How much did El Dorado Community Foundation grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 89% of El Dorado Community Foundation’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

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2019

—

2020

—

2021

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2022

accessmountain bikersyoutheconomicissuebuildbiking

2023

youthvolunteersaddresschildren adultscleanviolence freeeducational

2024

services-basicchildren youthhungerscholarshiphealth wellnesseducationregents santa

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k28 grants · $208k
$10k–50k53 grants · $934k
$50k–250k7 grants · $820k
$250k+1 grant · $424k

$10,494

Median grant

States reached

$35M

Total assets

Largest grants

Folsom Symphony$424,139
Various - 5K$243,474
Housing El Dorado$161,100
El Dorado County Library - So$137,200
Fostering Success and Signifi$94,020
Hands4Hope - Youth Making a D$70,028
Upper Room Dining Hall$61,537
El Dorado County Fair Associa$52,217
Assistance League Sierra Foot$49,500
CASA El Dorado$48,879
El Dorado County Ag in the Cl$46,200
Family Resource Center$45,000
Arts & Culture El Dorado$37,394
South County Alliance$36,000
Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tah$30,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $789k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$24M · 48 repeat orgs$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +103% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$24M

$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+103%

+45%

Still filing today

48%

41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $804k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther

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

TF
The Folsom Symphony
3× · 2022–2024 · $451k · revenue +71% · 73% of their budget
FB
Food Bank of El Dorado County
3× · 2022–2024 · $227k · revenue +18%
ED
El Dorado County Ag in the Cl
3× · 2022–2024 · $194k · revenue +192% · 64% of their budget

Funded once

AA
All About Equine
one grant, 2022 · $257k
CM
CAL Mosquito Fire
one grant, 2022 · $134k
TT
TAMBA Tahoe Area Mountain Bigraduated
one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +167%

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.

Clean Tahoe Program

To improve the visual quality of the Tahoe Basin portion of El Dorado County through community education, citizen involvement and enforcecment of litter and nuisance ordinances.

Environment

Tahoe Community Foundation

Cultivating community philanthropy to enhance and preserve the quality of life at Tahoe.

Education

Sierra Foothill Conservancy

Protect, manage and preserve lands and wildlife having unique natural resources and cultural qualities within and near the foothills of the sierra nevada range.

Environment

El Dorado County Humane Society

Care for shelter animals, provide public with free spay/neuter services, educational outreach.

Animals

Carson-Tahoe Health System

To enhance the health and well-being of the communities we serve.

Health

Valhalla Tahoe

Restoration of the tallac historic site (now included in the national registry of historic sites) cultural and arts programs are housed in several structures on the site.

Arts & Culture

Jobs Shelters of the Sierra

Provide relief for the unhoused residents of El Dorado County

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Mountain High Recovery Center

Mountain High Recovery Center is a substance use treatment facility whose mission is to provide local, quality, and affordable recovery services to individuals and families in the South Lake Tahoe, CA community.

Health

Foothill Dog Rescue of the Sierras

Foothill Dog Rescue is dedicated to re-homing dogs from high-kill shelters and dogs from owners who can no longer care for them.

Animals

Sierra Nevada Teen Ranch

The Mission of the SNTR is to Operate a residential program in a ranch-type setting for at-risk youth.

Religion

Sierra State Parks Foundation

The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with…

Recreation & Sports

Friends of Washoe

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Tahoe Youth and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Loyola Marymount University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 13% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/83

the rest of the field

10%

369/3,649

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

71/71

Grantees still filing

56/71

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$24,246,129Human Services$832,276Arts & Culture$484,760Environment$364,198Education$352,259Food & Nutrition$304,994Youth Development$288,551

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.

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.

Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA43.5× affinity20 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Barton Healthcare System · Tahoe Community Foundation · Lake Tahoe Kiwanis Club Foundation · Tahoe Fund · Lake Tahoe Visitors Authority Inc · Pipkin Charitable Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Freda B Runyon Foundation · Warm Winters · Truettner Family 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 El Dorado Community 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.

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1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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: Housing El Dorado.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~23 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.5× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 460554966 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 Housing El Dorado, 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 23 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 97% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
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 El Dorado Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to El Dorado Community Foundation 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.

El Dorado Community Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to El Dorado Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

El Dorado Community Foundation

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

71 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to El Dorado Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph