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River Cats Foundation Inc

Support of family and youth based in organizations in the greater sacramento, california area.

$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$33k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$426kPhilanthropy$25kYouth Development$16kHealth$13kArts & Culture$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kScience & Tech$5k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 3 grants below total $48,601, the rows itemized in this filing. The $82,905 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $34,304 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $33k
$8,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$112k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL$32,851
916 INK$8,250
THE GREENHOUSE$7,500
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $6k → 12%MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL: $88k → 12%MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL: $72k → 12%MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL: $58k → 12%SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES (MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL): $56k → 12%MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL: $49k → 12%MUSTARD SEED SCHOOL: $33k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Color the Block

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…

Arts & Culture
2
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
3
Children's Hospital Los Angeles

Promotion and advancement of children's health through patient care, research, and education.

Health
4
Sacramento Lgbt Community Center

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.

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5
Goodwill Industries Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada Inc

Changing lives every day by maximizing our resources to help people with barriers achieve self-sufficiency.

Employment
6
The New Childrens Museum

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…

Arts & Culture
7
Children's Healthcare of California

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…

Health
8
Community Link Capital Region

We help people turn ideas into community action through information, planning, civic engagement, and advocacy for human needs in the Sacramento region.

Human Services
9
Sacramento Splash

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…

Education
10
FosterHope Sacramento

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

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11
Children's Council of San Francisco

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…

Human Services
12
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Northeastern & Central California; 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.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $356,561 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES+1 more: $6,000 · Human ServicesChildrens Receiving Home of Sacramento: $69,740 · OtherChildrens Recei…Sacramento Region Community Foundation: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $7,500 · HealthUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SACRAMENTO INC: $5,000 · HealthNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC: $6,216 · Arts & CulturePOWERHOUSE SCIENCE CENTER: $5,000 · Arts & Culture916 INK: $8,250 · EducationThe Greenhouse: $7,500 · Youth Development
Human Services$362,561Other$69,740Philanthropy$25,000Health$12,500Arts & Culture$11,216Education$8,250Youth Development$7,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES: $356,561 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetChildrens Receiving Home of Sacramento: $69,740 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSacramento Region Community Foundation: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget916 INK: $8,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Greenhouse: $7,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetNEGRO LEAGUES BASEBALL MUSEUM INC: $6,216 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF GREATER SACRAMENTO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOWERHOUSE SCIENCE CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Sacramento Region Com…Kelly FoundationTeichert FoundationUnited Way California…The California Endowm…Morgan Stanley Global…Charities Aid Foundat…American Online Givin…Paypal Charitable Giv…Network for GoodThe Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA19.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization River Cats Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from River Cats Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to River Cats Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to River Cats Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 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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