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Greater Sacramento Area Economic Council

A public-private partnership to retain, attract and create sustainable businesses in six counties.

$247k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Human Services$453kScience & Tech$300kPublic Benefit$120kCommunity Improvement$30kYouth Development$24kEnvironment$21kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $237,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $247,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $10,000 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALIFORNIA MOBILITY CENTER$200,000
AGTECH INNOVATION ALLIANCE (AKA AGSTART)$10,000
IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW$10,000
ALL ABOUT SACRAMENTO COMMUNITY FUND$10,000
SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOME$7,000
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 (FY21–25, $453k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE: $376k → 12%GREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE: $50k → 12%GREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE: $20k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS HOME: $7k → 12%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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$906k · 5 repeat orgs$83k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$906k
$56k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesPublic BenefitYouth DevelopmentHealthEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • GS
    GREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE
    3× · 2021–2023 · $446k · revenue +3%
  • FF
    FourthWave Foundation Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +67% · 61% of their budget
  • IY
    IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC
    2× · 2021–2025 · $24k · revenue +501%

Funded once

  • CI
    CALSTART INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $21k · revenue +189%
  • SC
    Safe Credit Union
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +6%
  • CF
    COMMITTEE FOR A BETTER SACRAMENTO
    one grant, 2023 · $10k
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
Valley Vision

Valley vision is a civic leadership organization dedicated to improving the livability of the sacramento region. through research and action, we collaborate on bold, long-term solutions that improve people's lives.

Community Improvement
2
Startupsac

To accelerate Sacramento's startup and innovation ecosystems by informing, educating, empowering, and connecting its startup founders and innovators.

Community Improvement
3
California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce

To advance statewide economic development strategies through public and private partnerships, strong advocacy efforts and by providing resources in our local communities through a network of community-based organizations dedicated to…

Community Improvement
4
All About Sacramento

The specific purpose of this corporation was to sponsor the inauguration and related public community events and forums for mayor-elect darrell steinberg and the new administration to interact with the citizens of sacramento and engage…

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5
California Urban Partnership

The California Urban Partnership's (CUP) mission is to build economic security in communities of color through policy research, education and organizing community action. We advocate for systems changes that increase investments to improve…

Community Improvement
6
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
7
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
8
California Electric Transportation Coalition

To promote cleaner, healthier air through the development and use of zero-emission electric vehicles, hybrid electric vehicles, electric mass transit buses, and rail.

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9
Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento

The mission of the child abuse prevention council of sacramento (capc) is to reduce child abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
10
Connect Foundation

Connect is an innovation instigator established to cultivate san diego's life science and tech communities. a trusted partner for more than 30 years, we propel our region's entrepreneurs as they create and scale their companies from…

Education
11
California Health Collaborative

Improving health and wellness of individuals with limited access to health-care resources and who most often confront barriers related to culture, language, immigration status, income, gender, geography, and/or education.

Health
12
Monterey Bay Dart

Drone, Aviation, and Robotics Technology (DART) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing Uncrewed Aircraft Systems (UAS) and Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) to support quality job growth and community vitality. DART's mission is to…

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Downtown Partnership Inc; the most unlike its peers is FourthWave Foundation Inc. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE: $446,332 · Human ServicesGREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE+2 more: $12,203 · Human ServicesCalifornia Mobility Center: $300,000 · OtherCalifornia Mobility CenterCALSTART INC: $21,050 · OtherCALSTART INC+3 more: $30,000 · Other+3 moreFourthWave Foundation Inc: $120,000 · Public BenefitFourthWave Fo…IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC: $24,250 · Youth DevelopmentBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 · HealthAgTech Innovation Alliance: $10,000 · EducationALL ABOUT SACRAMENTO COMMUNITY FUND: $10,000 · Community Improvement
Human Services$458,535Other$351,050Public Benefit$120,000Youth Development$24,250Health$15,000Education$10,000Community Improvement$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE: $446,332 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetCalifornia Mobility Center: $300,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetFourthWave Foundation Inc: $120,000 over 4y, 61% of budgetIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC: $24,250 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCALSTART INC: $21,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAgTech Innovation Alliance: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSafe Credit Union: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $5,203 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.

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…Fidelity Investments …
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Greater Sacramento Area Economic Council funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Greater Sacramento Area Economic Council. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 13 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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