· Public charity
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A collaboration of business owners and community members dedicated to making a difference by pooling donations and gifting them to local non-profits serving people in need.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $398k
- $250k+1 grant · $472k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUMINA ALLIANCE | $472,166 |
| VINEYARD TEAM | $101,580 |
| TRANSITIONS MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION | $88,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE MID CENTRAL COAST | $71,192 |
| PASO ROBLES YOUTH ARTS CENTER | $69,907 |
| EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION | $67,810 |
| STUDIOS ON THE PARK | $6,300 |
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 (FY17–24, $331k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $337k 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
- AHAFFORDABLE HOUSING PASO ROBLES4× · 2017–2020 · $693k · revenue +40% · 57% of their budget
- ECEL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION4× · 2017–2024 · $518k · revenue +441% · 37% of their budget
- LALUMINA ALLIANCE2× · 2023–2024 · $491k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTYgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +88%
- PRPASO ROBLES YOUTH ARTS CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +74%
- FOFRIENDS OF SAN LUIS OBISPO BOTANICAL GARDENone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +4%
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 corporation was formed primarily to engage in acquiring, developing, rehabilitation, owning and managing affordable housing for low and moderate income persons in the cities and unincorporated areas of san luis obispo county.
Increase the supply of affordable housing in san luis obispo county.
To operate a boys and girls club facility and after-school and summer camp programs for all area children regardless of ability to pay in the Five Cities area of San Luis Obispo County.
To pursue affordable housing for low to moderate income residents by fostering strategic relationships with other agencies.
The vision of center for family strengthening is a community where all children are valued, nurtured and safe. our misson is to build effective community partnerships dedicated to the support of strong families and the prevention of child…
Hospice of slo provides volunteer support, education, and counseling to those living with life threatening or terminal illness, their families, and the bereaved. our primary clientele are low to moderate income children, adults, families,…
To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.
Bike slo county inspires, educates, advocates, and works to build a safe, healthy and connected community through bicycling.
The mission of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates) of San Benito County is to train and support community volunteers who advocate for abused and neglected children placed in foster care, upholding the children's rights while pursuing…
Mission Statement: Community Action Partnership of San Luis Obispo County addresses the causes of poverty, empowering low-income people to achieve self-sufficiency through community-based collaborations and programs.Vision Statement:…
San luis obispo legal assistance foundation's mission is to provide legal services and resources to people in need.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Camino Homeless Organization and the most unlike its peers is Infinite Music Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 26 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE CENTRAL COAST ↗
- Who funds AFFORDABLE HOUSING PASO ROBLES ↗
- Who funds EL CAMINO HOMELESS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds LUMINA ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TRANSITIONSMENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S SELF HELP HOUSING CORP ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of North SLO Co Inc ↗
- Who funds COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL COAST VINEYARD TEAM ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PASO ROBLES YOUTH ARTS CENTER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SAN LUIS OBISPO BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY FOR SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CARE NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORATIVE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds Smart Share Housing Solutions Inc ↗
- Who funds SLO NOOR FOUNDATION A NON-PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds INFINITE MUSIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds One Cool Earth ↗
- Who funds TOLOSA CHILDREN'S DENTAL CENTER OF SAN LUIS OBISPO COUNTY ↗
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: The Community Foundation San Luis Obispo · The Niner Foundation Inc · Resnick Foundation · Dignity Health · Carol and Warren Sinsheimer Foundation Inc · The Dorf Foundation Inc · Hughes Charitable Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Must 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.