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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 89 grants below total $2,386,156 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,471,156 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $85,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k28 grants · $208k
- $10k–50k53 grants · $934k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $820k
- $250k+1 grant · $424k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $963k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
46 repeat relationships — 38 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 50 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $782k 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
- HEHousing El Dorado3× · 2022–2024 · $511k · revenue +161% · 97% of their budget
- FBFood Bank of El Dorado County3× · 2022–2024 · $227k · revenue +30%
- NMNEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES3× · 2022–2024 · $196k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $257k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $134k
- TATahoe Area Mountain Biking Associationgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +31%
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 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.
Care for shelter animals, provide public with free spay/neuter services, educational outreach.
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…
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.
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,…
Provide relief for the unhoused residents of El Dorado County
Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
A membership organization dedicated to developing, promoting, and serving your business and community. Our goal is to sustain a high quality of life by achieving economic vitality, with sensitivity and respect for the environment.
The Mission of the SNTR is to Operate a ranch for at risk kids.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Morning Youth and Family Services and the most unlike its peers is Gilmore Hero Foundation. 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 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 15% of your grantees by number, and just 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
76 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. 76 of the 157 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 Housing El Dorado ↗
- Who funds Folsom Symphony Inc ↗
- Who funds The Sierra Fund ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of El Dorado County ↗
- Who funds NEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds EL DORADO COUNTY AG IN THE CLASSROOM ↗
- Who funds YOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE ↗
- Who funds Tahoe Youth and Family Services ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe ↗
- Who funds CASA EL DORADO ↗
- Who funds Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Association ↗
- Who funds DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ARTS & CULTURE EL DORADO ↗
- Who funds UPPER ROOM DINING HALL INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER CALIFORNIA GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL DORADO COUNTY WESTERN SLOPE ↗
- Who funds Assistance League of Sierra Foothills ↗
- Who funds EL DORADO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds South County Alliance ↗
- Who funds GOLD DISCOVERY PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
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: 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
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 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.
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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