· Public charity
Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County
Innovating the education-to-career experience to strengthen economic development and student success.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $378k
- $250k+1 grant · $321k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Santa Rosa City Schools | $321,223 |
| Petaluma City Schools | $190,749 |
| West Sonoma County Union High School District | $100,000 |
| NCBE Community Fund | $87,030 |
| Sonoma State University | $35,000 |
| 10000 Degrees | $25,000 |
| Sonoma County Office of Education | $23,950 |
| Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District | $22,000 |
| Rincon Valley Union School District | $14,000 |
| Adele Harrison Middle School | $12,500 |
| Healdsburg High School | $11,960 |
| Sonoma Valley High School | $8,940 |
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +104% since the first grant, against +74% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 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, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475k 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
- NCNORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE INC3× · 2018–2020 · $632k · revenue +104%
- SRSANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOLS4× · 2017–2024 · $576k
- CHCloverdale High School5× · 2017–2021 · $328k
Funded once
- WSWest Sonoma County HS Distone grant, 2021 · $50k
- GNGeyserville New Tech Academyone grant, 2021 · $50k
- HUHealdsburg Unified School Disone grant, 2018 · $42k
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.
Education
Develops construction, design, and trade professionals through educational endeavors, mentoring initiatives, and training activities.
To graduate students with a strong blend of academic and workforce competencies necessary for future success in post-secondary education and in the 21st century technical workforce.
Our mission at rvc is to encourage curiosity and inquiry, foster cultural competency and social-emotional learning, and develop a confident love of learning. our program goes beyond progressive education by using inquiry, exploration,…
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
Cef is serving as a student success innovation fund to promote new, creative and powerful initiatives to improve students' education in our community. it is an advocate for and funds high leverage programs that have well defined outcomes…
The scholarship foundation provides college scholarship grants to qualifying students. their commitment is to make a difference by supporting higher education. in the past six years alone,the foundation has awarded over $300,000 in college…
Part III, Q1 To Further awareness of jobs, education and training.
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
Scholarships to high school/college students pursuing a career in education
The trade school at Shasta Builders' Exchange was created as a non-profit with the purpose of providing northern California with the knowledge, skills, and techniques necessary to competently and competitively, perform in the construction…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Coast Builders Exchange Community Fund and the most unlike its peers is Marin Builders Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 42 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 NORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN BUILDERS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds Education Foundation of Cotati & Rohnert Park ↗
- Who funds RINCON VALLEY UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT FDN ↗
- Who funds THE HEALDSBURG 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.
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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 Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County 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.