· Community foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMADOR COUNTY SENIOR CENTER | $10,000 |
| MURPHYS COMMUNITY CLUB | $10,000 |
| CALAVERAS COMMUNITY TV | $10,000 |
| MOTHERLODE FERAL CAT ALLIANCE | $10,000 |
| CALAVERAS HUMANE SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| CALAVERAS UNIFIED SD (HIGH SCHOOL) | $10,000 |
| DOUGLAS FLAT COMTTE CTR | $10,000 |
| THE RESOURCE CONNECTION | $10,000 |
| MURPHYS SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $10,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN PLAYERS | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- MHMOKELUMNE HILL VETS MEMORIAL DISTRICTone grant, 2020 · $25k
- ACANGELS CAMP MUSEUMone grant, 2020 · $25k
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 56 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 MOTHERLODE FERAL CAT ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds DOUGLAS FLAT COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE RESOURCE CONNECTION OF AMADOR AND CALAVERAS COUNTIES INC ↗
- Who funds EBBETTS PASS COMMUNITY CENTER 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.
Open a dossier: Mark Twain Medical Center · Amador Community Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Calaveras Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Calaveras Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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