California · Community foundation
Placer Community Foundation
The Placer Community Foundation grows local giving to strengthen our community.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 57
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $12,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $180,656
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 110
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $22M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Placer Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 57 | $1.3M | 28% |
| FY2023 | 52 | $1.4M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $838k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $1.3M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 110 | $3.9M | 68% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $650k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $1.2M | 42% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $337k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Feeding the Foothills | $510,417 | 8 | 3% |
| Auburn Trapshooting Club | $500,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce | $463,193 | 3 | 65% |
| Lighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center | $432,300 | 8 | 17% |
| Auburn State Theatre Incorporated | $378,531 | 8 | 33% |
| Gold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc | $375,454 | 8 | 9% |
| The Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA | $359,116 | 8 | 1% |
| Sierra College Foundation | $356,949 | 8 | 6% |
| Advocates for the Mentally Ill Housing Inc | $322,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Placer County | $268,167 | 7 | 8% |
Show all 179 grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($321k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Placer Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 11 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 142 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Armrod Charitable Foundation · Kelly Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sierra Health Foundation · Dieter Family Foundation · Ticket to Dream Foundation · John Mohme Foundation · Lee and Carol Tager Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Placer Community Foundation
- How much does Placer Community Foundation give?
- Placer Community Foundation reported 57 itemized grants totaling $1,290,320, out of $1,477,928 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 110 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Placer Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (17%), Animals (11%), Health (11%).
- Who are Placer Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Feeding the Foothills ($510k), Auburn Trapshooting Club ($500k), Auburn Area Chamber of Commerce ($463k).
- Does Placer Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Placer Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Teichert Foundation, Sutter Valley Hospitals.
- Where is Placer Community Foundation based?
- Placer Community Foundation is based in CA.
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