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Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
78
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Health$5.3MHousing & Shelter$4.6MEducation$1.8MCommunity Improvement$1.0MHuman Services$823kCrime & Legal$481kEnvironment$393kFood & Nutrition$359kOther$0
02FY2024 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k51 grants · $146k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $319k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $840k
  • $250k+2 grants · $2.1M
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$84M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARTNERSHIP HEALTH PLAN OF CALIFORNIA$1,770,000
MONARCH JUSTICE CENTER$375,000
JUSTIN-SIENA HIGH SCHOOL$200,000
QUEEN OF THE VALLEY FOUNDATION$200,000
CANV$177,000
NEWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ABUSE$75,000
KOLBE ACADEMY & TRINITY PREP$70,000
ABODE SERVICES INC$60,000
SHARE THE CARE NAPA VALLEY$58,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY$42,500
CENTER FOR VOLUNTEER & NONPROFIT LEADER$25,000
OUR TOWN ST HELENA$25,000
RAIL ARTS DISTRICT$25,000
RIANDA HOUSE SENIOR ACTIVITY CENTER$20,000
AMERICAN CANYON COMMUNITY AND PARKS FOUNDATION$20,000
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 (FY20–24, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, 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%OUR TOWN ST HELENA: $100k → 9%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 12%UP VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $25k → 9%OUR TOWN ST HELENA: $25k → 9%OUR TOWN ST HELENA: $25k → 9%UPVALLEY FAMILY CENTERS: $10k → 9%UP VALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $8k → 9%UPVALLEY FAMILY CENTER: $10k → 9%UPVALLEY FAMILY CENTERS: $10k → 9%UPVALLEY FAMILY CENTERS: $2k → 9%ON THE MOVE: $852k → 9%NEWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ABUSE: $75k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $30k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION NAPA VALLEY: $30k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION NAPA VALLEY: $30k → 9%NEWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ABUSE: $25k → 9%ON THE MOVE: $10k → 9%ON THE MOVEVOICES: $10k → 9%ON THE MOVE: $10k → 9%ON THE MOVEVOICES: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION NAPA VALLEY: $10k → 9%ON THE MOVE: $10k → 9%ON THE MOVE: $8k → 9%NEWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ABUSE: $5k → 9%NEWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ABUSE: $4k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION NAPA VALLEY: $2k → 9%NEWS DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND SEXUAL ABUSE: $2k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION NAPA VALLEY: $2k → 9%MENTIS: $1.8M → 9%MONARCH JUSTICE CENTER: $375k → 9%MONARCH JUSTICE CENTER: $63k → 9%SHARE THE CARE NAPA VALLEY: $58k → 9%SHARE THE CARE NAPA VALLEY: $52k → 9%SHARE THE CARE NAPA VALLEY: $50k → 9%SHARE THE CARE NAPA VALLEY: $50k → 9%MENTIS: $50k → 9%MENTIS: $40k → 9%MONARCH JUSTIC CENTER: $35k → 9%SHARE THE CARE NAPA VALLEY: $25k → 9%COLLABRIA CARE: $17k → 9%COLLABRIA CARE: $17k → 9%SHARE THE CARE NAPA VALLEY: $16k → 9%MOLLY'S ANGELS: $15k → 9%MOLLY'S ANGELS: $13k → 9%MOLLY'S ANGELS: $12k → 9%MOLLY'S ANGELS: $12k → 9%MENTIS: $10k → 9%MONARCH JUSTIC CENTER: $6k → 9%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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.2M · 107 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

107 repeat relationships — 49 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
74

Total granted

$8.2M
$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+5%

Still filing today

31%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.2M went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & 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

  • M
    MENTIS
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +153%
  • OT
    ON THE MOVE
    5× · 2020–2024 · $909k · revenue +14%
  • MJ
    MONARCH JUSTICE CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $479k · revenue ×12 · 91% of their budget

Funded once

  • BH
    Burbank Housing Corporationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $4.3M · revenue +504% · 67% of their budget
  • SN
    SUSTAINABLE NAPA COUNTY
    one grant, 2021 · $157k · revenue -82%
  • NC
    NAPA COUNTY FLOOD CONTROL
    one grant, 2020 · $142k

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
Napa County Seed Library
Environment
2
Napa-Solano Counties Building & Construction Trades Council

To provide education and training to promote healthy and safe working environments for its members.

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3
Novato Parents Nursery School Inc

To deliver affordable, reliable, and safe child care in a nurturing environment, partnering with parents in the education and development of their children and serving the community as one family

Education
4
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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5
Greater Napa Fair Housing Center

Assist renters in gaining access to fair housing. prevent discrimination by landlords and inform renters of their rights under the law.

Housing & Shelter
6
North Bay Bmx Inc

To Provide and Promote Bicycle Facilities, races, clinics, safety and riding skills training and community dates for the public.

Recreation & Sports
7
Nami Sonoma County

NAMI Sonoma County's mission is to build better lives for individuals and families affected by mental illness throughout Sonoma County by providing education, support, and advocacy.

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8
Napa Valley Community Housing

To develop, own and manage affordable housing for low-income residents of napa county.

Health
9
Community Foundation of the Napa Valley

To mobilize resources, promote philanthropy and provide leadership on vital community issues in napa county. we look for charitable projects that make a lasting difference. we commit our resources to these projects, and inspire others to…

Philanthropy
10
Napa Valley Christian Education Group Dba Veritas Christian Academy

Our Mission Is To Partner With Parents To Educate, Develop, And Nurture Students For A Life Of Christ-centered Excellence In Academics, Christian Character, And Servant Leadership.

Education
11
Napa Valley Grapegrowers Foundation

Cultivate viticultural excellence and environmental stewardship for the napa valley, to be a local and global leader for a science-based approach to grape growing and agricultural stewardship, to ensure the viability and resiliency of…

Food & Nutrition
12
Downtown Napa Farmers Market Corporation

Provide equitable access to local produce, food, and artisan crafts to our whole community while creating opportunities for small farmers and businesses to thrive.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Napa Valley Child Advocacy Network Inc and the most unlike its peers is E & M Presents Inc. 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 28 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%6%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr20%27%20–35yr16%21%35–55yr12%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%4%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%3%10–20yr20%52%20–35yr16%5%35–55yr12%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/73
the rest of the field
13%
103/785

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

59 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 59 of the 209 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
45/59
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PARTNERSHIP HEALTH PLAN OF CALIFORNIA — $1,770,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP HEALTH PLAN OF CALIFORNIAJUSTIN-SIENA HIGH SCHOOL — $1,227,500 · OtherJUSTIN-SIENA HIGH SCHOOLCANV — $177,000 · Other+162 more — $1,988,720 · Other+162 moreBurbank Housing Corporation — $4,262,015 · Housing & ShelterBurbank Housing Corporation+2 more — $178,000 · Housing & ShelterMENTIS — $1,854,500 · Human ServicesMENTISON THE MOVE — $909,004 · Human ServicesON THE MOVEMONARCH JUSTICE CENTER — $478,600 · Human ServicesMONARCH JUSTICE CENTERShare the Care Napa Valley — $251,000 · Human ServicesShare the Care Napa ValleyOUR TOWN ST HELENA — $150,000 · Human Services+6 more — $369,402 · Human Services+6 moreQUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,304,000 · HealthQUEEN OF TH…OLE HEALTH — $125,500 · HealthOLE HEALTHPuertas Abiertas Community Resource Center — $70,710 · Health+6 more — $82,050 · HealthFEEDING IT FORWARD INC — $241,444 · Food & NutritionHANDS ACROSS THE VALLEY INC GEORGE ALTAMURA SR — $40,000 · Food & NutritionNAPA HIGH CHORAL BOOSTERS — $16,000 · EducationTHE NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationNAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationIF GIVEN A CHANCE — $4,000 · EducationSTONE BRIDGE SCHOOL — $3,000 · EducationBLUE OAK SCHOOL — $2,500 · Education10000 DEGREES — $2,000 · EducationPROJECT GRADUATION — $1,500 · Education+1 more — $1,000 · EducationCope Family Center — $40,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$5,163,220Housing & Shelter$4,440,015Human Services$4,012,506Health$1,582,260Food & Nutrition$281,444Education$45,000Crime & Legal$40,000

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetBurbank Housing Corporation — $4,262,015 over 1y, 67% of budgetMENTIS — $1,854,500 over 4y, 24% of budgetQUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $1,304,000 over 4y, 8.8% of budgetON THE MOVE — $909,004 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetMONARCH JUSTICE CENTER — $478,600 over 3y, 91% of budgetShare the Care Napa Valley — $251,000 over 4y, 35% of budgetFEEDING IT FORWARD INC — $241,444 over 4y, 11% of budgetOUR TOWN ST HELENA — $150,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetOLE HEALTH — $125,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCenter for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership — $119,214 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetNEWS — $110,600 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY — $104,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCALISTOGA AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC — $103,000 over 4y, 18% of budgetAmerican Legion Post 113 — $100,000 over 1y, 99% of budgetABODE SERVICES — $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY EDUCATION CENTER INC — $72,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetPuertas Abiertas Community Resource Center — $70,710 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetUPVALLEY FAMILY CENTERS OF NAPA COUNTY — $64,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNAPA VALLEY ART ASSOCIATION — $58,990 over 1y, 64% of budgetMOLLYS ANGELS — $52,302 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetCatholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties — $49,650 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY — $45,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCope Family Center — $40,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetHANDS ACROSS THE VALLEY INC GEORGE ALTAMURA SR — $40,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetCOLLABRIA CARE — $33,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANYON COMMUNITY & PARKS FOUNDATION — $32,500 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetPROGRESS FOUNDATION — $26,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAPA VALLEY MUSEUM — $25,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNAPA COUNTY BICYCLE COALITION — $22,900 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSERENITY HOMES OF NAPA VALLEY — $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNAPA HIGH CHORAL BOOSTERS — $16,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetCommunity Resources for Children — $15,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNAPA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NAPA COMMUNITIES FIREWISE FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAPA COMMUNITY ANIMAL RESPONSE TEAM — $10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetE & M PRESENTS INC — $9,500 over 3y, 7.7% of budgetSt Helena Montessori School Inc — $8,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNAPA VALLEY CHILD ADVOCACY NETWORK INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNAPA VALLEY MUSIC ASSOCIATES — $6,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetWayfinder Family Services — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAPA VALLEY FARMWORKER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINNOVATIVE HEALTH SOLUTIONS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetIF GIVEN A CHANCE — $4,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAL AMANECER BOXING CLUB — $3,938 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSTONE BRIDGE SCHOOL — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE OAK SCHOOL — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAPA COUNTY FAIR ASSOCIATION — $2,500 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Community Foundation …Craig and Kathryn Hal…McNabb FoundationNapa Valley Vintners …Winiarski Family Foun…Syar Foundation Susan…St Joseph Health Nort…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The California Wellne…Community Projects IncThe Woods Charitable …Hands Across the Vall…
Community Foundation of the Napa ValleyCA78.6× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund · Winiarski Family Foundation · Syar Foundation Susan L Syar Director · St Joseph Health Northern California LLC · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Wellness Foundation · Community Projects Inc · The Woods Charitable Foundation · Hands Across the Valley Inc George Altamura Sr

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 Peter a & Vernice H Gasser 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 · 00%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    23report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation 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 209 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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