· Community foundation
Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc
Redwood credit union community fund, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $522,124 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $702,714 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $180,590 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $49k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $165k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY | $300,000 |
| GREEN MUSIC CENTER | $100,000 |
| FIRST RESPONDERS RESILIENCY | $65,000 |
| NAPA VALLEY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MARIN PERFORMING STARS | $12,038 |
| MARIN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION | $12,038 |
| DOGWOOD ANIMAL RESCUE PROJECT | $8,048 |
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 (FY17–22, $4.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 9% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +56% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 4 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $349k 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
- CFCenter for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership2× · 2017–2018 · $1.3M · revenue +289% · 61% of their budget
- LLLA LUZ CENTER2× · 2017–2018 · $900k · revenue +30% · 38% of their budget
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA4× · 2017–2021 · $866k · revenue +67%
Funded once
- CHCALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -12%
PETALUMA HEALTH CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $391k · revenue +95%- SRSANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOLSone grant, 2018 · $300k
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.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…
The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…
Solano Family & Children's Services promotes and advocates for the well-being of children, their families, and child care providers by offering access to a variety of child care resources.
The Mission of Sonoma Ecology Center is to work with our community to enhance and sustain ecological health in the Sonoma valley.
Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.
To improve the health and well-being of our community through evidence-based health practices and innovative programs that advance health equity for all.
To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.
NAMI Sonoma County's mission is to build better lives for individuals and families affected by mental illness throughout Sonoma County by providing education, support, and advocacy.
The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Coast Opportunities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Roadrunner Ridge Community Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
81 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. 81 of the 90 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 UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY ↗
- Who funds Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership ↗
- Who funds LAKE AREA ROTARY CLUB ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LA LUZ CENTER ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA ROSA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN ↗
- Who funds HOPE CRISIS RESPONSE NETWORK INC- HCRN ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PETALUMA HEALTH CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES ↗
- Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS ↗
- Who funds INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Extended Child Care Coalition of Sonoma County ↗
- Who funds INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LUTHER BURBANK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds Sonoma County Grape Growers Foundation ↗
- Who funds Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County ↗
- Who funds BURBANK HOUSING MANAGEMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER NAPA FAIR HOUSING CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Society of St Vincent de Paul District Council of Sonoma County Inc ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds The Jewish Community Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds First Responders Resiliency ↗
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: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · United Way of the Wine Country · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Bothin Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Sonoma Valley Vintners & Growers Foundation · Community Foundation of Mendocino County · East Bay Community Foundation · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund
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 Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc 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.
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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