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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.

$138k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$275kFood & Nutrition$153kHealth$115kArts & Culture$108kHousing & Shelter$100kYouth Development$98kCrime & Legal$73kEducation$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k27 grants · $128k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAC REG FAM JUSTICE CENTER FUND$10,000
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA$5,000
KVIE$5,000
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT$5,000
SACRAMENTO CHORAL SOCIETY$5,000
FAIRYTALE TOWN$5,000
FRIENDS OF FRONT STREET SHELTER$5,000
SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND$5,000
SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME$5,000
WEAVE INC$5,000
ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE$5,000
SACRAMENTO COTTAGE HOUSING INC$5,000
CASA - EL DORADO$5,000
GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION$5,000
SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%EMPOWER YOLO: $3k → 16%ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%ST JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $5k → 12%WELLSPRING WOMENS CENTER: $5k → 12%WELLSPRING WOMENS CENTER: $5k → 12%MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL: $5k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNA: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNA: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNIA: $5k → 12%YMCA OF SUPERIOR CALIFORNA: $3k → 12%MERCY PEDALERS: $3k → 12%MERCY PEDALERS: $3k → 12%MERCY PEDALERS: $3k → 12%MERCY PEDALERS: $3k → 12%MERCY PEDALERS: $3k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.0M · 54 repeat orgs$101k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +73% since the first grant, against +38% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
24

Total granted

$1.0M
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%
+38%

Still filing today

57%
29%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsHousing & ShelterEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WI
    WEAVE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $45k · revenue +73%
  • RC
    RIVER CITY FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +207%
  • SC
    SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME
    8× · 2017–2024 · $40k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • SC
    SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S REC HOME
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sacramento Steps Forward

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…

Human Services
2
Family Promise of Sacramento

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…

Education
3
Sutter Valley Hospitals

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,…

Health
4
Sacramento Region Community Foundation

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.

Philanthropy
5
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
6
Sutter Bay Hospitals

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,…

Health
7
FosterHope Sacramento

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

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8
San Francisco Casa

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…

Civil Rights
9
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc

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…

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10
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

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.

Food & Nutrition
11
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

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.

Human Services
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacramento Loaves & Fishes; 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.
04the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
34/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WEAVE INC: $45,000 · OtherWEAVE INCSACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND: $40,000 · OtherSACRAMENTO CHORAL SOCIETY: $35,000 · OtherSAC REGIONAL FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER: $30,000 · OtherMother Teresa Maternity Home Inc: $30,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUBS SACRAMENTO: $30,000 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF EL DORADO COUNTY: $30,000 · OtherVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN CALI: $30,000 · OtherSACRAMENTO LOAVES FISHES: $27,500 · Other+51 more: $466,000 · Other+51 moreSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $40,000 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO CHIL…SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $40,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOHN'S PR…Young Mens Christian Association of Superior California: $22,500 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Chri…SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $15,000 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO LOAV…Elk Grove Food Bank: $12,500 · Human ServicesElk Grove Food …MERCY PEDALERS INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesMERCY PEDALERS …WELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER: $10,000 · Human ServicesWELLSPRING WOME…+1 more: $2,500 · Human ServicesKVIE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSacramento Cottage Housing Inc: $37,500 · Housing & ShelterSt Joseph Community Land Trust: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterFairytale Town Inc: $35,000 · Recreation & SportsSACRAMENTO AREA YOUTH GOLF: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsRIVER CITY FOOD BANK: $40,000 · Community ImprovementGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $17,500 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $7,500 · HealthMERCY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthWELLSPACE HEALTH: $2,500 · Health
Other$763,500Human Services$155,000Arts & Culture$50,000Housing & Shelter$47,500Recreation & Sports$45,000Community Improvement$40,000Health$32,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWEAVE INC: $45,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER CITY FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSacramento Cottage Housing Inc: $37,500 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetFairytale Town Inc: $35,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetMother Teresa Maternity Home Inc: $30,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetKVIE INC: $25,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Superior California: $22,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC: $20,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildrens Receiving Home of Sacramento: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMy Sisters House: $17,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $17,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetFriends of Front Street Shelter: $15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD LITERACY CENTER: $15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCASA EL DORADO: $15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetElk Grove Food Bank: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY PEDALERS INC: $12,500 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetCITY YEAR INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO AREA YOUTH GOLF: $10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING WOMEN'S CENTER: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSt Joseph Community Land Trust: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budget3STRANDS GLOBAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT: $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO METRO CHAMBER FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Land-Based Learning: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSINGLE MOM STRONG INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWELLSPACE HEALTH: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA FOREVER FAMILIES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmpower Yolo Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds WEAVE INC ↗
  • Who funds RIVER CITY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
  • 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 CAPITAL PUBLIC RADIO FDBA KXPR/KXJZ INC ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento ↗
  • Who funds GLAUCOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds My Sisters House ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Front Street Shelter ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
  • Who funds FOOD LITERACY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds CASA EL DORADO ↗
  • Who funds Elk Grove Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds MERCY PEDALERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO AREA YOUTH GOLF ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA63.2× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Pfund Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pfund Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Pfund Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pfund Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 80 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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