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Community Foundation of Lafayette
The Community Foundation of Lafayette helps connect generous and dedicated donors with local causes by supporting nonprofits, programs and projects that promote and enhance the civic, cultural, educational and general well-being of Lafayette and surrounding communities.
$158k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
1
Communities
$28k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2022–2024.
Human Services$99kArts & Culture$32kRecreation & Sports$28kFood & Nutrition$28kHealth$15kPhilanthropy$10kOther$38k
02FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
- All Ages Recreation Downtown$28,300
- White Pony Express$10,000
- Lamorinda Village$6,000
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.
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Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
40%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$99k · 3 repeat orgs$151k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +54% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
11
Total granted
$99k
$123k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+64%
+54%
Still filing today
100%
73%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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
- WPWhite Pony Express3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue +161%
- LVLamorinda Village2× · 2022–2024 · $29k · revenue +64%
- PTPark Theater Trust2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue -22%
Funded once
- LSLamorinda Spirit Van Programone grant, 2022 · $25k
- FBFood Bank of CC & Solano Ctysgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +86%
- MMMobility Mattersgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +73%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your 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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Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa
The mission of Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa is to provide community based food programs and partner services that focus on basic needs. We Nourish Lives!
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2
Meals On Wheels Yolo County
To nourish and engage seniors in Yolo County.
Food & Nutrition
3
Contra Costa Crisis Center
The Contra Costa Crisis Center's mission is to keep people in Contra Costa County, California alive and safe, help them through crises, and connect them with culturally relevant resources in the community.
Health
4
Contra Costa Civic Theatre
CCCT is a nonprofit community theater with its permanent home in West Contra Costa County. Our mission is to provide affordable, high-quality entertainment to residents throughout the East Bay and provide training in live performing arts…
Arts & Culture
5
California Housing Partner Corporation
The California Housing Partnership Corporation creates and preserves affordable and sustainable homes for Californians with low incomes by providing expert financial and policy solutions to nonprofit and public partners.
Unclassified
6
Community Housing Sonoma County
Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.
Housing & Shelter
7
Solano-Napa Habitat for Humanity Inc
We bring people together to build decent, affordable homes and make critical repairs to existing homes in our community. Through this partnership, families are empowered by having a safe place to live and thrive.
Housing & Shelter
8
Seamless Bay Area
Seamless Bay Area advocates to transform the Bay Areas fragmented and inconvenient public transit into a world-class, unified, equitable, and widely-used system. [continued on next page]
Public Benefit
9
Contra Costa Senior Legal Services
The mission of CCSLS is to protect the rights of seniors. By providing legal services, the organization is also able to mediate poverty and improve health outcomes for the population it serves. (continued on top of Page 2)
Crime & Legal
10
Lobero Theatre Foundation
The Lobero Theatre Foundation is organized to operate and maintain the historic Lobero Theatre as a performing arts center and cultural asset to the community and to present high quality productions in music, dance and theatre.
Arts & Culture
11
Redwood Coast Seniors Inc
Redwood Coast Seniors Inc. operates a senior center providing meals, transportation, day care, activities and support services that contribute to optimal wellness and healthy aging for all seniors on the Mendocino North Coast.
Human Services
12
Housing Matters
Provide emergency and transitional services to homeless individuals in the county of santa cruz.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano and the most unlike its peers is Moraga Community Foundation. 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
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$98,700Other$37,992Arts & Culture$32,000Recreation & Sports$28,300Food & Nutrition$28,000Health$15,000Philanthropy$10,000
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 White Pony Express ↗
- Who funds Lamorinda Village ↗
- Who funds All Ages Recreation Downtown ↗
- Who funds Park Theater Trust ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of CC & Solano Ctys ↗
- Who funds Mobility Matters ↗
- Who funds Trinity Center ↗
- Who funds Moraga Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Meals on Wheels-Contra Costa ↗
- Who funds Town Hall Theatre ↗
- Who funds Las Trampas Inc ↗
- Who funds Youth Homes Inc ↗
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.
Lowell Berry FoundationCA15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Lowell Berry Foundation · Justice Justice Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 organisation Community Foundation of Lafayette 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Moraga Community Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 474521886 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Moraga Community Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 6% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Community Foundation of Lafayette?
Find your warmest path to Community Foundation of Lafayette through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines