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Plinth

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Northern California Grantmakers

regions most pressing social issues.

$397k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$190k
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 FY2019–2024.

Youth Development$2.4MPhilanthropy$654kCommunity Improvement$600kHuman Services$160kEnvironment$140kCivil Rights$117kPublic Safety & Disaster$50kHousing & Shelter$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $17k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $380k
$5,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Catalyst of San Diego$190,000
Southern Calif Grantmakers$190,000
Sogorea Te Land Trust$5,500
Wiyot Tribe$5,500
Assn of Ramaytush Ohlone$5,500
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $360k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 56% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Funders Together to End Homel: $10k → 16%Coleman Adv for Children: $30k → 10%Jakara Movement: $30k → 19%Services Immigrant Rights Ed: $30k → 8%Filipino Advocates Justice: $30k → 10%Coleman Adv for Children: $20k → 10%Jakara Movement: $20k → 19%Services Immigrant Rights Ed: $20k → 8%Black Organizing Project Inc: $30k → 10%Coleman Adv for Children: $10k → 10%Jakara Movement: $15k → 19%Services Immigrant Rights Ed: $15k → 8%Filipino Advocates Justice: $20k → 10%Filipino Advocates Justice: $15k → 10%Young Womens Freedom Center: $35k → 10%Young Womens Freedom Center: $20k → 10%Young Womens Freedom Center: $10k → 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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.5M · 25 repeat orgs$271k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +30% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
9

Total granted

$2.5M
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+30%

Still filing today

96%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

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

  • CV
    COMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING
    3× · 2019–2021 · $530k · revenue +98%
  • SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS
    4× · 2019–2024 · $335k · revenue +418%
  • Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties
    3× · 2019–2024 · $299k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IL
    IDEO LP
    one grant, 2020 · $50k
  • TB
    The Black Organizing Project Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue -24%
  • YA
    YOUTH ALLIANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +128%

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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

—
3
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
4
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
5
Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy

CAUSE's mission is to build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.

Community Improvement
6
Asian Immigrant Women Advocates Inc

Asian Immigrant Women Advocates empowers low-income, limited English speaking immigrant women and youth through education, leadership development and civic participation programs.

Human Services
7
The California Center for Civic Participation

To educate california youth about the operations of local, state, and federal government.

Public Benefit
8
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
9
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
10
Go Public Schools Advocates

Our mission is to activate the leadership of families, educators, and community allies to advocate on behalf of California children and youth to ensure that all students have access to excellent public schools in their neighborhoods and…

Education
11
Northern California Grantmakers

regions most pressing social issues. We pool resources, share information, work together, and learn from each other. NCG recognizes that the challenges facing our communities are complex, entrenched and interconnected.

Philanthropy
12
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Women's Freedom Center and the most unlike its peers is Trees Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr16%11%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr17%39%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr12%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr16%32%5–10yr20%10%10–20yr17%37%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr12%2%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/39
the rest of the field
14%
11,902/83,765

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

37 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. 37 of the 40 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
25/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $1,140,237 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation IncSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $334,834 · PhilanthropySOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERSCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties — $299,334 · PhilanthropyCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties+1 more — $20,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING — $530,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY VISION CA…RESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR OAKLAND YOUTH RJOY — $70,000 · Community ImprovementRESTORATIVE JUSTICE…MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $70,000 · Community ImprovementMOVEMENT STRATEGY C…COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $30,000 · Community ImprovementTIDES CENTER — $130,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERSERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN) — $65,000 · Human ServicesSERVICES IMMIGR…FILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE — $65,000 · Human ServicesFILIPINO ADVOCA…JAKARA MOVEMENT — $65,000 · Human ServicesJAKARA MOVEMENTYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER — $65,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG WOMEN'S F…COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ — $65,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES UNI…Coleman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth — $60,000 · Human ServicesColeman Childre…The Black Organizing Project Inc — $30,000 · Human ServicesThe Black Organ…+1 more — $10,000 · Human ServicesRYSE INC — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth Together Inc — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentOakland Kids First — $65,000 · Youth DevelopmentYouth United for Community Action — $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $160,000 · HealthHomies Organizing The Mission To Empower Youth HOMEY — $60,000 · HealthAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE — $60,000 · OtherAMERICAN FRIE…IDEO LP — $50,000 · OtherIDEO LPTrees Foundation — $30,000 · OtherTrees Foundat…NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $30,000 · OtherNORTHERN CALI…COMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT — $65,000 · OtherCOMMUNITIES F…Asian Pacific Environmental Network — $64,500 · OtherAsian Pacific…SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $70,000 · OtherSOCIAL GOOD F…COMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC — $30,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY WOR…YOUTH ALLIANCE — $30,000 · OtherYOUTH ALLIANC…Causa Justa Just Cause — $30,000 · OtherCausa Justa J…+3 more — $26,500 · Other+3 moreGenders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network — $65,000 · Civil RightsMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $35,000 · Civil RightsCalifornians For Justice Education Fund — $35,000 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action — $30,000 · Civil Rights
Philanthropy$1,794,405Community Improvement$700,000Human Services$555,000Youth Development$230,000Health$220,000Other$486,000Civil Rights$165,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $1,140,237 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY VISION CAPITAL & CONSULTING — $530,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GRANTMAKERS — $334,834 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCatalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties — $299,334 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $160,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $130,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRESTORATIVE JUSTICE FOR OAKLAND YOUTH RJOY — $70,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRYSE INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR A BETTER ENVIRONMENT — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN) — $65,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetFILIPINO ADVOCATES FOR JUSTICE — $65,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetYouth Together Inc — $65,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetGenders & Sexualities Alliance Network DBA GSA Network — $65,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetJAKARA MOVEMENT — $65,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S FREEDOM CENTER — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOakland Kids First — $65,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ — $65,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $64,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetColeman Children and Youth Services dba Coleman Advocates for Children & Youth — $60,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHomies Organizing The Mission To Empower Youth HOMEY — $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetYouth United for Community Action — $35,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetMALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND — $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCalifornians For Justice Education Fund — $35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTrees Foundation — $30,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetThe Black Organizing Project Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTH ALLIANCE — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCausa Justa Just Cause — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA INDIAN DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY WORKS WEST INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetChinese for Affirmative Action — $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOGOREA TE LAND TRUST — $15,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAssociation of Ramaytush Ohlone — $5,500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

The California Endowm…Amalgamated Charitabl…East Bay Community Fo…The San Francisco Fou…The California Wellne…Silicon Valley Commun…Movement Strategy Cen…The James Irvine Foun…Tides FoundationStupski FoundationThe Sobrato Family Fo…Sierra Health Foundat…
The California EndowmentCA45.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The California Endowment · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · The James Irvine Foundation · Tides Foundation · Stupski Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management

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 Northern California Grantmakers 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%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 40 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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