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Harvego Family 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.

$138k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0191% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$296kCommunity Improvement$259kEducation$152kEnvironment$127kPublic Safety & Disaster$115kFood & Nutrition$47kHuman Services$43kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $33k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$2.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$50,000
GREATER SACRAMENTO ECONOMIC COUNCIL$25,000
PLACER LAND TRUST$20,000
SHRINERS CHILDREN'S OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$10,000
THISTLE FARMS INC$5,000
RIVER CITY FOOD BANK$5,000
ONEGENAWAY$5,000
SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES$5,000
FAIRYTALE TOWN$5,000
DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO PARTNERSHIP$2,500
CAMP FIRE INLAND NORTHWEST$2,000
SACRAMENTO POLICE MOUNTED ASSOCIATION$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$1,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $25k) 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%ST HOPE ACADEMY: $2k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $3k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $8k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $8k → 12%SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 21 repeat orgs$64k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
26

Total granted

$1.1M
$48k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+16%

Still filing today

76%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $16k 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
EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentCommunity ImprovementArts & CultureCrime & LegalOther
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

  • DS
    DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $296k · revenue +168% · 44% of their budget
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION
    4× · 2022–2025 · $130k · revenue +83%
  • PL
    PLACER LAND TRUST
    9× · 2017–2025 · $125k · revenue ×17

Funded once

  • RC
    RICHLAND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue 0%
  • CM
    Claremont McKenna College
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -41%
  • SC
    SACRAMENTO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +77%
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
Sacramento Pioneer Association
Arts & Culture
2
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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3
Sacramento Police Canine Association

Care for retired police canine dogs.

Animals
4
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
5
California State University Alumni Association

Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.

Education
6
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
7
Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce

To educate our members and the community by developing programs designed to strengthen and expand the potential of asian pacific islander (api) businesses and the api community. sacc's core competency and our competitive advantage is our…

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8
San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Sacramento Valley Conservancy

The primary purpose of the organization is the preservation, protection, aquisition, and/ or enhancement of land in its natural, scenic, historical, agricultural, forested and open space condition in the greater sacramento valley…

Unclassified
10
Sacramento Steps Forward

The Organization's mission is to ensure that individuals and families experiencing homelessness or the risk of homelessness are able to access housing services and resources on their path to economic stability. The Organization is the lead…

Human Services
11
Sacramento Region Community Foundation

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.

Philanthropy
12
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Tree Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Sacramento Police Mounted Association. 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

29 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. 29 of the 50 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
19/29
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GREATER SACRAMENTO ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $200,000 · OtherGREATER SACRAMENTO ECONOMIC COUNCILSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 · OtherSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICE…CAMP FIRE INLAND NORTHWEST: $18,000 · OtherSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $20,000 · Other+34 more: $113,069 · Other+34 moreDOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION: $295,541 · PhilanthropyDOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO FOUNDATIO…STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $130,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLE…SACRAMENTO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 · Education+2 more: $750 · EducationPLACER LAND TRUST: $124,996 · EnvironmentPLACER LAND …+1 more: $1,000 · EnvironmentSacramento Police Foundation Inc: $71,000 · Crime & LegalSacramento …Sacramento Police Mounted Association: $43,700 · Crime & LegalSacramento …GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $50,000 · Community ImprovementRIVER CITY FOOD BANK: $15,000 · Community ImprovementFairytale Town Inc: $25,000 · Recreation & Sports
Other$376,069Philanthropy$295,541Education$135,750Environment$125,996Crime & Legal$114,700Community Improvement$65,000Recreation & Sports$25,000

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 budgetDOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION: $295,541 over 8y, 44% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLACER LAND TRUST: $124,996 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetSacramento Police Foundation Inc: $71,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetGREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $50,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetSacramento Police Mounted Association: $43,700 over 4y, 100% of budgetFairytale Town Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP FIRE INLAND NORTHWEST: $18,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetRIVER CITY FOOD BANK: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHISTLE FARMS INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRICHLAND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,496 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetClaremont McKenna College: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Sacramento Chamber of Commerce: $1,450 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSacramento Tree Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROSEVILLE POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC: $1,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DEL PASO FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIVESTOCK MEMORIAL RESEARCH FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLACER LAND TRUST ↗
  • Who funds Sacramento Police Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Sacramento Police Mounted Association ↗
  • Who funds Fairytale Town Inc ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
  • Who funds CAMP FIRE INLAND NORTHWEST ↗
  • Who funds RIVER CITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds THISTLE FARMS INC ↗
  • Who funds RICHLAND CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE GENERATION AWAY ↗
  • Who funds Claremont McKenna College ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO HISTORY ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds ST HOPE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds West Sacramento Chamber of Commerce ↗
  • Who funds Sacramento Tree Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ROSEVILLE POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC ↗

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 Community FoundationCA23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · The Lasher Foundation Inc · Pfund Family Foundation · Taylor-Meyer Family Foundation · Western Health Advantage · Setzer Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Union Pacific Foundation · Rotary Club of Sacramento Foundation · Ed and Betty Manoyan 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 Harvego Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harvego Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 Harvego Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Harvego Family 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 50 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-PF 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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