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Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership

Since 1964, the national award-winning CVNL has advanced nonprofits and volunteerism by strengthening leadership, encouraging innovation and empowering individuals in service to their communities.

$201k
Granted FY2025still arriving
2
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0162% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.

Health$200kInternational$139kHuman Services$50kEducation$25kRecreation & Sports$15kHousing & Shelter$15kArts & Culture$15kYouth Development$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kOther$315k
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 2 grants below total $100,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $200,890 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $100,890 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$75,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation$75,000
Lita Love is the Answer$25,000
02The need
03

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:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEWS-Domestic Violence & Sexual Abuse Services: $5k → 9%Lita Love is the Answer: $25k → 8%St Vincent de Paul: $5k → 9%Community Action Napa Valley: $5k → 9%Whistlestop: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your 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.

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Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
2
Marin Ventures

The mission of Marin Ventures is to serve adults with developmental disabilities by fostering independence, personal growth, and promoting the opportunity for community integration based upon individual need.Marin Ventures is an Adult…

Human Services
3
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
4
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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5
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
6
Homes for California Dba Homes for Sonoma

Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…

Housing & Shelter
7
Council on Aging Services for Seniors

To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.

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8
Senior Access

Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.

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9
Center for Domestic Peace

We are Marin's champion in the movement to end domestic violence - working at the intersection of survivors, systems, and community.

Human Services
10
Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights
11
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
12
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adopt a Family of Marin and the most unlike its peers is Pathways to Peace. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent & Alternative S…Youth & Community Support S…Children's Performing Arts …Community Preschool ProgramsCommunity Health CentersFamily & Youth Support Serv…Affordable Housing Developm…Environmental Conservation …Wine Industry Promotion & E…Low-Income Housing Providers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr21%27%20–35yr15%42%35–55yr12%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%24%<5yr13%0%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr21%19%20–35yr15%47%35–55yr12%3%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%1/36
the rest of the field
10%
608/5,829

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
26/35
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

San Francisco Debutante Ball — $225,000 · OtherSan Francisco Debutante BallOKIZU FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherOKIZU FOUNDATIONADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN — $25,000 · OtherADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN+13 more — $65,000 · Other+13 moreCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $175,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL C…+5 more — $25,000 · Health+5 morePhysicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter — $133,581 · InternationalPhysicians for Soci…Pathways to Peace — $5,000 · InternationalLITA LOVE IS THE ANSWER — $25,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA — $5,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY — $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY — $5,000 · Human ServicesVivalon — $5,000 · Human ServicesNEWS — $5,000 · Human ServicesPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE — $20,000 · EducationBiotech Partners — $5,000 · EducationAMERICAN CANYON COMMUNITY & PARKS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Recreation & SportsHALLECK CREEK RANCH — $5,000 · Recreation & SportsHomeward Bound of Marin — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCOMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSolano-Napa Habitat for Humanity Inc — $5,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$345,000Health$200,000International$138,581Human Services$50,000Education$25,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Housing & Shelter$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetPRISON UNIVERSITY PROJECT INC DBA MOUNT TAMALPAIS COLLEGE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN CANYON COMMUNITY & PARKS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY OF CONCERN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMARIN PERFORMING STARS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHALLECK CREEK RANCH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTO CELEBRATE LIFE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDemeo Teen Club Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBiotech Partners — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY LAND TRUST ASSOCIATION OF WEST MARIN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Resources for Children — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolano-Napa Habitat for Humanity Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY HOUSING — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVivalon — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Marin Community Services — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Geronimo Valley Community Center — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEnriching Lives Through Music — $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN COUNTY SHERIFFS DEPT SEARCH & RESCUE UNIT — $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNEWS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNAPA VALLEY CANDO — $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetFriends of China Camp Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY OF SONOMA COUNTY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISTRY STUDIOS INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budget
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.

Marin Community Found…McNabb FoundationLeonard & Beryl Buck …The San Francisco Fou…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Hobsonlucas Family Fo…Jewish Community Fede…Bothin FoundationHeffernan Group Found…The Fred Gellert Fami…ExtrafoodUnited Way of the Bay…
Marin Community FoundationCA40.6× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Bothin Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · The Fred Gellert Family Foundation · Extrafood · United Way of the Bay Area

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 Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 37 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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