· Public charity
Butte County Office of Education
To support educational programs in butte county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k17 grants · $339k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $331k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BUTTE COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION | $120,000 |
| PIONEER UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $52,656 |
| OROVILLE CITY ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $52,656 |
| GRIDLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $52,656 |
| THERMALITO UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $52,656 |
| BIGGS UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $40,000 |
| SHERWOOD MONTESSORI | $40,000 |
| MANZANITA ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $32,656 |
| DURHAM UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $30,000 |
| ACHIEVE CHARTER SCHOOL OF PARADISE | $25,312 |
| PALERMO UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| BLUE OAK CHARTER SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| FOREST RANCH CHARTER SCHOOL | $15,256 |
| STREAM CHARTER SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| PARADISE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL | $12,656 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY23–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of your 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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $424k went to new ones.
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
- CBCORE BUTTE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $53k · revenue +13%
- CCCHICO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $53k · revenue +9%
- CCCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $53k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- NCNORD COUNTRY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +12%
- HCHOMETECH CHARTER SCHOOL INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +32%
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.
Working together with the cottonwood community, cottonwood creek charter school staff and parents will help students reach their highest potential.
To focus on the success of each student & involve parents in the education of their children. the school is comitted to providing appropriate physical space, materials, qualified personnel, and staff development in order to guide the…
To provide a rigorous interdisciplinary curriculum which prepares students to enter higher education and occupations in their communities with an understanding of their geographic and historical roots and the goals toward which they can…
Harvest ridge cooperative charter school is committed to collaborating with parents, teachers, and students to provide a high quality educational experience, which enhances the joy of learning and inspires a commitment to lifelong learning.
Our mission is to foster the innate curiosity of our students, empower their parents, and promote optimum learning by collaboratively developing a personalized learning program for each student.
South sutter charter school is an independent study charter school that provides a voluntary public educational choice for families of students who choose to educate their children in the home environment.
To cultivate student success through mindful perseverance, critical thinking, resourcefulness and advanced knowledge that will prepare students for high levels of success in school, work, and life, while honoring the individuality and…
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
The charter school mission is to provide a rigorous, well-rounded education, with a focus on science and sustainability, that helps students acquire the academic and personal skills they need to excel in higher education, think creatively,…
Wildflower open classroom focuses on the education of the "whole child" by supporting the cognitive, social, emotional, and physical needs of our students. with a diverse learning environment, students flourish through the use of…
Provide a high standard of education to students through comprehensive curriculum supported by energetic, dynamic, and caring teachers.
Academy charter school (the "school") was formed in 1993 pursuant to the colorado charter schools act to form and operate a charter school.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Paradise Charter Middle School and the most unlike its peers is Nord Country School. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 ACHIEVE CHARTER SCHOOL OF PARADISE ↗
- Who funds CORE BUTTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHICO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PARADISE CHARTER MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds INSPIRE SCHOOL OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds SHERWOOD MONTESSORI CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORD COUNTRY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HOMETECH CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE OAK CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FOREST RANCH CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds STREAM CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
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: North Valley Community Foundation · Golden Valley Bank Community · California Charter Schools Association · Amazonsmile 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 Butte County Office of Education 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.