How much did FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO’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

2019

essentialstrainingbecome self-sufficientself-sufficient educationeducation connectednessconnectedness unconditionalhealing

2020

essentialsplacerdoingfeedingbankswellnessbecome self-sufficient

2023

distributeorovillesubstance abusecolusachicopovertyspiritual

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

03FY2023 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k12 grants · $64k
$10k–50k12 grants · $315k
$50k–250k17 grants · $1.2M

$41,600

Median grant

States reached

$41M

Total assets

Largest grants

FATHER'S HOUSE MOUNT OF OLIVES$151,000
NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK$116,054
JORDON CROSSING MINISTRIES$76,303
ARC OF BUTTE COUNTY$72,040
NEW LIFE ASSEMBLY$70,000
POOR AND HOMELESS TEHAMA$69,358
FIRST BAPTIST OF VALLEJO$65,000
FORT JONES COM FOOD PANTRYSVEP$64,185
ST ANNE CONFERENCE$61,544
BAY AREA RESCUE MISSION$60,427
MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER$60,000
REFUGE FOOD PANTRY$55,000
FOOD IS FREE SOLANO$55,000
SUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATION$55,000
ANCHOR OF LIFE CHURCH$54,750

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $537k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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 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.

Central California Food Bank

Distribute food to the hungry in fresno, madera, tulare, kern and kings county.

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano

Leading the fight to end hunger, in partnership with our cmty. and in svcs. of our neighbors in need.

Food & Nutrition

The Samaritan Center-Simi Valley

The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.

Housing & Shelter

Contra Costa Crisis Center

The Contra Costa Crisis Center's mission is to keep people in Contra Costa County, California alive and safe, help them through crises, and connect them with culturally relevant resources in the community.

Health

Community Housing Sonoma County

Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.

Housing & Shelter

Homes for California

Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…

Housing & Shelter

Foodlink for Tulare County Inc

FoodLink is committed to ending hunger by providing healthy food and nutrition education to those in need through community involvement.

Food & Nutrition

South County Community Services

To alleviate hunger and homelessness in south santa clara county by providing food, housing and employment related services, and advocating for system changes to improve the quality of life for the most vulnerable people in the communities…

Food & Nutrition

Sunrise Christian Food Ministry

Provide emergency free food to the needy, sick, and homeless people in Sacramento County.

Food & Nutrition

San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin county.

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Community Food Bank of San Benito County

The organization distributes surplus, purchased, and donated food to households facing poverty.

Education

Community Action Agency of Butte County

The amelioration of poverty and its symptoms among the residents of Butte County.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of El Dorado County and the most unlike its peers is Vistability. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

3%6/210

the rest of the field

12%

1,014/8,786

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

96 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)

91/96

Grantees still filing

74/96

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$1,605,987Human Services$537,482Food & Nutrition$221,331Religion$76,303Housing & Shelter$69,358Education$17,807Philanthropy$4,500

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.

White Pony ExpressCA53.9× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: White Pony Express · Solano Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Foundation For · United Way of the Bay Area · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Calfoods Logistics · Alameda County Community Food Bank · Tipping Point Community · Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services · John Muirmt Diablo Community

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 FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO 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.

2025

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%

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. 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.

04Through 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: NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~3 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 10.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 842909120 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 NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK, 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 3 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
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 Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano?

Find your warmest path to Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano 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.

FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO

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?

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano?

More from the funding graph

FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO

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?

96 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano?

More from the funding graph