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Explore Butte County
The mission of EXPLORE BUTTE COUNTY is to strategically market the region with the goal of promoting tourism in the county and increasing overnight stays.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k3 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION | $12,000 |
| UPSTATE COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION | $9,750 |
| CHICO ECONOMIC PLANNING | $4,000 |
| PARADISE CHAMBER | $2,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 100% of those 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.
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.
Economic development of rural Oregon towns
Community and Business support to encourage economic progress and support business growth.
The greater redding chamber of commerce is an association of businesses organized to improve the business climate and contribute to the economic health of its membership and the greater redding area.
Economic development for the west central mountain idaho region
To promote business expansion in the alto area that builds a stronger, more diversified economy and increases the economic vitality and wealth of the community.
Promotion of city & surrounding area
The purpose is to promote a healthy business environment in the city of Vallejo.
The promotioin of the overall economic development of the city of eagle lake and surroundiing areas assist tourism promote the interest of trade agriculture industry and civic improvement
To assist the local business, governmental and individual community in developing better business relationships and to increase the local revenue base by encouraging tourism and business development.
Promote the economic and cultural welfare of arcola, illinois
The mission of the santa barbara south coast chamber of commerce is to create a strong local economy, promote the community, provide business resources and networking opportunities and represent business to the government.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Chico Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is Ability First Sports. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 11 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 DOWNTOWN CHICO BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds OROVILLE DOWNTOWN BUSINESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PARADISE & ALLIED COMMUNITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds UPSTATE COMMUNITY ENHANCEMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FEATHER RIVER CENTER ↗
- Who funds ABILITY FIRST SPORTS ↗
- Who funds CHICO CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds ALTACAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Chico Economic Planning Corporation ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF OROVILLE SUNRISE ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: North Valley Community 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 Explore Butte County 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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Find your warmest path to Explore Butte County 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.