· Private foundation
Help-A-Child Foundation
Its FY2021 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 FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- $10k–50k6 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $291k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIVER OAK CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $150,000 |
| WILLOW VIEW ASSOCIATION | $79,750 |
| WILLOW VIEW ASSOCIATION | $61,642 |
| UC DAVIS CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $47,500 |
| JDRF | $25,000 |
| MARYS HOUSE | $25,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS | $22,500 |
| CHILDRENS RECEIVING HOME OF SACRAMENTO | $17,500 |
| ST JOHNS SHELTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2021, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k 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
- RORiver Oak Center for Children5× · 2017–2021 · $201k · revenue +9%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC3× · 2018–2021 · $31k · revenue +38%
- BCBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC3× · 2017–2019 · $2k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- FTFairytale Town Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +30%
- FCFRANKLIN CONKLIN FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +63%
- MMARYHOUSEone grant, 2019 · $3k
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.
Starview children & family services provides social and mental health services in california. the services provided will embody a commitment to high clinical standards and quality improvements to assist clients to achieve their maximum…
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
The mission of Wayfinder Family Services is to ensure that children, youth and adults facing challenges always have a place to turn. Founded in 1953 as the Foundation for the Junior Blind, the organization initially enabled visually…
Youth For Change (YFC) mission is to enhance the well being of children, families, individuals, and communities.
Through a holistic approach to emotional well-being, Wellnest offers hope, healing, and opportunity to the children, young adults, families, and communities we serve. Our commitment remains steadfast as we enter our second century of…
Our mission is to end child abuse and neglect through educating, advocating, and counseling to empower and strengthen children and families. Our vision is that all children live in a safe, healthy, and nurturing environment.
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.
To reduce trauma to children who have experienced abuse as well as their families by providing a safe and supportive environment through a collaboration of community agencies.
At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.
A Shared Vision educates, inspires, and empowers families to nurture the development of their young children who are blind or visually impaired. We provide early intervention vision services in families' homes and community settings…
The mission of the Family Care Network is to enhance the wellbeing of children, adults, and families in partnership with our community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Placer Yuba and Sutter and the most unlike its peers is Willow View Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 28 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 River Oak Center for Children ↗
- Who funds WILLOW VIEW ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento ↗
- Who funds Fairytale Town Inc ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN CONKLIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds RIDE TO WALK INC ↗
- Who funds CASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Sacramento ↗
- Who funds Albie Aware Inc ↗
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · The Loveall Foundation for Children · Teichert Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Help-A-Child Foundation 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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