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El Dorado Community Foundation
The El Dorado Community Foundation is dedicated to strengthening our community both now and for future generations. The Foundation fulfills its mission by:- Encouraging private giving for the public good.- Building and maintaining a permanent endowment fund to respond to changing community needs.- providing a flexible tax-exempt vehicle…
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 89
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,494
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $424,139
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 65
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $35M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations El Dorado Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $658k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 88 | $2.4M | 57% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $2.2M | 60% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $2.8M | 100% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $3.5M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $6.6M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $1.3M | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $954k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Housing El Dorado | $510,540 | 3 | 97% |
| Folsom Symphony Inc | $450,610 | 3 | 73% |
| Food Bank of El Dorado County | $227,457 | 3 | 7% |
| New Morning Youth and Family Services | $196,011 | 3 | 7% |
| El Dorado County Ag in the Classroom | $194,111 | 3 | 64% |
| Youth Making a Difference | $187,226 | 3 | 10% |
| Tahoe Youth and Family Services | $172,895 | 3 | 12% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe | $119,266 | 3 | 2% |
| Lake Tahoe Unified School Dis | $110,843 | 3 | n/a |
| Casa El Dorado | $109,429 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 89 grantees
Plus 65 recipients with no EIN on record ($17M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
El Dorado Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 69 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Barton Healthcare System · Lake Tahoe Kiwanis Club Foundation · Pipkin Charitable Foundation · Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority Inc · Tahoe Fund · Truettner Family Foundation · Freda B Runyon Foundation · Tahoe Truckee Community Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Teichert Foundation
How this is measured
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About El Dorado Community Foundation
- How much does El Dorado Community Foundation give?
- El Dorado Community Foundation reported 89 itemized grants totaling $2,386,156, out of $2,471,156 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 65 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does El Dorado Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (72%), Education (6%), Youth Development (5%).
- Who are El Dorado Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Housing El Dorado ($511k), Folsom Symphony Inc ($451k), Food Bank of El Dorado County ($227k).
- Does El Dorado Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as El Dorado Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Tahoe Community Foundation, Barton Healthcare System.
- Where is El Dorado Community Foundation based?
- El Dorado Community Foundation is based in CA.
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