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Dechambeau Creek Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MONO LAKE KUTZADIKA'A CPA | $11,500 |
| SIERRA STEM | $11,000 |
| OIKONOS | $10,000 |
| LEE VINING WOMEN'S LEAGUE | $9,500 |
| JUNE LAKE LITTLE LOOPERS | $9,500 |
| MONO ARTS COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,025 |
| MONO BASIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE INYO | $5,000 |
| EASTERN SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSING | $4,000 |
| MONO LAKE COMMITTEE | $3,000 |
| LEE VINING FIRE PROTECTION DIST | $2,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| MONO CITY FIRE PROTECTION DIST | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- OEOIKONOS - ECOSYSTEM KNOWLEDGE5× · 2020–2024 · $41k · revenue +15%
- MAMONO ARTS COUNCIL4× · 2020–2024 · $18k · revenue +57%
- ESEastern Sierra Community Housing3× · 2022–2024 · $10k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- IIMACAone grant, 2021 · $14k
- ESEASTERN SIERRA INTERPRETIVE ASSOCIAone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TWTHE WILDERNESS LAND TRUSTgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +60%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To plan, steward, interpret, promote, and sustain a system of four-season trails and public access to natural areas in the Mammoth Lakes and Eastern Sierra Nevada region in the state of California while protecting its natural resources.
Provide stewardship conservation of lands agency education and committee membership. Tribal networking within California and Nevada throughout the Great Basin on land and cultural history of the area. Provide education and education…
CSERC protects water, wildlife, and wild places of the Northern Yosemite region.
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
Rebuild tribal lands located in the cental sierra nevada mountains of california and raise awareness of the effect of the native american on the environment
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
To conserve and restore valuable natural resources of Mendocino County Region. Dedicated to providing public access to the coast & protecting working farmlands, forests, wildlife habitat, open space, scenic vistas & watersheds.
To advance the natural history, conservation and ecosystem knowledge of the Tahoe region through science, education and outreach.
The California Wilderness Coalition protects the natural landscapes that make California unique, providing clean air and water, a home to wildlife, and a place for recreation and spiritual renewal.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mammoth Lakes Recreation and the most unlike its peers is Trout Unlimited Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 OIKONOS - ECOSYSTEM KNOWLEDGE ↗
- Who funds MONO ARTS COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SIERRA STEM ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Inyo ↗
- Who funds Eastern Sierra Community Housing ↗
- Who funds MONO BASIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Death Valley Natural History Association ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds MAMMOTH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MAMMOTH LAKES RECREATION ↗
- Who funds THE MONO LAKE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Lorber Foundation · The Mono Lake Foundation · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization Dechambeau Creek Foundation 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.
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 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.
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