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.
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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