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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 FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$28k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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, FY2022 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$73kHuman Services$66kArts & Culture$39kRecreation & Sports$28kHealth$22kHousing & Shelter$12kPhilanthropy$10k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $44,300, the rows itemized in this filing. The $158,300 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $114,000 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$141k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
All Ages Recreation Downtown$28,300
White Pony Express$10,000
Lamorinda Village$6,000
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 (FY22–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Lamorinda Village: $23k → 9%Las Trampas Inc: $7k → 9%Lamorinda Village: $6k → 9%Trinity Center: $12k → 9%White Pony Express: $25k → 9%White Pony Express: $10k → 9%White Pony Express: $10k → 9%Youth Homes Inc: $6k → 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.

41%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$99k · 3 repeat orgs$141k to everyone else

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
10

Total granted

$99k
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • WP
    WHITE PONY EXPRESS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $45k · revenue -16%
  • LV
    LAMORINDA VILLAGE INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $29k · revenue -55%
  • TP
    The Park Theater Trust
    2× · 2022–2023 · $25k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • LS
    Lamorinda Spirit Van Program
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANOgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $18k · revenue +37%
  • MM
    MOBILITY MATTERSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +57%
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
West Contra Costa County Meals On Wheels

Enable frail seniors to maintain their independence at home by providing them with high quality, nutritious meals that are cost effective, prepared in West Contra Costa County, delivered by caring drivers and administered by local…

Food & Nutrition
2
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
3
Torrance-Lomita Meals On Wheels Inc

Provides home delivered meals to the house bound residents of Torrance and Lomita.

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4
Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa

Since 1983, Loaves and Fishes has served over 5 million meals to many thousands of hungry people throughout Contra Costa County.

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5
Bay Area Barns and Trails
Human Services
6
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.

—
7
Meals On Wheels of the Monterey Peninsula Inc

To empower seniors, disabled adults, veterans, and other under served populations to remain independent by nourishing their bodies, minds, and spirits, and drive out hunger and isolation in our region.

Food & Nutrition
8
Tenderloin Tessie Holiday Dinners

Feeding the homeless population of San Francisco

Food & Nutrition
9
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
10
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…

Environment
11
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
12
Meals On Wheels Yolo County

To nourish and engage seniors in Yolo County.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mobility Matters; the most unlike its peers is All Ages Recreation Downtown. 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 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. 12 of the 15 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $45,000 · Human ServicesWHITE PONY EXPRESSLAMORINDA VILLAGE INC: $29,000 · Human ServicesLAMORINDA VILLAGE INCTRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK: $12,000 · Human ServicesTRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEKLas Trampas School Inc: $6,700 · Human ServicesLas Trampas School IncYouth Homes Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesYouth Homes IncLamorinda Spirit Van Program: $25,000 · OtherLamorinda Spirit …LAFAYETTE HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $6,992 · OtherLAFAYETTE HISTORI…HOLY SHEPHERD LUTHERAN CHURCH: $6,000 · OtherHOLY SHEPHERD LUT…The Park Theater Trust: $25,000 · Arts & CultureThe Park Theat…TOWN HALL THEATRE COMPANY INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureTOWN HALL THEA…ALL AGES RECREATION DOWNTOWN: $28,300 · Recreation & SportsALL AGES REC…FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $18,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF…MEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHE…MOBILITY MATTERS: $15,000 · HealthMORAGA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Human Services$98,700Other$37,992Arts & Culture$32,000Recreation & Sports$28,300Food & Nutrition$28,000Health$15,000Philanthropy$10,000

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 budgetWHITE PONY EXPRESS: $45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLAMORINDA VILLAGE INC: $29,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetThe Park Theater Trust: $25,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOBILITY MATTERS: $15,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTRINITY CENTER WALNUT CREEK: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMORAGA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetTOWN HALL THEATRE COMPANY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetLas Trampas School Inc: $6,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Homes Inc: $6,000 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.

Lowell Berry Foundati…Coit Family FoundationJustice Justice Found…Dean and Margaret Les…San Jose Mercury News…Heffernan Group Found…Marin Community Found…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…
Lowell Berry FoundationCA17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Lowell Berry Foundation · Coit Family Foundation · Justice Justice Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Heffernan Group Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 Community Foundation of Lafayette funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Lafayette. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%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 · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to Community Foundation of Lafayette?

    Find your warmest path to Community Foundation of Lafayette through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 15 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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