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Norcal AIDS Challenge
NCAC raises funds and awareness to support organizations in Northern California to end the HIV/AIDS pandemic and care for those living with and affected by HIV/AIDS.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 8 grants below total $72,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $90,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $18,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sunburst Projects | $12,000 |
| Sierra Foothills AIDS Foundat | $11,000 |
| HARM Reduction Services | $9,000 |
| Golden Rule Services | $9,000 |
| SANE | $9,000 |
| Healing Waters | $9,000 |
| Sierra Hope | $6,500 |
| Gender Health Center | $6,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $125k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
12 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- SPSunburst Projects7× · 2017–2025 · $94k · revenue +174%
- GRGolden Rule Services7× · 2017–2025 · $89k · revenue +282%
- SFSIERRA FOOTHILLS AIDS FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +67%
Funded once
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.
We provide healthcare and health management services in the Oakland, California Bay Area. We seek to recognize, empathize, and correctly respond to clients individual needs both medically and psychosocially. Everyone in our care is treated…
Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County operates a state-authorized Syringe Service Program. This program distributes complimentary syringes, sharps containers, wound care items, etc. to low-income and homeless individuals in our…
Northern Nevada Hopes provides affordable, high-quality, medical, behavioral health, and support services for all. We are dedicated to building a healthier community by providing coordinated care and support for individuals and family…
NEED reduces the spread of Hepatitis C, HIV, and other blood-borne pathogens due to injection drug use by providing free, clean syringes and injection supplies, as well as education and training on issues relevant to injection drug users,…
To promote health, well-being, and social justice for those living with HIV, LGBTQ+ individuals, and communities marginalized by society.
To enhance and promote the health and wellbeing of the community.
Aids project of the east bay (apeb) is focused on the prevention of the spread of hiv and supports individuals living with the virus through programs targeted at some of the most vulnerable and marginalized individuals. apeb seeks to…
San francisco aids foundation promotes health, wellness, and social justice for communities most impacted by hiv, through sexual health and substance use services, advocacy, and community partnerships.
Healthy Community Forum for the Greater Sacramento Region operates under the name Community HealthWorks (formally Sacramento Covered), a not-for-profit philanthropic organization, is an innovative leader in developing and implementing a…
Sacramento Recovery House, Inc., is dedicated to providing gender responsive, trauma informed, residential services to adult persons seeking recovery from substance use disorders.
Hhhrc serves hawai'i communities by reducing the harm and fighting the stigma of hiv, hepatitis, homelessness, substance use, mental illness, and poverty in our community. hhhrc focuses our efforts on those disproportionately affected by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Foothills Aids Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Caring Choices Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 13 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.
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: Cares Foundation · Network for Good · 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 Norcal AIDS Challenge 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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