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Oates Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $57k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $194k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DESTINY CHRISTIAN CHURCH ASSEMBLY OF GOD | $1,440,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR COMPASSION AND EDUC DEVELOPMENT | $53,000 |
| ANRAK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $46,750 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC | $28,800 |
| HEART OF JB | $26,000 |
| JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL OF SACRAMENTO | $25,250 |
| HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WESTERN STATES FELLOWSHIP | $15,000 |
| BAYSIDE COVENANT CHURCH GRANITE BAY ROSEVILLE CA | $12,500 |
| YES YOUNG ENOUGH TO SERVE | $10,000 |
| THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| DRIVING OUT CANCER INC | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PTA CA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INC | $5,000 |
| WESTMONT COLLEGE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +65% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 12 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, 11% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- WJWILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2023 · $145k · revenue +49%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $144k · revenue +16%
- APAlternatives Pregnancy Center4× · 2019–2022 · $70k · revenue +109%
Funded once
- DCDestiny Community Servicesone grant, 2023 · $305k · revenue -16%
- EEASEACEDone grant, 2017 · $80k
- TCTHE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIPone grant, 2022 · $55k · revenue -32%
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 mission of the scga junior golf foundation is to develop an inclusive golf community that enables kids to thrive on and beyond the course. we believe that every kid in southern california, no matter their circumstance, should have the…
The mission of yfc is to communicate the life changing message of jesus christ to all young people. it has served thousands of children, teens and families in the sacramento and surrounding areas for over 65 years;offering programs…
Organization's mission ====================== the university of california, san francisco(ucsf) is among the world's leading universities dedicated to advancing health worldwide through biomedical research, graduate-level education in the…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The future foundation of sacramento, inc. provides mentoring and scholarship funding to local financially qualified students in support of their college education.
Established in 1962, the foundation is the central foundation for the california state university (csu) system and serves the office of the chancellor. the foundation exists to support excellence in teaching and learning, and to serve the…
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Northeastern & Central California and the most unlike its peers is Derek Fisher Be Better Foundation. 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
73 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. 73 of the 111 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 Destiny Community Services ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM JESSUP UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FAITH MEDICAL MISSIONS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN STATES FELLOWSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds HAMMOND BLESSED 25TH ↗
- Who funds Alternatives Pregnancy Center ↗
- Who funds ANRAK CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAITHWALK LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD AND CAROLE PUMP FOUNDATION (FKA THE HAROLD PUMP FOUNDATION) ↗
- Who funds CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CAROLINA CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS-CARE ↗
- Who funds YES YOUNG ENOUGH TO SERVE ↗
- Who funds Kyles Family Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
- Who funds HEART OF JB ↗
- Who funds BILETNIKOFF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds SPOA 1849 Foundation ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JENNA & PATRICKS FOUNDATION OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO COUNTY AG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE ↗
- Who funds Pacific Justice Institute ↗
- Who funds Blue Heart International ↗
- Who funds LADYLIKE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR UCP OF GREATER SACRAMENTO ↗
- Who funds DRIVING OUT CANCER 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: Marvin Buzz Oates Charitable Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · United Way California Capital Region · Sierra Health Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Dignity Health · Safe Credit Union · Setzer Foundation · The California Endowment · Harvego Family Foundation · Kelly 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 Oates Family 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.
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
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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