· Public charity
California Green Business Network
Led by a coalition of state and local governments, utilities, and ngos, the ca green business program achieves a shared mission of recognizing and promoting businesses that meet high sustainability standards.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF WEST HOLLYWOOD | $30,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 85% 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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- HSHIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $171k · revenue +267% · 26% of their budget
- MCMODESTO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE3× · 2021–2023 · $120k · revenue +29%
- SBSierra Business Council2× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- EAEcology Action of Santa Cruzgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $70k · revenue +55%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $68k
- EIENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATIONSone grant, 2021 · $65k
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.
To stimulate economic and community development programs in the san joaquin valley.
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.
The mission of the Castro Valley/Eden Area Chamber of Commerce is to lead the community toward sustainable economic growth, advocate for a pro-business climate for members, honor the area's historical foundations and future promise, and…
Our mission is to strengthen the regions business community by providing education, technical assistance, access to capital, procurement facilitation and workforce development training.
The Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of Commerce is a regional chamber formed in 2016 to support a diverse business community that spans nearly forty-five miles and serves the needs of nearly 500,000 visitors each year. As a business…
To promote business in West Sacramento, CA
To promote the commercial, industrial and civic welfare of the people of San Bernardino by encouraging the production and distribution of goods and services through the creation of more jobs and by enhancing the productivity and…
The purpose is to promote a healthy business environment in the city of Vallejo.
The Chamber is the voice for businesses in Escondido providing leadership and guidance for the local small business community.
The mission of the Central California Hispanic Chamber of Commerce is to promote business from start up to fruition, utilizing the success of our diverse community and the resources of our chamber members. We provide education and…
As the membership organization of business, we promote our community's economic vitality and quality of life through leadership development, advocacy, facilitation and education. The Chamber invests in our community by providing a…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is Westside Community Development Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 46 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 HIGH SIERRA ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MODESTO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds SANTA MARIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Ecology Action of Santa Cruz ↗
- Who funds Sierra Business Council ↗
- Who funds DON'T TRASH ME DBA KERN GREEN ↗
- Who funds Hayward Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds Greater Stockton Chamber of Commerce ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY VENTURES ↗
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: California Fire Foundation · Public Health Institute · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Foundation for California Community Colleges · California Emerging Technology Fund · California Fire Safe Council Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Direct Relief · East Bay Community Foundation · California Health Foundation and Trust · 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 organization 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.
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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to California Green Business Network?
Find your warmest path to California Green Business Network 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.