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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
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01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2025 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $100,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $200,890 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $100,890 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Lita Love is the Answer: $25k → 8%NEWS-Domestic Violence & Sexual Abuse Services: $5k → 9%Community Action Napa Valley: $5k → 9%St Vincent de Paul: $5k → 9%Whistlestop: $5k → 8%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 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
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
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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4
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
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
Marina Counseling Center

To provide high-quality, heart-centered, affordable, and accessible psychotherapy to our diverse San Francisco/Bay Area communities. The MCC offers excellent training and supervision for the next generation of mental health professionals.

Health
9
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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10
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
11
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
12
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adopt a Family of Marin; 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.
04the grantee network

35 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. 35 of the 37 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.

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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 first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 ServicesNEWS: $5,000 · Human ServicesVivalon: $5,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY: $5,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA: $5,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $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 & SportsEnriching Lives Through Music: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMARIN PERFORMING STARS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA ROSA SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$345,000Health$200,000International$138,581Human Services$50,000Education$25,000Recreation & Sports$15,000Arts & Culture$15,000

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

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
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.

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 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

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 Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's 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
    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 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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