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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.

$322k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$40k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$898kHuman Services$335kFood & Nutrition$315kEducation$229kReligion$175kHousing & Shelter$130kArts & Culture$22kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $269k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
SOIL BORN FARMS$10,000
SHRINERS HOSPITAL$10,000
FAMILY PROMISE OF SACRAMENTO$10,000
OKIZU FOUNDATION$10,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$10,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
POWERHOUSE MINISTRIES$5,000
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $20k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $20k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $15k → 16%THE TAYLOR HOUSE: $5k → 6%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $15k → 12%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $8k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $5k → 16%SHORES OF HOPE: $5k → 16%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $15k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $10k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $10k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $10k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $10k → 12%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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 37 repeat orgs$87k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
10

Total granted

$2.1M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+94%

Still filing today

54%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
HealthHuman ServicesEducationEmploymentPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
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

  • DA
    DESERT ARC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $292k · revenue +59%
  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $230k · revenue +73%
  • SF
    SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES
    5× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • 3G
    3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +397%
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
Sacramento Children's Home

At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.

Human Services
2
Youth for Change

Youth For Change (YFC) mission is to enhance the well being of children, families, individuals, and communities.

Human Services
3
Wayfinder Family Services

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…

Human Services
4
Allies for Every Child Inc

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)

Human Services
5
Stanford Youth Solutions dba Stanford Sierra Youth & Families

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…

Human Services
6
Turning Point Community Programs

Turning point community programs strives to set the standard for individualized care that provides hope for recovery.

Human Services
7
Community Research Foundation Inc

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…

Unclassified
8
Sutter Valley Hospitals

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,…

Health
9
Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento

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…

—
10
Optimist Boys' Home and Ranch Inc

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.

Health
11
Wellnest Emotional Health & Wellness

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…

Human Services
12
City of Refuge Sacramento

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…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Happy Trails Riding Academy; 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.
04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DESERT ARC: $291,648 · OtherDESERT ARCSCOTTISH RITE LANGUAGE CENTER: $150,000 · OtherSCOTTISH RITE LANGUAGE CENTERSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $136,050 · OtherSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICESCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $110,000 · OtherCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOLOKIZU FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherOKIZU FOUNDATIONSHRINERS HOSPITAL: $80,025 · OtherLOAVES AND FISHES: $80,000 · OtherWEST SACRAMENTO XMAS BASKET: $55,559 · OtherRIDE TO WALK INC: $51,000 · Other+28 more: $475,785 · Other+28 moreMERCY FOUNDATION: $230,000 · HealthMERCY FOUNDATIO…PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 · HealthPATHWAY CARING …The Cowpoke Foundation: $15,000 · Health+2 more: $10,000 · HealthYolo Crisis Nursery: $97,500 · Human ServicesYolo Cris…SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $70,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOH…+2 more: $10,000 · Human Services+2 moreFamily Promise of Sacramento: $55,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS: $9,500 · EducationFoster Youth Education Fund: $5,000 · EducationHAPPY TRAILS RIDING ACADEMY: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterSOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT: $23,000 · Employment3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · EmploymentOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC: $22,000 · Arts & CultureGRAND NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$1,520,067Health$305,000Human Services$177,500Education$69,500Public Safety & Disaster$50,000Employment$33,000Arts & Culture$22,000Food & Nutrition$2,000

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 budgetDESERT ARC: $291,648 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION: $230,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $136,050 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYolo Crisis Nursery: $97,500 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES: $80,000 over 4y, 8.6% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $70,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFamily Promise of Sacramento: $55,000 over 6y, 3.1% of budgetRIDE TO WALK INC: $51,000 over 7y, 2.3% of budgetPATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetHAPPY TRAILS RIDING ACADEMY: $50,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetTHE RANCH RECOVERY CENTERS INC: $31,785 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ARK PRESCHOOL: $24,000 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetSOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT: $23,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOLD TOWN ARTISAN STUDIO INC: $22,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetYOLO HOSPICE INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cowpoke Foundation: $15,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE ARC OF AMADOR AND CALAVERAS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetREADING PARTNERS: $9,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUPPORTING THE TAYLOR HOUSE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSHORES OF HOPE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFoster Youth Education Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetGRAND NATIONAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetEisenhower Medical Center: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 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 PATHWAY CARING FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds HAPPY TRAILS RIDING ACADEMY ↗
  • 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 THE ARC OF AMADOR AND CALAVERAS ↗
  • Who funds 3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds SUPPORTING THE TAYLOR HOUSE INC ↗

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.

Sacramento Region Com…Kelly FoundationTeichert FoundationThe George and Lena V…Dignity HealthSafe Credit UnionSutter Valley Hospita…Enterprise Holdings F…California Foundation…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Pfund Family Foundati…Taylor-Meyer Family F…
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report 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

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Beneto Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Beneto 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 54 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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