How much did CALIFORNIA GREEN BUSINESS NETWORK grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of CALIFORNIA GREEN BUSINESS NETWORK’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

small businessesbeachsantaenergyeducationaleconomicsan francisco

2021

chamber commercesantabeachsaneducationaleconomicenergy

2022

chamber commercebeachenergysansantacostamaterial

2023

chamber commercevalleybeachsanenergysantaincrease

2024

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$30,000

Median grant

States reached

$595k

Total assets

Largest grants

CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD$30,000

02The need

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 85% of your dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$2.2M · 33 repeat orgs$421k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against -21% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 33 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$2.2M

$391k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%

-21%

Still filing today

18%

25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Community ImprovementEnvironmentEducationOther

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

HS
HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FDTN
4× · 2020–2023 · $171k · revenue +267% · 26% of their budget
MC
MODESTO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
3× · 2021–2023 · $120k · revenue +13%
SM
SANTA MARIA VAL COMM FDTN
3× · 2021–2023 · $77k · revenue +162% · 34% of their budget

Funded once

EA
ECOLOGY ACTION OF SANTA CRUZ
one grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue -21%
GS
GREATER STOCKTON CHAMBER
one grant, 2023 · $68k
EI
ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATIONS
one grant, 2021 · $65k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of

The Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce advocates for and supports economic success of its members and the six-county capital region by leading the effort to grow and retain business.

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Greater Eureka Chamber of Commerce

To advance the economic vitality of our community by serving as a catalyst for business growth, a convener of leaders, a champion for development, and an advocate for a thriving place to work and live.

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The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber

We are a unified voice advocating for a strong business community and a vibrant economy.

Community Improvement

Simi Valley Chamber of Commerce

The chamber of commerce is a broad-based federation of business, industrial, professional firms and interested individuals organized to enhance simi valley's economic health through various programs & community projects.

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Visalia Chamber of Commerce

To stimulate economic and community development programs in the san joaquin valley.

Community Improvement

Sacramento Hispanic Chamber of Commerce

Our mission is to strengthen the regions business community by providing education, technical assistance, access to capital, procurement facilitation and workforce development training.

Community Improvement

San Clemente Chamber of Commerce

The San Clemente Chamber of Commerce supports the business community by providing the forum to help businesses build important community connections to enable them grow prosperous businesses.

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Escondido Chamber of Commerce

The Chamber is the voice for businesses in Escondido providing leadership and guidance for the local small business community.

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West Sacramento Chamber of Commerce

To promote business in West Sacramento, CA

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Capital Black Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Sacramento Black chamber of commerce is to assure member businesses will benefit through services that sustain and increase their revenue. Additionally, the region will benefit through the growth of African American…

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Lodi District Chamber of Commerce

Promote the city of lodi including the businesses, industries and residents of northern san joaquin county.

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Greater Redding Area Chamber of Commerce

The greater redding chamber of commerce is an association of businesses organized to improve the business climate and contribute to the economic health of its membership and the greater redding area.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Business Council and the most unlike its peers is High Sierra Energy Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

9/10

Grantees still filing

5/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$2,261,678Environment$241,090Community Improvement$114,318Education$45,000

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.

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.

California Fire FoundationCA21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: California Fire Foundation · Public Health Institute · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Foundation for California Community · California Fire Safe Council Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Direct Relief · East Bay Community Foundation · California Health Foundation and Trust · Sierra Health Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Health Plan Inc · Center for Technology and Civic Life

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 organisation CALIFORNIA GREEN BUSINESS NETWORK 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SANTA MARIA VAL COMM FDTN.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.6× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 752983776 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SANTA MARIA VAL COMM FDTN, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 34% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to California Green Business Network?

Find your warmest path to California Green Business Network through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CALIFORNIA GREEN BUSINESS NETWORK

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to California Green Business Network?

More from the funding graph

CALIFORNIA GREEN BUSINESS NETWORK

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to California Green Business Network?

More from the funding graph