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Calaveras Community Foundation
To facilitate and develop philanthropy and grant making and to take other actions for the benefit of the communities of calaveras county
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $100,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $235,961 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $135,961 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALAVERAS UNIFIED SD (HIGH SCHOOL) | $10,000 |
| DOUGLAS FLAT COMTTE CTR | $10,000 |
| THE RESOURCE CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| AMADOR COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| MURPHYS COMMUNITY CLUB | $10,000 |
| MURPHYS SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| CALAVERAS COMMUNITY TV | $10,000 |
| MOTHERLODE FERAL CAT ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| CALAVERAS HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN PLAYERS | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% 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.
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.
19 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
- MCMURPHYS CREEK THEATRE5× · 2018–2024 · $43k · revenue +503% · 31% of their budget
- MTMark Twain Medical Center Foundation3× · 2019–2024 · $23k · revenue +109%
- ACAmador County Senior Citizens2× · 2024–2025 · $20k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $97k
- ACANGELS CAMP MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $25k
- MHMOKELUMNE HILL VETS MEMORIAL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
The Amador County Equine Sanctuary is dedicated to rescuing and re-homing horses in need through adoption and re-homing programs designed to offer adoptable equine an opportunity for a second career and life-long safe sanctuary to…
To decrease the euthanasia rates in Central California by providing spay & neuter resources
Provide a venue for performing arts in Garberville, CA including theatre, dance music and other performing arts
To provide assistance in emergency situations.
Provide Senior Citizens daily activity programs and nutrition. A thrift shop is operated to partially support the activities.
To Restore and Promote Public Trails
Helping the Hazara Community with their cultural and heritage beliefs.
Business closed waiting for dissolution from California
Amikas works to prevent women and children, especially veteran women, from being homeless. amikas works to create and provide housing options for homeless women and children. amikas works to influence society's perception and public…
To build a united community by awakening, supporting and nourishing the arts in calaveras county, california.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Common Ground Senior Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Peg Access Corp Calaveras Commuity Television. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 56 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 CALAVERAS HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MURPHYS CREEK THEATRE ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND SENIOR SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Mark Twain Medical Center Foundation ↗
- Who funds Manzanita Writers Press ↗
- Who funds Amador County Senior Citizens ↗
- Who funds MURPHYS SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds PEG ACCESS CORP CALAVERAS COMMUITY TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds MURPHYS COMMUNITY CLUB ↗
- Who funds Calaveras County Search and Rescue ↗
- Who funds SIERRA HOPE ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS FLAT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOTHERLODE FERAL CAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE RESOURCE CONNECTION OF AMADOR AND CALAVERAS COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds EBBETTS PASS COMMUNITY CENTER 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: Mark Twain Medical Center · Amador Community Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Calaveras Community 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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