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Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County

Innovating the education-to-career experience to strengthen economic development and student success.

$869k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$321k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.7MCommunity Improvement$747kEmployment$87kHuman Services$61kScience & Tech$42kArts & Culture$20kEnvironment$20kSocial Science$6k
02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $9k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $144k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $378k
  • $250k+1 grant · $321k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Marin Builders Association: $55k → 8%Santa Rosa City Schools: $321k → 9%10000 Degrees: $25k → 8%SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE: $142k → 9%Marin Builders Association: $23k → 8%Santa Rosa City Schools: $115k → 9%Marin Builders Association: $23k → 8%SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE: $109k → 9%Petaluma City Schools: $191k → 8%Santa Rosa City Schools: $100k → 9%PETALUMA HIGH SCHOOL: $58k → 8%SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE: $45k → 9%PETALUMA HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 8%Santa Rosa City Schools: $40k → 9%PETALUMA HIGH SCHOOL: $20k → 8%Sonoma State University: $35k → 9%Technology High School: $29k → 9%Cotati-Rohnert Park Unified School District: $22k → 9%West Sonoma County Union High School District: $100k → 9%West Sonoma County HS Dist: $50k → 9%Windsor High School: $22k → 9%West County High School Distr: $21k → 9%SONOMA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $60k → 9%SONOMA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $48k → 9%Archbishop Hanna High School: $40k → 9%SONOMA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $40k → 9%SONOMA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $22k → 9%Hanna Boys Center High School: $22k → 9%Hanna Boys Center High School: $22k → 9%Archbishop Hanna High School: $22k → 9%HEALDSBURG HIGH SCHOOL: $60k → 9%Healdsburg Unified School Dis: $42k → 9%Cloverdale High School: $80k → 9%Cloverdale High School: $74k → 9%Cloverdale High School: $71k → 9%Cloverdale High School: $63k → 9%Cloverdale High School: $40k → 9%Cloverdale High School: $27k → 9%North Coast Builders Exchange: $297k → 9%North Coast Builders Exchange: $185k → 9%North Coast Builders Exchange: $150k → 9%NCBE Community Fund: $87k → 9%Other various organizations: $51k → 9%Geyserville New Tech Academy: $50k → 9%Geyserville Unified School Di: $22k → 9%Sonoma County Office of Education: $24k → 9%SONOMA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUC: $23k → 9%Casa Grande High School: $50k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 19 repeat orgs$819k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +104% since the first grant, against +74% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
15

Total granted

$2.8M
$344k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+104%
+74%

Still filing today

11%
7%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $475k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NC
    NORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $632k · revenue +104%
  • SR
    SANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOLS
    4× · 2017–2024 · $576k
  • CH
    Cloverdale High School
    5× · 2017–2021 · $328k

Funded once

  • WS
    West Sonoma County HS Dist
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • GN
    Geyserville New Tech Academy
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • HU
    Healdsburg Unified School Dis
    one grant, 2018 · $42k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Bridge California

Education

Education
2
Construction Industry Educational Foundation

Develops construction, design, and trade professionals through educational endeavors, mentoring initiatives, and training activities.

Education
3
North County Trade Tech High School

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.

Education
4
Turlock Education Opportunity Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
5
Ross Valley Charter School

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,…

Education
6
San Francisco High School of the Arts

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…

Education
7
Cabrillo Education Foundation

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…

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8
Contra Costa Board of Realtors Scholarship Foundation

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…

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9
Building and Protecting Californias Future

Part III, Q1 To Further awareness of jobs, education and training.

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10
Terra Marin School

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…

Education
11
East Bay Division Scholarship Fndn California Retired Teachers Assoc

Scholarships to high school/college students pursuing a career in education

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12
The Trade School at Sbe Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Coast Builders Exchange Community Fund; 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.
04the grantee network

8 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. 8 of the 42 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE INC: $632,000 · OtherNORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE INCSANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOLS: $576,004 · OtherSANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOLSCloverdale High School: $328,464 · OtherCloverdale High SchoolSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE: $296,145 · OtherSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGEPetaluma City Schools: $190,749 · OtherPetaluma City SchoolsSONOMA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL: $188,955 · OtherSONOMA VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL+30 more: $1,278,911 · Other+30 moreNORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE COMMUNITY FUND: $87,030 · Education10000 DEGREES: $25,000 · EducationEducation Foundation of Cotati & Rohnert Park: $22,000 · EducationRINCON VALLEY UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT FDN: $14,000 · EducationTHE HEALDSBURG SCHOOL: $11,960 · EducationCREDO HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · Education
Other$3,491,228Education$169,990

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE INC: $632,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetMARIN BUILDERS ASSOCIATION: $100,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetNORTH COAST BUILDERS EXCHANGE COMMUNITY FUND: $87,030 over 1y, 21% of budget10000 DEGREES: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEducation Foundation of Cotati & Rohnert Park: $22,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetRINCON VALLEY UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT FDN: $14,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE HEALDSBURG SCHOOL: $11,960 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCREDO HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Sonoma County Communi…Fidelity Investments …
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Career Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 42 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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