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Premier America Credit Union

A cooperative organized for the purpose of promoting thrift and savings amongst its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and providing an opportunity for them to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in order to improve their economic and social conditions. As a…

$462k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Itemized grants FY2024
11
Organizations funded FY2023
27%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$325k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$150,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 11
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$3.4B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Premier America Credit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalYouth 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$325k33%
FY202311$326k27%
FY20226$193k17%
FY20218$158k38%
FY20203$63k33%
FY20192$22k0%
FY20181$17k0%
FY20177$52kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$605kHealth$184kEducation$126kCommunity Improvement$65kYouth Development$52kHuman Services$44kPublic Benefit$27kArts & Culture$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Where it is load-bearing

Premier America Credit Union supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 15 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPremier America Foundation: $558,357 over 6y, 83% of budgetChildren's Miracle Network: $154,320 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia State University Channel Islands Foundation: $92,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNational Credit Union Foundation: $57,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetVentura County Community Development Corporation: $50,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNorthridge Hospital Foundation: $46,816 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetVentura County Library Foundation: $34,200 over 2y, 43% of budgetBoy Scouts of America Ventura County Council: $31,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetReach: $26,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard & Port Hueneme: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWest Houston Assistance Ministries Inc: $19,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Conejo Valley Community Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetThousand Oaks Alliance for the Arts: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCasa Pacifica Centers for Children & Families: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlliance for Community Empowerment Inc: $5,400 over 1y, 0.2% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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.

Ventura County Community FoundationCA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ventura County Community Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Ventura County Credit Union · California Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to Premier America Credit Union?

Find your warmest path to Premier America Credit Union 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.

About Premier America Credit Union

How much does Premier America Credit Union give?
Premier America Credit Union reported 13 itemized grants totaling $325,150, out of $462,112 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Premier America Credit Union fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Health (16%), Education (11%).
Who are Premier America Credit Union's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Premier America Foundation ($558k), Children's Miracle Network ($154k), California State University Channel Islands Foundation ($92k).
Does Premier America Credit Union fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Premier America Credit Union?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ventura County Community Foundation, Weingart Foundation, Ventura County Credit Union.
Where is Premier America Credit Union based?
Premier America Credit Union is based in CA.

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 19 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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