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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 FY2025(still arriving)
2
Itemized grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
100%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Itemized, FY2025
$100k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025
$75,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$75,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 14
FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$6.4M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $259k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalEducationRecreation & SportsOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving2$100k50%
FY20243$259k100%
FY20232$245k100%
FY20221$30k100%
FY202114$75k100%
FY20206$30k100%
FY201910$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$230kHealth$190kEducation$185kInternational$134kHousing & Shelter$20kHuman Services$10kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kAnimals$5kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 36 grantees
All grantees of Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation$175,00020%
Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter$133,5811n/a
Okizu Foundation$30,00011%
Lita Love Is the Answer$25,0001n/a
Adopt a Family of Marin$25,00012%
Prison University Project Inc Dba Mount Tamalpais College$20,00011%
American Canyon Community & Parks Foundation$10,00014%
Enriching Lives Through Music$5,00011%
Community of Concern Inc$5,000113%
Marin Community Clinic$5,00010%
Marin Performing Stars$5,00011%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$5,00010%
Biotech Partners$5,00011%
Friends of China Camp Inc$5,00010%
News$5,00010%
Community Land Trust Association of West Marin$5,00011%
San Geronimo Valley Community Center$5,00010%
Autistry Studios Incorporated$5,00010%
Halleck Creek Ranch$5,00011%
Napa Valley Cando$5,00016%
Demeo Teen Club Inc$5,00011%
Vivalon$5,00010%
St Vincent de Paul Society District Council of Marin County$5,0001n/a
Community Resources for Children$5,00010%
Napa Valley Community Housing$5,00010%
Crosswalk Community Church$5,0001n/a
North Marin Community Services$5,00010%
Solano-Napa Habitat for Humanity Inc$5,00010%
Homeward Bound of Marin$5,00010%
Santa Rosa Symphony Association$5,00010%
Marin County Sheriffs Dept Search & Rescue Unit$5,00012%
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa$5,00010%
Community Action of Napa Valley$5,00010%
To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation$5,00011%
Humane Society of Sonoma County$5,00010%
Pathways to Peace$5,0001n/a

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($225k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetEnriching Lives Through Music: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCommunity of Concern Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetMarin Community Clinic: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarin Performing Stars: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBiotech Partners: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of China Camp Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNews: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Land Trust Association of West Marin: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSan Geronimo Valley Community Center: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAutistry Studios Incorporated: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHalleck Creek Ranch: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNapa Valley Cando: $5,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetDemeo Teen Club Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVivalon: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Resources for Children: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNapa Valley Community Housing: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorth Marin Community Services: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSolano-Napa Habitat for Humanity Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHomeward Bound of Marin: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSanta Rosa Symphony Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarin County Sheriffs Dept Search & Rescue Unit: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCatholic Charities of the Diocese of Santa Rosa: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Action of Napa Valley: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTo Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHumane Society of Sonoma County: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 31.

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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.

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

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.

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About Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership

How much does Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership give?
Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership reported 2 itemized grants totaling $100,000, out of $200,890 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 14 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership fund?
By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (29%), Health (24%), Education (23%).
Who are Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: California Pacific Medical Center Foundation ($175k), Physicians for Social Responsibility - San Francisco Bay Area Chapter ($134k), Okizu Foundation ($30k).
Does Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation, Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation.
Where is Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership based?
Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership is based in CA.

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 37 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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