· Private foundation
Costa Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
57% of Costa Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Stanislaus Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 8 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Costa Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $84k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $721k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STANISLAUS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE MODESTO LIBRARY | $200,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $133,835 |
| MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| STANISLAUS COUNTY POLICE ACITVITIES | $71,857 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $71,853 |
| SOCIETY FOR DISABILITIES | $71,853 |
| WITHOUT PERMISSION | $71,852 |
| COMMUNITY HOSPICE HEALTH SERVICES F | $35,000 |
| MODESTO CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC | $25,000 |
| DEA SURVIVORS BENEFIT FUND | $23,578 |
| CENTRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $6,350 |
| LEARNING QUEST | $5,000 |
| PPO HERITAGE COMMITTEE | $5,000 |
| STANISLAUS SWAT ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $124k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 11% of Costa Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +72% since the first grant, against +5% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $252k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY7× · 2017–2025 · $322k
- MHMEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue 0%
- WPWITHOUT PERMISSION INC4× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +141%
Funded once
- VCVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +59%
- SCSTANISLAUS COUNTY POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $37k · revenue +369%
- SCSTANISLAUS COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATIone grant, 2022 · $37k
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.
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.
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,…
To provide medical education and support to the community of Stanislaus County through promotion of the 4 social determinants of health.
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,…
A general practice medical clinical providing medical services to individuals and families in modesto who do not qualify for any other free government health care programs and have no health insurance and cannot afford to pay for their…
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,…
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,…
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,…
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,…
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,…
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,…
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,…
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,…
How this is measured
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 39 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Stanislaus Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MODESTO LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds WITHOUT PERMISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY FOR DISABILITIES ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STANISLAUS COUNTY POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MODESTO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE OF MODESTO INC ↗
- Who funds ST ANDREWS LEGACY INC ↗
- Who funds PPO HERITAGE COMMITTEE LTD ↗
- Who funds VALLEY RECOVERY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds JULINE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MINDS MATTER NATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Augies Quest to Cure ALS Inc ↗
- Who funds Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Stanislaus Community Foundation · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Stewart Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Costa Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Costa Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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