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Guild Giving Foundation

Opening doors to new opportunities for the communities in which we serve by supporting financial literacy and delivering on our commitment to provide shelter.

$970k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$566k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$757kCommunity Improvement$608kHuman Services$485kEmployment$394kCrime & Legal$310kHealth$191kEducation$164kFood & Nutrition$71kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $833,029, the rows itemized in this filing. The $969,907 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $136,878 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 · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $17k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
  • $250k+1 grant · $566k
$100,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$596k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY VENTURES CORP INC$566,209
URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY$100,000
HOME START INC$100,000
MBA OPEN DOORS FOUNDATION$50,000
VALLEY HOUSING COALITIONINC$16,820
02The need
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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 (FY19–22, $122k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 63% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ABILITY 360: $10k → 11%IDAHO YOUTH RANCH: $12k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $6k → 18%MATT TALBOT CENTER: $27k → 9%LIBERTY ROAD FOUNDATION: $6k → 9%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $27k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $25k → 12%RAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $9k → 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.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
ID
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OR
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CA
UT
KY
AZ
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DC
HI
TX
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Guild Giving Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 40% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 46%.

Guild Giving Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

46%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 10 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +110% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

10 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
44

Total granted

$1.4M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+110%
+35%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $633k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationHousing & ShelterCommunity 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

  • HS
    HOME START INC
    5× · 2018–2024 · $510k · revenue +110%
  • UC
    URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY
    4× · 2017–2024 · $368k · revenue +71%
  • MS
    MONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT
    3× · 2017–2019 · $268k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue -30%
  • UC
    URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY CHARTERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +64%
  • TA
    Third Avenue Charitable Organization
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -54%
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
Feeding San Diego

On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…

Food & Nutrition
2
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
3
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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4
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
5
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
6
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition
7
Community Food Bank of San Benito County

Our mission is to provide food, nutritional education, and advocacy for those in need within san benito county, while pursuing our ultimate vision that no resident will suffer from hunger or malnutrition in san benito county.

Education
8
Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc

In collaboration with our partners, we provide dignified, equitable and consistent access to nutritious food, creating a foundation for community health.

Food & Nutrition
9
Food in Need of Distribution Inc

Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.

Food & Nutrition
10
Central Pennsylvania Food Bank

Our mission is to solve hunger in central pennsylvania by ensuring that everyone struggling with hunger has access to enough wholesome food every day. we will achieve this bold goal with the help of our generous donors, volunteers and…

Food & Nutrition
11
The Food Bank for Larimer County

To provide food to all in need through community partnerships and hunger relief programs. Our vision is a hunger-free Larimer County.

Food & Nutrition
12
Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo County

Procurement and distribution of food to agencies serving the needy.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank; the most unlike its peers is Cache County Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 58 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/54
Grantees still filing
38/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION: $566,209 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY VENTURES CO…CACHE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,600 · Community Improvement+1 more: $13,212 · Community ImprovementHOME START INC: $510,000 · Crime & LegalHOME START INCMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $268,000 · EducationMONARCH SCHOO…URBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY CHARTER: $100,000 · EducationURBAN CORPS O…GUILD GIVING FOUNDATION: $14,300 · Education+1 more: $6,000 · EducationURBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $368,000 · EmploymentURBAN CORPS O…SAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $250,000 · Housing & ShelterSAN DIEGO HA…SAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $58,000 · Housing & ShelterSAN DIEGO RE…Proud Ground: $25,000 · Housing & ShelterProud GroundSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $15,533 · Housing & ShelterRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $110,403 · Human ServicesRAPHAEL H…Forward Assist: $48,058 · Human ServicesForward A…MATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $27,393 · Human ServicesMATT TALB…The Camp Cole Foundation Inc: $17,883 · Human ServicesThe Camp …IDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $11,670 · Human ServicesABILITY360 INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $9,884 · Human Services+2 more: $11,700 · Human ServicesRELIEF NURSERY INC: $60,902 · OtherRELIEF NURSERY INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND: $56,903 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF …Auto-Tek Workforce Development: $25,500 · OtherINFINITE HERO FOUNDATION: $90,000 · OtherINFINITE HERO FOUNDATIONMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · OtherMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATI…Third Avenue Charitable Organization: $100,000 · OtherThird Avenue Charitable …VETERANS SPORTSMAN ALLIANCE: $34,000 · OtherChildren's Cancer Association: $28,500 · Other+27 more: $228,220 · Other+27 more
Community Improvement$608,021Crime & Legal$510,000Education$388,300Employment$368,000Housing & Shelter$348,533Human Services$256,991Other$674,025

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY VENTURES CORPORATION: $566,209 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetHOME START INC: $510,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetURBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY: $368,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetMONARCH SCHOOL PROJECT: $268,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetSAN DIEGO HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $250,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetRAPHAEL HOUSE OF PORTLAND: $110,403 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetURBAN CORPS OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY CHARTER: $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThird Avenue Charitable Organization: $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetINFINITE HERO FOUNDATION: $90,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetRELIEF NURSERY INC: $60,902 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSAN DIEGO RESCUE MISSION INC: $58,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER PORTLAND: $56,903 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetMBA OPENS DOORS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetForward Assist: $48,058 over 1y, 58% of budgetCACHE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $28,600 over 2y, 16% of budgetMATT TALBOT KITCHEN & OUTREACH: $27,393 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetProud Ground: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDOERNBECHER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $21,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Camp Cole Foundation Inc: $17,883 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTOUGH ENOUGH TO WEAR PINK INC: $16,859 over 1y, 17% of budgetVALLEY HOUSING COALITION INC: $16,820 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Of Idaho Inc: $15,657 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE INC: $15,533 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUILD GIVING FOUNDATION: $14,300 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTWIN FALLS OPTIMIST FOUNDATION INC: $13,212 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetIDAHO YOUTH RANCH INC: $11,670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER CARE PROVIDERS OF SAN DIEGO INC DBA HOMEAID SAN DIEGO: $10,705 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY DISASTER PREPAREDNESS FOU: $10,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetABILITY360 INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Charities of Northern Nevada: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGIVINGA FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $9,884 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREMEMBERING AMERICA'S HEROES: $6,100 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetFoodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege Bound: $6,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF KERN: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII FOODBANK INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA RIVERSIDE SAN BERNARDINO COUNTIES: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACOBS & CUSHMAN SAN DIEGO FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD BANK: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiberty Road Foundation: $5,700 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCHEYANNA'S CHAMPIONS 4 CHILDREN: $5,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWreaths Across America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Charities Aid Foundat…Wells Fargo FoundationMagic Valley Festival…Carmax FoundationWashington Federal Fo…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…LPL Financial Foundat…Jewish Community Foun…The Oregon Community …Thrivent Financial fo…The Albertsons Compan…Enterprise Holdings F…
Charities Aid Foundation AmericaVA14× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charities Aid Foundation America · Wells Fargo Foundation · Magic Valley Festival of Giving Inc · Carmax Foundation · Washington Federal Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · LPL Financial Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The Oregon Community Foundation · Thrivent Financial for Lutherans · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation

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 Guild Giving Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Guild Giving Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Relief Nursery Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Oregon Food Bank: 21% of income from government
  • Proud Ground: 11% of income from government
  • Raphael House of Portland: 10% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Guild Giving Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Guild Giving 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 58 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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