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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.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
89
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$424k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$15MEducation$1.2MYouth Development$961kArts & Culture$567kHousing & Shelter$548kAnimals$452kEnvironment$451kHealth$400kOther$0
02FY2024 · 89 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 89 grants below total $2,386,156, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,471,156 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $85,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $208k
  • $10k–50k53 grants · $934k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $820k
  • $250k+1 grant · $424k
$10,494
Median grant
4
States reached
$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%A Touch of Understanding Inc: $10k → 6%San Juan Island Family Resour: $10k → 10%Tahoe Youth & Family Services: $135k → 8%Tahoe Youth & Family Services: $28k → 8%Vista Rise Collective: $19k → 8%Tahoe Youth & Family Services: $10k → 8%Gilmore Hero Foundation: $10k → 8%Housing El Dorado: $194k → 8%Housing El Dorado: $161k → 8%Housing El Dorado: $155k → 8%New Morning Youth and Family: $136k → 8%New Morning Youth and Family: $38k → 8%New Morning Youth and Family: $22k → 8%MORE Mother Lode Rehabilitat: $12k → 8%Sheriffs Posse of El Dorado C: $11k → 8%Kids Helping Kids Sacramento: $12k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19M · 46 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +17% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

46
58

Total granted

$19M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

48%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $782k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthArts & CultureFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HE
    Housing El Dorado
    3× · 2022–2024 · $511k · revenue +161% · 97% of their budget
  • FB
    Food Bank of El Dorado County
    3× · 2022–2024 · $227k · revenue +30%
  • NM
    NEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES
    3× · 2022–2024 · $196k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $257k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $134k
  • TA
    Tahoe Area Mountain Biking Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +31%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
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
2
Tahoe Youth Sports Development
Recreation & Sports
3
El Dorado County Humane Society

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

Animals
4
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
5
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
6
Jobs Shelters of the Sierra

Provide relief for the unhoused residents of El Dorado County

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7
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
8
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment
9
Lake Tahoe South Shore Chamber of Commerce

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.

—
10
Foothill Dog Rescue of the Sierras

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…

Animals
11
Sierra Nevada Teen Ranch

The Mission of the SNTR is to Operate a ranch for at risk kids.

Religion
12
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Morning Youth and Family Services; 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.
04the grantee network

76 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. 76 of the 157 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/76
Grantees still filing
48/76
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Various: $13,654,366 · OtherVariousVarious - 5K: $1,042,873 · OtherVarious - 5K+115 more: $3,863,279 · Other+115 moreHousing El Dorado: $510,540 · Human ServicesNEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $196,011 · Human ServicesTahoe Youth and Family Services: $172,895 · Human Services+9 more: $126,841 · Human ServicesFolsom Symphony Inc: $450,610 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $34,150 · Arts & CultureThe Sierra Fund: $236,000 · EnvironmentSouth County Alliance: $36,000 · EnvironmentGOLD DISCOVERY PARK ASSOCIATION: $35,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE: $29,974 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY: $27,224 · EnvironmentEL DORADO COUNTY AG IN THE CLASSROOM: $194,111 · EducationSIMPSON UNIVERSITY: $75,000 · EducationCEDAR SPRINGS WALDORF SCHOOL INC: $30,000 · Education+6 more: $48,426 · EducationFood Bank of El Dorado County: $227,457 · Food & NutritionUPPER ROOM DINING HALL INC: $61,537 · Food & Nutrition+2 more: $16,000 · Food & NutritionYOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $187,226 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL DORADO COUNTY WESTERN SLOPE: $58,631 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN SIERRA: $16,079 · Youth DevelopmentSIERRA SHARKS SWIM TEAM: $9,840 · Youth DevelopmentGATEWAY MOUNTAIN CENTER INC: $9,775 · Youth Development+1 more: $7,000 · Youth Development
Other$18,560,518Human Services$1,006,287Arts & Culture$484,760Environment$364,198Education$347,537Food & Nutrition$304,994Youth Development$288,551

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHousing El Dorado: $510,540 over 3y, 97% of budgetFolsom Symphony Inc: $450,610 over 3y, 73% of budgetThe Sierra Fund: $236,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetFood Bank of El Dorado County: $227,457 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetNEW MORNING YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES: $196,011 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetEL DORADO COUNTY AG IN THE CLASSROOM: $194,111 over 3y, 64% of budgetYOUTH MAKING A DIFFERENCE: $187,226 over 3y, 10.0% of budgetTahoe Youth and Family Services: $172,895 over 3y, 12% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Lake Tahoe: $119,266 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCASA EL DORADO: $109,429 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetTahoe Area Mountain Biking Association: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $75,759 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIMPSON UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetARTS & CULTURE EL DORADO: $69,599 over 3y, 10% of budgetUPPER ROOM DINING HALL INC: $61,537 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetGREATER CALIFORNIA GERMAN SHEPHERD RESCUE INC: $60,243 over 3y, 21% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF EL DORADO COUNTY WESTERN SLOPE: $58,631 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetAssistance League of Sierra Foothills: $56,000 over 2y, 24% of budgetEL DORADO COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION: $52,217 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetGOLD DISCOVERY PARK ASSOCIATION: $35,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetLake Tahoe Wildlife Care Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCLEAN UP THE CAYES dba CLEAN UP THE LAKE: $29,974 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetAMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY: $27,224 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetANIMAL OUTREACH OF THE MOTHER LODE: $23,582 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTH TAHOE VIKINGS BOOSTER CLUB: $23,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetASPIREKIDS: $22,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetEncompass Youth: $21,741 over 2y, 21% of budgetMother Teresa Maternity Home Inc: $21,700 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetMARSHALL FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH: $21,515 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTAHOE COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $21,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVISTA RISE COLLECTIVE: $19,100 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBarton Memorial Hospital Foundation: $18,976 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMarcella Foundation: $16,275 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NORTHERN SIERRA: $16,079 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSAVE THE GRAVES INC: $15,700 over 2y, 19% of budgetLake Tahoe Historical Society: $15,403 over 1y, 31% of budgetKids Helping Kids Sacramento: $12,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetMother Lode Rehabilitation Enterprises Inc: $11,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHEARTS LANDING RANCH: $11,150 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTHE SHERIFFS POSSE OF EL DORADO COUNTY: $11,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budget3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $10,494 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTAHOE MAGIC INC: $10,426 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetEL DORADO POST 119 AMERICAN LEGION: $10,123 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetSWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF SKI RUN: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetSOS OUTREACH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 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 ↗

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.

Sacramento Region Com…Tahoe Community Found…Barton Healthcare Sys…Lake Tahoe Kiwanis Cl…Pipkin Charitable Fou…Lake Tahoe Visitors A…Tahoe FundTruettner Family Foun…Freda B Runyon Founda…Tahoe Truckee Communi…Sierra Health Foundat…Teichert Foundation
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA42.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization El Dorado Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from El Dorado Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    26report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to El Dorado Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to El Dorado Community Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 157 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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