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Orange County Congregation Community Organization

Promotion of grassroots leadership and civic participation to improve the quality of life for vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals.

$343k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$137k
Largest
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 FY20172024.

Community Improvement$405kHuman Services$282kCivil Rights$134kHousing & Shelter$103kYouth Development$47k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$103,333
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE TIDES CENTER$136,666
OCCORD$103,333
THE KENNEDY COMMISSION$103,333
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 (FY19–23, $187k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $46k → 10%ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $29k → 10%ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $17k → 10%ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $16k → 10%ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES: $8k → 10%HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $2k → 10%MECCA: $17k → 10%ONE OC-CHILDREN'S CAUSE: $16k → 10%MECCA: $16k → 10%MULTI-ETHNIC COLLABORATIVE OF COMMUNITY AGENCIES: $10k → 10%MECCA: $8k → 10%WESTERN YOUTH SERVICES: $2k → 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$498k · 6 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$498k
$63k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%
+494%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • WA
    WE ARE GROUNDSWELL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $134k · revenue +59%
  • ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES
    5× · 2019–2023 · $116k · revenue +291%
  • ME
    MULTI ETHNIC COLLABORATIVE OF COMMUNITY AGENCIES
    4× · 2019–2023 · $51k · revenue +214%

Funded once

  • CA
    COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY
    one grant, 2023 · $56k · revenue -5%
  • AU
    ANAHEIM UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • HC
    HOPE COMMUNITY SERVICE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +494%

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
Association of California Cities

To support local control and promote good governance & policy making among orange county leaders.

Education
2
Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment Action

The Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment (ACCE) Action is a grassroots, member-led, statewide community organization working with more than 16,000 members in six counties across California, dedicated to raising the voices of…

Human Services
3
Orange County Congregation Community Organization

Promotion of grassroots leadership and civic participation to improve the quality of life for vulnerable and disadvantaged individuals.

Community Improvement
4
Abilities Oc

To help people with developmental disabilities reach their highest potential and guide them through their special needs journey.

Human Services
5
Just Communities Central Coast

At Just Communities we work to ensure that Central Coast schools, organizations, and communities are places of opportunity, not places of limitation. We advance justice by engaging our community in leadership development, dialogue, action…

Civil Rights
6
Association of California Comm & Energy Services

To ensure equity in access to program services for low-income households and to enhance the quality and depth of these services. the core strategies are to strengthen, develop, educate, and advocate

Human Services
7
The California Channel

To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…

8
Child Care Council of Orange County Inc

To assist parents, child care programs and the community with information and resources to choose child care, provide child care and/or support child care and early learning options in orange county, new york.

9
Orange County Asian and Pacific Islander

Ocapica's mission is to build a healthier and stronger community by enhancing the well-being of asians and pacific islanders through inclusive partnerships in the areas of service, education, advocacy, organizing, and research.

Health
10
Voice of Orange CountyOrg

To hold government agencies, elected officials and other power brokers in orange county accountable through investigative news coverage. to be catalyst in the community for a robust and sophisticated discourse on local politics and…

Education
11
Orange County Grantmakers

The specific purpose of this corporation is to Orange County Grantmakers is a regional philanthropic serving organization advancing social impact by supporting, strengthening, and building adaptive leadership across the funder and…

Philanthropy
12
California State Council of Service Employees

The council coordinated the efforts of affiliated local unions and assisted their organizations work, bettering the working conditions of their members.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oneoc and the most unlike its peers is Hope Community Service Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 11 of the 12 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TIDES CENTER — $136,666 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTERACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES — $116,342 · Human ServicesACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICESMULTI ETHNIC COLLABORATIVE OF COMMUNITY AGENCIES — $51,342 · Human ServicesMULTI ETHNIC COLLABORATIVE OF COMMUNI…Western Youth Services — $17,842 · Human ServicesWestern Youth Services+1 more — $1,500 · Human ServicesWE ARE GROUNDSWELL — $134,152 · OtherWE ARE GROUNDSWELLCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY — $55,796 · OtherCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ANAHEIM-CYPRESS — $41,342 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREAT…+1 more — $6,000 · OtherONEOC — $170,796 · PhilanthropyONEOCORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT — $136,666 · Community ImprovementORANGE COUNTY C…THE KENNEDY COMMISSION — $103,333 · Housing & ShelterTHE KENNEDY …
Human Services$323,692Other$237,290Philanthropy$170,796Community Improvement$136,666Housing & Shelter$103,333

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 budgetONEOC — $170,796 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $136,666 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITIES ORGANIZED FOR RESPONSIBLE DEVELOPMENT — $136,666 over 2y, 9.1% of budgetWE ARE GROUNDSWELL — $134,152 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES — $116,342 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE KENNEDY COMMISSION — $103,333 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF ORANGE COUNTY — $55,796 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMULTI ETHNIC COLLABORATIVE OF COMMUNITY AGENCIES — $51,342 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER ANAHEIM-CYPRESS — $41,342 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWestern Youth Services — $17,842 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY SERVICE INC — $1,500 over 1y, 1.4% 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.

Charitable Ventures of Orange CountyCA15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charitable Ventures of Orange County · Orange County's United Way · Weingart Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · The California Endowment · 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 Orange County Congregation Community Organization 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
202122232425
no gov · 00%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
    0get no government money at all
    4report 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, FY2025

    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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    How do I get to Orange County Congregation Community Organization?

    Find your warmest path to Orange County Congregation Community Organization through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 12 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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