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Pfund 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 $10k27 grants · $128k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SAC REG FAM JUSTICE CENTER FUND | $10,000 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA | $5,000 |
| GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WELLSPRING WOMENS CENTER | $5,000 |
| WEAVE INC | $5,000 |
| SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| KVIE | $5,000 |
| SACRAMENTO COTTAGE HOUSING INC | $5,000 |
| CHRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF FRONT STREET SHELTER | $5,000 |
| FAIRYTALE TOWN | $5,000 |
| RIVER CITY FOOD BANK | $5,000 |
| SHRINER'S HOSPITAL SACRAMENTO | $5,000 |
| CASA FOR CHILDREN - SACRAMENTO | $5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB - EL DORADO | $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, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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.
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 +74% since the first grant, against +38% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- WIWEAVE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +103%
- SCSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +108%
SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- SSSTANFORD SIERRA YOUTH FAMILY SERVICone grant, 2022 · $5k
- SSSACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +79%
- SMSINGLE MOM STRONG INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +40%
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 Organization's mission is to ensure that individuals and families experiencing homelessness or the risk of homelessness are able to access housing services and resources on their path to economic stability. The Organization is the lead…
To provide temporary shelter and assistance to homeless families, and also to provide rental assistance in an effort to prevent families from becoming homeless. Program goal is to assist the families in their efforts to become…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To provide certified residential care and treatment of foster care children placed through county welfare departments under the provision of the california welfare and institutions code
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento is the local, independent affiliate of Habitat for Humanity International. We are locally governed, raise funds, and build locally in Sacramento and Yolo CountiesFounded in 1985, Habitat for…
To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
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,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Loaves & Fishes and the most unlike its peers is Mercy Pedalers 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.
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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 80 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 WEAVE INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds Fairytale Town Inc ↗
- Who funds Mother Teresa Maternity Home Inc ↗
- Who funds KVIE INC ↗
- Who funds Young Mens Christian Association of Superior California ↗
- Who funds Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC ↗
- Who funds My Sisters House ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds FOOD LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Friends of Front Street Shelter ↗
- Who funds CASA EL DORADO ↗
- Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
- Who funds Elk Grove Food Bank ↗
- Who funds MERCY PEDALERS 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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Kelly Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Taylor-Meyer Family Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dignity Health · Ed and Betty Manoyan Foundation · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Safe Credit Union
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 Pfund 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
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% 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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