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Flocco Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$105k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$172kHuman Services$80kFood & Nutrition$64kEducation$47kRecreation & Sports$7kCivil Rights$3kScience & Tech$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$3kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $98k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SONOMA ECOLOGY CENTER$35,035
REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK$17,500
LA LUZ CENTER$15,000
SONOMA LAND TRUST$10,000
SONOMA ECOLOGY CENTER$10,000
TRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST$10,000
SONOMA ACADEMY$5,500
SONOMA COUNTY REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION$1,000
TRUCKEE TRAILS FOUNDATION$500
TRUCKEE DIRT UNION$500
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $1k → 17%LA LUZ CENTER: $20k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $15k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $5k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $5k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING: $5k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $5k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING: $3k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $3k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING: $3k → 9%LA LUZ BILINGUAL CENTER: $3k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING: $3k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $3k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING: $3k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING: $2k → 9%FRIENDS IN SONOMA HELPING: $1k → 9%VINTAGE HOUSE SR MULTI-PURPOSE CTR SONOMA VALLEY: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

NY
MA
PA
CA
MO
DE
DC
TX

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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$371k · 19 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
19

Total granted

$371k
$13k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+66%

Still filing today

95%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationHealthInternationalAnimalsOther

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

  • SE
    Sonoma Ecology Center
    8× · 2017–2025 · $143k · revenue +180%
  • RE
    REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK
    5× · 2019–2025 · $63k · revenue +80%
  • LL
    LA LUZ CENTER
    7× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +455%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +139%
  • EARTHJUSTICEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +66%

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.

1
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
2
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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3
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
4
Valle Del Sol Inc

Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.

Health
5
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
6
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
7
California Farmland Trust

The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.

Environment
8
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
9
Sonoma Charter School

Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.

Education
10
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
11
Green Foothills Foundation dba Green Foothills

Our mission is to protect local nature and farmland to ensure a healthy environment for everyone.

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12
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma Land Trust and the most unlike its peers is Lamancha. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyLand Conservation Organizat…Youth Development CentersCommunity Health CentersPublic Library SupportVeteran Support ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Animal Rescue and AdoptionGovernment Accountability R…Senior Support ServicesIndependent K-8 SchoolsEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…Food Pantries & AssistanceLegal Aid & Immigration Ser…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr15%6%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%24%35–55yr13%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%2%10–20yr17%62%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr13%3%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/35
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,943

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.

04the grantee network

34 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. 34 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
26/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Sonoma Ecology Center — $142,535 · EnvironmentSonoma Ecology CenterSONOMA LAND TRUST — $13,500 · EnvironmentSONOMA LAND TRUSTTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $11,000 · EnvironmentTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST+4 more — $5,300 · EnvironmentLA LUZ CENTER — $57,500 · Human ServicesLA LUZ CENTERFriends In Sonoma Helping Inc — $18,500 · Human ServicesFriends In Sonoma Help…+2 more — $2,000 · Human ServicesREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $62,500 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EMPIRE FOO…+1 more — $1,100 · Food & NutritionTHE PRESENTATION SCHOOL — $22,500 · EducationTHE PRESENTAT…SONOMA ACADEMY — $20,400 · EducationSONOMA ACADEM…CRESCENT MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $1,500 · Education+1 more — $200 · EducationVINTAGE HOUSE SENIOR MULTI- PURPOSE CENTER OF SONO — $3,000 · OtherAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $3,000 · OtherCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $2,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY — $2,000 · OtherSonoma Valley Education Foundation — $2,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $1,000 · OtherINDIVISIBLE CIVICS — $1,000 · Other+12 more — $2,750 · OtherSonoma County Regional Parks Foundation — $6,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $3,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $200 · International
Environment$172,335Human Services$78,000Food & Nutrition$63,600Education$44,600Other$17,250Recreation & Sports$6,000International$3,200

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSonoma Ecology Center — $142,535 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $62,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLA LUZ CENTER — $57,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PRESENTATION SCHOOL — $22,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSONOMA ACADEMY — $20,400 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFriends In Sonoma Helping Inc — $18,500 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSONOMA LAND TRUST — $13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRUCKEE DONNER LAND TRUST — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSonoma County Regional Parks Foundation — $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma Valley Education Foundation — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCRESCENT MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL OF PHILADELPHIA FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVintage House Multi Purpose Senior Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINDIVISIBLE CIVICS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTruckee Trails Foundation Inc — $800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTruckee Dirt Union — $500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHARITABLE PHARMACY OF NORTH TEXAS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAMANCHA — $350 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Dallas — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSunday Breakfast Mission — $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR PAWS — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF DELAWARE INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENNETT LIBRARY — $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Marin Community Found…Sonoma County Communi…McNabb FoundationWomen Giving as One I…Sonoma County Vintner…The John & Sandra Lel…Simon Blattner Family…Manitou FundImpactassetsincVera C Hendry Foundat…Sonoma Valley Vintner…Gaia Fund
Marin Community FoundationCA25.8× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Women Giving as One Inc · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · The John & Sandra Leland Foundation · Simon Blattner Family Foundation · Manitou Fund · Impactassetsinc · Vera C Hendry Foundation · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · Gaia Fund

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 Flocco 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 26%
  • Delaware Center for Homeless Veterans Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Delaware Inc — 19% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Flocco Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Flocco 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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