· Public charity
River Cats Foundation Inc
Support of family and youth based in organizations in the greater sacramento, california area.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 3 grants below total $48,601 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $82,905 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,304 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 $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL | $32,851 |
| 916 INK | $8,250 |
| THE GREENHOUSE | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
Color The Block fosters a healthier, more equitable society by providing access to creative, educational, and environmental programs. We operate with the belief that collective action, creative expression, and hands-on learning experiences…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.
The Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; we support health and wellness,advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.
Changing lives every day by maximizing our resources to help people with barriers achieve self-sufficiency.
The New Childrens Museum (the Museum) in San Diego is an arts-based childrens museum whose mission is to stimulate imagination, creativity, and critical thinking in children and families through inventive, engaging experiences with…
The primary exempt purpose of children's healthcare of california includes without limitation the receipt of distributions and grants for the making of distributions and grants to children's hospital of orange county (choc) and to…
We help people turn ideas into community action through information, planning, civic engagement, and advocacy for human needs in the Sacramento region.
Splash offers seven different programs to Elementary aged children and even some for the public. All the programs are designed through a science-based curriculum, to introduce kids to the natural world around them: How interconnected these…
To provide certified residential care and treatment of foster care children placed through county welfare departments under the provision of the california welfare and institutions code
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Northeastern & Central California and the most unlike its peers is 916 Ink. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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.
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 SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Region Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds 916 INK ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds The Greenhouse ↗
- Who funds NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SACRAMENTO INC ↗
- Who funds POWERHOUSE SCIENCE CENTER ↗
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Teichert Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · The California Endowment · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 River Cats Foundation 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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