· Private foundation
Grass Valley Ladies Relief Society
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INTERFAITH FOOD MINISTRY | $4,000 |
| TOYS FOR TOTS | $2,550 |
| GOLD COUNTRY SENIOR SERVICES | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ONE SOURCE EMPOWERING CG | $1,500 |
| INTERFAITH FOOD MINISTRY | $1,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $1,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES OF NEVADA COUNTY | $1,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF NEVADA COUNTY | $750 |
| SIERRA SERVICES FOR THE BLIND | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH | $250 |
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 (FY22–25, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- IFInterfaith Food Ministry Nevada County4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +16%
- BFBRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH4× · 2022–2025 · $5k · revenue +93%
- OSONE SOURCE - EMPOWERING CAREGIVERS2× · 2022–2023 · $3k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- GCGOLD COUNTRY COMM SERV-MEALS ON WHEone grant, 2022 · $3k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2022 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $2k
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.
The mission of Hospitality House is tobring homeless people in Nevada County into a circle of community caring thatoffers shelter, sustenance, medical care, advocacy, opportunity, dignity, and hopeas we assist them in transitioning from…
To serve pets in need in nevada county by providing pet food/supply vouchers, spay and neutering services, and veterinary care.
To lead, collaborate, coordinate, develop, and implement strategies and resources to end homelessness in Nevada and Placer counties.
Child abuse awareness and prevention
The organizations mission is to alleviate food insecurity by providing supplemental food assistance to individuals and families in need. The organization receives monetary contributions used to purchase food and accepts donated food from…
The mission of United Way of Nevada County is to improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community.
Sierra Nevada Children's Services enhances the community by supporting quality childcare and empowering families to aspire to life-long success.
Gold Country Senior Services, Inc provides essential programs that meet the basic needs of seniors living in Western Nevada County. GCSS ensures older adults have nutritional meals, warm homes, social interaction and a greater sense of…
To improve the health and well-being of our community through evidence-based health practices and innovative programs that advance health equity for all.
Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Child Advocates of Nevada County and the most unlike its peers is Neighborhood Center of the Arts. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 35 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 Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Child Advocates of Nevada County ↗
- Who funds SIERRA SERVICES FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ONE SOURCE - EMPOWERING CAREGIVERS ↗
- Who funds Food Bank of Nevada County ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds Nevada County Habitat For Humanity ↗
- Who funds KARE CRISIS NURSERY INC ↗
- Who funds The Norah Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Sierra College Foundation ↗
- Who funds NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Baird Foundation Inc · Teichert Foundation · Dignity Health · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Grass Valley Ladies Relief Society 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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