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Placer Community Foundation

The Placer Community Foundation grows local giving to strengthen our community.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
57
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$181k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% 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$2.0MAnimals$1.3MHealth$1.3MPhilanthropy$993kArts & Culture$991kEducation$950kYouth Development$926kCommunity Improvement$753kOther$0
02FY2024 · 57 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 57 grants below total $1,290,320, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,477,928 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $187,608 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $86k
  • $10k–50k40 grants · $761k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $443k
$12,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Auburn Community Foundation$180,656
Gold Country Wildlife Rescue$154,091
Cal Poly Foundation$55,000
Auburn Symphony$53,590
Placer Artist Tour$47,800
Cntr for Nonprofit Leadership$44,526
Latino Leadership Council$38,000
Lighthouse Counceling FRC$33,000
Placer SPCA$32,100
Blue Line Arts$30,680
Placer Land Trust$30,500
Sierra Native Alliance$30,500
Auburn State Theatre$28,130
Boys & Girls Club of Placer$26,950
Stand Up Placer$25,100
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, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRIDE Industries: $10k → 6%Uplift Family Services: $10k → 8%Stanford Youth Solutions: $10k → 12%Down Syndrome Info Alliance: $10k → 6%Seniors First: $143k → 6%Lilliput Childrens Services: $28k → 12%Wayfinder Family Services: $10k → 14%American Red Cross: $17k → 12%Seniors First: $37k → 6%American Red Cross: $10k → 12%Seniors First: $12k → 6%Seniors First: $12k → 6%Seniors First: $11k → 6%Healing Pastures Inc: $10k → 6%A Touch of Understanding: $19k → 6%A Touch of Understanding: $11k → 6%Placer LGBTQ Center: $13k → 6%Sierra Community Med Found: $10k → 6%The Gathering Inn: $21k → 6%Supporting the Taylor House: $20k → 6%The Gathering Inn: $11k → 6%Lighthouse Counceling FRC: $233k → 6%Lighthouse Counceling FRC: $91k → 6%Lighthouse Counceling FRC: $33k → 6%Lighthouse Counceling FRC: $30k → 6%Lighthouse Counceling FRC: $18k → 6%HOPE Healthy Outcomes: $45k → 6%Lighthouse Counceling FRC: $10k → 6%Lighthouse Counceling FRC: $10k → 6%The Forgotten Soldier Prog: $33k → 6%The Unity Care Group: $30k → 6%Adv for Metally Ill Housing: $300k → 6%Placer People of Faith: $66k → 6%Placer People of Faith: $59k → 6%Native Alliance of the Sierra: $54k → 6%Native Alliance of the Sierra: $39k → 6%Child Advocates of Placer: $36k → 6%Sierra Native Alliance: $31k → 6%Blossom Place: $22k → 6%Child Advocates of Placer: $20k → 6%Placer People of Faith: $19k → 6%Child Advocates of Placer: $19k → 6%Child Advocates of Placer: $16k → 6%Native Alliance of the Sierra: $16k → 6%Child Advocates of Placer: $15k → 6%Adv for Metally Ill Housing: $12k → 6%Placer People of Faith: $12k → 6%Child Advocates of Placer: $11k → 6%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.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
NY
OR
IN
CA
UT
CO
NE
HI
TX
FL
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 79 repeat orgs$2.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +78% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

79 repeat relationships: 41 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
92

Total granted

$8.2M
$2.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+21%

Still filing today

85%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $334k 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 ServicesAnimalsEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • FT
    FEEDING THE FOOTHILLS
    8× · 2017–2024 · $510k · revenue +73%
  • AA
    AUBURN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
    3× · 2020–2022 · $463k · revenue +107% · 65% of their budget
  • LC
    Lighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center
    8× · 2017–2024 · $432k · revenue +108%

Funded once

  • AT
    AUBURN TRAPSHOOTING CLUB
    one grant, 2018 · $500k · revenue +9%
  • SH
    Shriners Hospital for Childre
    one grant, 2018 · $198k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    one grant, 2020 · $130k
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
Homeless Resource Council of the Sierras

To lead, collaborate, coordinate, develop, and implement strategies and resources to end homelessness in Nevada and Placer counties.

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2
Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights
3
Foothill Dog Rescue of the Sierras

Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…

Animals
4
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

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5
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
6
El Dorado County Humane Society

Care for shelter animals, provide public with free spay/neuter services, educational outreach.

Animals
7
Housing Trust Placer Inc

To provide financing and services that will increase the opportunities available for lower income households to obtain decent, safe, and sanitary affordable housing in Placer County, California, by including various sectors of the economy…

Housing & Shelter
8
High Sierra Animal Rescue Inc

High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…

Animals
9
Placer Community Foundation

The Placer Community Foundation grows local giving to strengthen our community.

Philanthropy
10
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
11
California Alliance of Caregivers

California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…

Health
12
Literacy Support Council of Placer County

Supporting Placer County Library's free literacy program (adult literacy, family literacy) for 35 years. Literacy Support Council provides advocacy, volunteers, books, and other materials that help lift literacy skills throughout Placer…

Unclassified
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Casa of Placer Yuba and Sutter; the most unlike its peers is William Jessup University. 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

159 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. 159 of the 192 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.

12
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
57
Early backer (in before they grew)
153/159
Grantees still filing
117/159
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUBURN TRAPSHOOTING CLUB: $500,000 · OtherAUBURN TRAPSHOOTING CLUBAUBURN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $463,193 · OtherAUBURN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCEGold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc: $375,454 · OtherGold Country Wildlife Rescue IncBoys and Girls Club of Placer County: $268,167 · OtherSTAND UP PLACER INC: $245,088 · OtherShriners Hospital for Childre: $198,005 · OtherAuburn State Theatre Incorporated: $378,531 · OtherAuburn State Theatre IncorporatedPLACER LAND TRUST: $241,676 · Other+104 more: $3,048,458 · Other+104 moreLighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center: $432,300 · Human ServicesLighthouse Counse…Advocates for the Mentally Ill Housing Inc: $322,000 · Human ServicesAdvocates for the…SENIORS FIRST INC: $241,160 · Human ServicesSENIORS FIRST INCPLACER PEOPLE OF FAITH TOGETHER: $154,899 · Human ServicesPLACER PEOPLE OF …NATIVE ALLIANCE OF THE SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS: $149,468 · Human ServicesNATIVE ALLIANCE O…CASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter: $132,450 · Human ServicesCASA of Placer Yu…+20 more: $444,181 · Human Services+20 moreTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST: $697,310 · PhilanthropyTHE US CH…Auburn Community Foundation: $180,656 · PhilanthropyAuburn Co…HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $38,000 · PhilanthropyALLEGIANT GIVING CORPORATION: $35,000 · Philanthropy+3 more: $50,262 · PhilanthropyLatino Leadership Council Inc: $184,000 · HealthGRANITE WELLNESS CENTERS: $113,386 · HealthHEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL: $88,000 · HealthSIERRA FOOTHILLS AIDS FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthHEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC: $85,000 · HealthSierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation: $77,500 · HealthKEATON'S CHILD CANCER ALLIANCE: $67,500 · HealthINSIGHTS COUNSELING GROUP: $48,500 · HealthWELLNESS WITHIN CORPORATION: $30,000 · Health+5 more: $86,400 · HealthSierra College Foundation: $356,949 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $125,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $103,400 · EducationSIGHT WORD BUSTERS: $76,236 · EducationFuture Foundation of Sacramento Inc: $45,000 · Education+10 more: $153,486 · EducationThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA: $359,116 · AnimalsHorses' Honor: $105,000 · AnimalsKitten Central of Placer County Inc: $81,715 · AnimalsLeaps & Bounds Rabbit Rescue Inc: $54,000 · AnimalsFOSTERS & PAWS: $52,000 · AnimalsANIMAL SPAY AND NEUTER A NONPROFIT CLINIC: $43,700 · AnimalsFieldHaven Feline Center: $42,964 · AnimalsTeaching Everyone Animals Matter: $42,000 · Animals+7 more: $75,788 · AnimalsFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $510,417 · Food & NutritionAUBURN INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET INC: $210,311 · Food & NutritionCOMPASSION PLANET: $56,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$5,718,572Human Services$1,876,458Philanthropy$1,001,228Health$865,286Education$860,071Animals$856,283Food & Nutrition$776,728

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE US CHARITABLE GIFT TRUST: $697,310 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $510,417 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetAUBURN AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $463,193 over 3y, 65% of budgetLighthouse Counseling and Family Resource Center: $432,300 over 8y, 17% of budgetAuburn State Theatre Incorporated: $378,531 over 8y, 33% of budgetGold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc: $375,454 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA: $359,116 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetSierra College Foundation: $356,949 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetAdvocates for the Mentally Ill Housing Inc: $322,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetBoys and Girls Club of Placer County: $268,167 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetSTAND UP PLACER INC: $245,088 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetPLACER LAND TRUST: $241,676 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetSENIORS FIRST INC: $241,160 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetAUBURN INTERFAITH FOOD CLOSET INC: $210,311 over 8y, 8.2% of budgetLatino Leadership Council Inc: $184,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetAUBURN CIVIC SYMPHONY: $182,013 over 7y, 10% of budgetAuburn Community Foundation: $180,656 over 1y, 13% of budgetCENTER FOR NONPROFIT LEADERSHIP OF THE SIERRA: $157,026 over 6y, 63% of budgetPLACER PEOPLE OF FAITH TOGETHER: $154,899 over 4y, 66% of budgetNATIVE ALLIANCE OF THE SIERRA NEVADA FOOTHILLS: $149,468 over 5y, 8.7% of budgetBLUE LINE ARTS: $142,005 over 8y, 7.2% of budgetCASA of Placer Yuba and Sutter: $132,450 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetKidsFirst Child Abuse Prevention Council of Placer County: $128,370 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRANITE WELLNESS CENTERS: $113,386 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHorses' Honor: $105,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $103,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLACER FAMILY HOUSING NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION: $100,750 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY ROSEVILLE AREA CONFERENCE INC: $92,667 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetProject Go Inc: $89,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHEALTH EDUCATION COUNCIL: $88,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSIERRA FOOTHILLS AIDS FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetHEARTSTRINGS COUNSELING INC: $85,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetKitten Central of Placer County Inc: $81,715 over 6y, 14% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF GREATER PLACER: $78,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetSierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation: $77,500 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSIGHT WORD BUSTERS: $76,236 over 7y, 21% of budgetKEATON'S CHILD CANCER ALLIANCE: $67,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCOMPASSION PLANET: $56,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetMERCY HOUSING CALIFORNIA: $55,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRECREATE: $54,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetPLACER ARTISTS TOUR: $52,900 over 2y, 36% of budgetFOSTERS & PAWS: $52,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetSIERRA MENTAL WELLNESS GROUP: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $50,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetPLACER COUNTY LAW ENFORCEMENT CHAPLAINCY: $50,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetINSIGHTS COUNSELING GROUP: $48,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCRISIS INTERVENTION SERVICES DBA SIERRA COMMUNITY HOUSE: $45,500 over 3y, 0.5% 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.

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 Com…Teichert FoundationSutter Valley Hospita…Armrod Charitable Fou…Kelly FoundationCalifornia Foundation…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Sierra Health Foundat…Dieter Family Foundat…Ticket to Dream Found…John Mohme FoundationLee and Carol Tager F…
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA102.4× affinity58 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 · 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
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 Placer Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Placer Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    41report 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
    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.

    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 192 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 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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