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· Public charity
RIVER CATS FOUNDATION INC
Distribution to qualifying youth and family based section 501(c)(3) organizations in the greater sacramento area
$83k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
1
Communities
$33k
Largest
01What you fund
0186% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Human Services$363kPhilanthropy$25kHealth$13kArts & Culture$11kEducation$8kYouth Development$8kOther$70k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
advance
2019
wish
2021
museumbaseball
2022
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2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $16k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
$8,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$112k
Total assets
Largest grants
- MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL$32,851
- 916 INK$8,250
- THE GREENHOUSE$7,500
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $363k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your 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.
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Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of
The Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce advocates for and supports economic success of its members and the six-county capital region by leading the effort to grow and retain business.
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2
California Life Sciences Association
Advance ca life sciences ecosystem by advocating public policies & supporting businesses.
Community Improvement
3
Central California Food Bank
Distribute food to the hungry in fresno, madera, tulare, kern and kings county.
Food & Nutrition
4
California Water Data Consortium
The California Water Data Consortium is an independent, nonprofit organization created by a partnership of state agencies and others to ensure that Californians have access to the best possible water and ecological information to make…
Science & Tech
5
County Supervisors Association of Calif
To represent county government before the california legislature, administrative agencies and support county government.
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6
The Climate Center
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Education
7
Children's Council of San Francisco
Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.
Human Services
8
Disability Rights California
Drc defends, advances, and strengthens the rights & opportunities of people with disabilities.
Civil Rights
9
Children's Home Society of California
See schedule o the mission of children's home society of california is to provide children, families, and communities with supportive services to thrive.
Human Services
10
Goodwill Industries Sacramento Valley &
To provide life-changing services to our community
Employment
11
California Hotel & Lodging Association
CH&LA operates to protect the rights and interest of the California lodging industry. Legislative advocacy, educational training, communication, and cost-savings programs are provided for all segments of the industry. Supports strategic…
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12
Senior Life Resources Northwest
To preserve and enhance the quality of life at home, with dignity and care.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Northeastern & Central and the most unlike its peers is United Cerebral Palsy Association of. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$362,561Other$69,740Philanthropy$25,000Health$12,500Arts & Culture$11,216Education$8,250Youth Development$7,500
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 (MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL) ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RECEIVING HOME OF SACRAMENTO ↗
- Who funds SAC REGIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 916 INK ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF SACRAMENTO ↗
- Who funds THE GREENHOUSE ↗
- Who funds NEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds UCP OF SACRAMENTO & NORTHERN CA ↗
- 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.
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA18× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift 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 organisation 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: THE GREENHOUSE.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 300116551 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on THE GREENHOUSE, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 2% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to River Cats Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to River Cats Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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