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Norcal Group 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.

$115k
Granted FY2021
11
Grants FY2021
6
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2021.

Health$681kHuman Services$40kHousing & Shelter$40kFood & Nutrition$29kEducation$25kReligion$25kCivil Rights$5k
02FY2021 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k4 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $83k
$10,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WESTMINSTER FREE CLINIC$20,000
SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER$13,000
CAREGIVERS JOURNAL$10,000
SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC$10,000
SAN DIEGO COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION$10,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE$10,000
CHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES$10,000
PROJECT ANGEL FOOD$9,455
WESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER$9,000
CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES$8,500
THE ARC MINNESOTA INC$5,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY19–21, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%1ST VETERANS KIDS CARE INC: $4k → 16%LANGLEY RESIDENTIAL SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $2k → 6%SIERRA COMMUNITY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES: $10k → 11%CHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES: $9k → 11%ILLUMINATION FOUNDATION: $30k → 10%FAMILIES TOGETHER OF ORANGE COUNTY: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
NH
MN
NY
PA
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$441k · 15 repeat orgs$404k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
48

Total granted

$441k
$391k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+42%

Still filing today

87%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

  • SD
    SAN DIEGO COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION DBA CHAMPIONS FOR HEALTH
    3× · 2018–2021 · $60k · revenue +116%
  • WF
    WESTMINSTER FREE CLINIC
    2× · 2019–2021 · $50k · revenue +242%
  • SC
    South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center
    3× · 2018–2021 · $42k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • HK
    HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue -1%
  • IH
    Illumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +202%
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SERVICE EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND OF THE SEDMSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +55%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
San Fernando Community Hospital

Provides primary care, oral health, and behavioral health care, including health education to the community without regard to the ability to pay for services.

Health
2
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
3
Marin Community Clinic

To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.

Health
4
Mendocino Community Health Clinic Inc

To provide the highest quality healthcare for everyone in our communities.

Health
5
Redwoods Rural Health Center Inc

Redwoods Rural Health Center is a Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) that provides primary, preventative healthcare services to all people without regard to social or economic status.

Health
6
Mendocino Coast Clinics Inc

Mendocino Coast Clinics

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7
Harbor Community Clinic Inc

To provide quality, comprehensive, healthcare and supportive services to those in our community, regardless of their ability to pay.

Health
8
Laguna Beach Community Clinic

The mission of laguna beach community clinic (lbcc) is to provide excellent medical care regardless of the patient's ability to pay.

Health
9
Nevada Health Centers Inc

NVHC provides health services throughout the State of Nevada. Health services include OB/GYN, Pediatrics, Internal Medicine, Primary medical, Behavioral Health and dental care services. NVHC operates a mobile mammography clinic, two mobile…

Health
10
Santa Cruz Community Health Centers

Our mission is to improve the health of our patients and the community and advocate the feminist goals of social, political, & economic equality.

Health
11
Imperial Beach Community Clinic

Operate clinics to providing primary healthcare to people of all ages in imperial beach and surrounding communities and southwest San Diego county place emphasis on patient satisfaction in a sensitive environment.

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12
La Maestra Family Clinic Inc

To provide compassionate, complete healthcare to the communities we are privileged to serve. During the fiscal year, we provided services to over 48,000 patients and 216,000 visits.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mission Area Health Associates and the most unlike its peers is 1ST Veterans Kids Care Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsHealth Access Advocacy and …Food Banks and PantriesMilitary Veterans SupportAffordable Housing Construc…Developmental Disabilities …Affordable Housing Developm…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr17%31%20–35yr11%29%35–55yr13%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%35%20–35yr11%20%35–55yr13%24%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/62
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,916

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

61 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. 61 of the 64 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
59/61
Grantees still filing
47/61
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WESTMINSTER FREE CLINIC — $50,000 · HealthWESTMINSTER FREE CLINICSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center — $42,000 · HealthSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood F…ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES — $40,000 · HealthASIAN HEALTH SERVICESHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $30,000 · HealthHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATIONNORTHEAST VALLEY HEALTH CORPORATION — $29,753 · HealthNORTHEAST VALLEY HEALTH CORPORATIONPEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH — $26,000 · HealthPEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTHUNIVERSITY FACULTY ASSOCIATES INC — $25,000 · HealthUNIVERSITY FACULTY ASSOCIATES INCCHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES — $22,500 · HealthPAJARO VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH TRUST — $20,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $19,455 · HealthWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER — $19,000 · Health+17 more — $103,000 · Health+17 moreSAN DIEGO COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION DBA CHAMPIONS FOR HEALTH — $60,000 · OtherSAN DIEGO COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDAT…SAMARITAN HOUSE — $30,000 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSESan Francisco Community Clinic Consortium — $25,000 · OtherSan Francisco Community Clinic Consortiu…ST ANTHONY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherST ANTHONY FOUNDATIONCAREGIVERS JOURNAL — $20,000 · OtherCAREGIVERS JOURNALBEACON CLINIC FOR HEALTH AND HOPE — $17,185 · OtherBEACON CLINIC FOR HEALTH AND HOPECOALITION OF 100 BLACK WOMEN — $15,770 · OtherTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC — $14,000 · OtherMANATEE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES - SW FLORIDA FREE PAIN CLINIC — $10,000 · Other+15 more — $72,017 · Other+15 moreIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation — $30,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES INC — $18,500 · Human ServicesFAMILIES TOGETHER OF ORANGE COUNTY — $4,500 · Human Services1ST VETERANS KIDS CARE INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesSierra Community Medical Foundation — $3,500 · Human Services+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVICE EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND OF THE SEDMS — $25,000 · EducationPLACER NEVADA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY — $13,000 · Community ImprovementFOOD FOR THOUGHT — $10,000 · Food & NutritionWEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION — $6,500 · Housing & ShelterHarbor Homes Inc — $3,000 · Housing & Shelter
Health$426,708Other$298,972Human Services$62,000Education$25,000Community Improvement$13,000Food & Nutrition$10,000Housing & Shelter$9,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAN DIEGO COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY FOUNDATION DBA CHAMPIONS FOR HEALTH — $60,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER FREE CLINIC — $50,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center — $42,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetASIAN HEALTH SERVICES — $40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIllumination Health Home formerly The Illumination Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHEAST VALLEY HEALTH CORPORATION — $29,753 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPEDIATRIC AND FAMILY MEDICAL CENTER DBA EISNER HEALTH — $26,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICE EDUCATION & RESEARCH FUND OF THE SEDMS — $25,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetSan Francisco Community Clinic Consortium — $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN HEALTH ASSOCIATES — $22,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY COMMUNITY HEALTH TRUST — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCAREGIVERS JOURNAL — $20,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetPROJECT ANGEL FOOD — $19,455 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWESTSIDE FAMILY HEALTH CENTER — $19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN MEDICAL MINISTRIES INC — $18,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetBEACON CLINIC FOR HEALTH AND HOPE — $17,185 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetTHE ARC MINNESOTA INC — $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER — $13,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLACER NEVADA COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY — $13,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMANATEE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetFOOD FOR THOUGHT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMANI CLINIC — $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetINDIAN DOCTORS CLUB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC HEALTH CARE VENTURE INC — $9,542 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVISTA COMMUNITY CLINIC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF THE PENNSYLVANIA MEDICAL SOCIETY — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWEINGART CENTER ASSOCIATION — $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALUD PARA LA GENTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAIRPORT MARINA COUNSELING SERVICE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CLINIC 'SERVING CHILDREN AND THEIR FAMILIES' — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINLAND WELLNESS INFORMATION NETWORK — $5,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HEALTHCARE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVINGSTONE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPETALUMA HEALTH CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEG UP FARM INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLESTONNAC FREE CLINIC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION AREA HEALTH ASSOCIATES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECMC FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKOREAN HEALTH EDUCATION INFORMATION AND RESEARCH CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH EAST MEDICAL SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MAPLE COUNSELING CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFAMILIES TOGETHER OF ORANGE COUNTY — $4,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACH TREE HEALTHCARE — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DENTAL FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRICHARD LAMBERT FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budget
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.

Direct ReliefCalifornia Physicians…Kaiser Foundation Hos…California Healthcare…Delta Dental Communit…California Primary Ca…Essential Access Heal…Reach Out and Read IncTides CenterThe Ahmanson Foundati…The Ralph M Parsons F…California Community …
Direct ReliefCA48.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Direct Relief · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Healthcare Foundation · Delta Dental Community Care Foundation · California Primary Care Association · Essential Access Health · Reach Out and Read Inc · Tides Center · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community 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 Group 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines