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Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc

Redwood credit union community fund, inc.

$703k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$6.3MHuman Services$4.5MCommunity Improvement$2.0MHealth$1.6MFood & Nutrition$642kArts & Culture$399kHousing & Shelter$318kEducation$281kYouth Development$104kOther$4.9M
02FY2024 · 7 grants

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
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

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.

show:

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.

area typical 9%NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITES: $471k → 18%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $30k → 10%NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITES: $210k → 18%NORTH BAY CHILDREN'S CENTER: $125k → 8%RAISE & SHINE NON-PROFIT: $10k → 18%COMMUNITY CHILDCARE COUNCIL OF SONOMA: $175k → 9%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES: $50k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION NAPA VALLEY: $50k → 9%PETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES: $28k → 8%DISABILITY SERVICES & LEGAL CENTER: $50k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $63k → 9%TLC CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $750k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $150k → 9%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $35k → 9%VINTAGE HOUSE: $50k → 9%CHILD PARENT INSTITUTE: $25k → 9%CALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT: $500k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE: $300k → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE: $298k → 9%EXTENDED CHILD CARE COALITION OF SONOMA COUNTY: $287k → 9%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $270k → 9%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $6k → 9%SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH: $6k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

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.

Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 90% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$15M · 21 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
62

Total granted

$15M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+67%
+56%

Still filing today

90%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $349k 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 ServicesHealthPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CF
    Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership
    2× · 2017–2018 · $1.3M · revenue +289% · 61% of their budget
  • LL
    LA LUZ CENTER
    2× · 2017–2018 · $900k · revenue +30% · 38% of their budget
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA
    4× · 2017–2021 · $866k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • CH
    CALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $500k · revenue -12%
  • PETALUMA HEALTH CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $391k · revenue +95%
  • SR
    SANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $300k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Sonoma Botanical Garden
2
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
3
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
4
Homes for California Dba Homes for Sonoma

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…

Housing & Shelter
5
Solano Community Foundation

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…

Philanthropy
6
Solano Family & Childrens Council Inc

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.

Human Services
7
Sonoma Ecology Center

The Mission of Sonoma Ecology Center is to work with our community to enhance and sustain ecological health in the Sonoma valley.

Environment
8
Community Housing Sonoma County

Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.

Housing & Shelter
9
Northern California Center for Well-Being

To improve the health and well-being of our community through evidence-based health practices and innovative programs that advance health equity for all.

Health
10
Council on Aging Services for Seniors

To enhance the quality of life for our aging community by providing services that promote wellbeing and maintain independence.

11
Nami Sonoma County

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.

12
Court Appointed Special Advocates

The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.

Civil Rights

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 FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr13%4%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr21%33%20–35yr15%30%35–55yr12%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr13%1%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr21%21%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr12%48%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/90
the rest of the field
11%
608/5,775

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.

05the grantee network

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 20172025, 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
27
Early backer (in before they grew)
80/81
Grantees still filing
54/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

UNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY — $5,038,500 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRYHOPE CRISIS RESPONSE NETWORK INC- HCRN — $545,078 · PhilanthropyHOPE CRISIS RESPONSE NETWORK INC-…GRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES — $350,000 · PhilanthropyGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGR…INDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK — $300,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $95,000 · PhilanthropyCenter for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership — $1,269,138 · OtherCenter for Volunteer & Nonpro…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN — $550,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-…VOLUNTEER CENTER OF SONOMA COUNTY — $400,000 · OtherVOLUNTEER CENTER OF SONOMA CO…SANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOLS — $300,000 · OtherSANTA ROSA CITY SCHOOLSCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS — $300,000 · OtherCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESSVINTAGE HIGH SCHOOL — $284,692 · OtherSONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY — $250,000 · OtherNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $250,000 · OtherLUTHER BURBANK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $239,183 · Other+32 more — $1,729,596 · Other+32 moreLA LUZ CENTER — $900,000 · Human ServicesLA LUZ CENTERCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA — $866,174 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF TH…NORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INC — $680,664 · Human ServicesNORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIE…CALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $500,000 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA HUMAN DEVELOP…THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $313,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJ…Extended Child Care Coalition of Sonoma County — $286,965 · Human ServicesExtended Child Care Coal…INDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $282,519 · Human ServicesINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA …Community Child Care Council of Sonoma County — $175,000 · Human Services+11 more — $528,000 · Human Services+11 moreLAKE AREA ROTARY CLUB ASSOCIATION — $1,092,145 · Community ImprovementLAKE AREA …COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY — $800,000 · Community ImprovementCOMMUNITY …+3 more — $104,000 · Community ImprovementSANTA ROSA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $594,925 · HealthPETALUMA HEALTH CENTER INC — $390,806 · HealthWEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $200,000 · HealthHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY — $100,000 · HealthThe Jewish Community Free Clinic — $100,000 · HealthFirst Responders Resiliency — $85,000 · HealthAmbulatory Surgery Access Coalition — $74,000 · Health+4 more — $89,120 · HealthREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $441,782 · Food & NutritionSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation — $200,000 · Food & NutritionCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY — $300,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER — $64,500 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $34,676 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$6,328,578Other$5,572,609Human Services$4,532,322Community Improvement$1,996,145Health$1,633,851Food & Nutrition$641,782Arts & Culture$399,176

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF THE WINE COUNTRY — $5,038,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership — $1,269,138 over 2y, 61% of budgetLAKE AREA ROTARY CLUB ASSOCIATION — $1,092,145 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetLA LUZ CENTER — $900,000 over 2y, 38% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA — $866,174 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY — $800,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetNORTH COAST OPPORTUNITIES INC — $680,664 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSANTA ROSA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS — $594,925 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN — $550,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $441,782 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetVOLUNTEER CENTER OF SONOMA COUNTY — $400,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetPETALUMA HEALTH CENTER INC — $390,806 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES — $350,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $313,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCOMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS — $300,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetINDIVIDUAL & FAMILY SUPPORT NETWORK — $300,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF SONOMA COUNTY — $300,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetExtended Child Care Coalition of Sonoma County — $286,965 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetINDIVIDUALS NOW INC DBA SOCIAL ADVOCATES FOR YOUTH — $282,519 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION — $250,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLUTHER BURBANK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $239,183 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWEST COUNTY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSonoma County Grape Growers Foundation — $200,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetBURBANK HOUSING MANAGEMENT CORPORATION — $175,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetGREATER NAPA FAIR HOUSING CENTER — $168,194 over 1y, 21% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF SONOMA COUNTY — $150,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetNORTH BAY CHILDRENS CENTER INC — $125,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY — $104,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetSANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY — $100,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetThe Jewish Community Free Clinic — $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetNAPA VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $97,800 over 1y, 19% of budgetFirst Responders Resiliency — $85,000 over 3y, 4.1% of budgetLITERACYWORKS — $85,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetPETALUMA PEOPLE SERVICES CENTER — $78,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MENDOCINO COUNTY — $75,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetLittle League Inc - Rincon Valley — $74,791 over 1y, 26% of budgetAmbulatory Surgery Access Coalition — $74,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNATIONAL INDIAN JUSTICE CENTER — $64,966 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA INDIAN MUSEUM & CULTURAL CENTER — $64,500 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma County — $55,000 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN CREDIT UNION COALITION — $52,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY HORSE COUNCIL — $50,000 over 1y, 52% of budgetALLIANCE MEDICAL CENTER INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVintage House Multi Purpose Senior Center — $50,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetDisability Services & Legal Center — $50,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BOARD FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Sonoma County Community FoundationCA108.9× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    34report 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, FY2025

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to Redwood Credit Union Community Fund Inc 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 90 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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