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S G Foundation at a glance

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S G Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$4.8M
Granted FY2021
18
Grants FY2021
9
States reached
$81k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Employment$4.9MPhilanthropy$3.8MInternational$150kEducation$91kHealth$26kReligion$20kCommunity Improvement$11kHousing & Shelter$10kOther$0
02FY2021 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 18 grants below total $338,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $4,818,836 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $4,480,336 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 · FY2021

  • Under $10k4 grants · $17k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $241k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $81k
$11,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Amigos de Santa Cruz$80,500
Global Pediatric Alliance$35,000
Association for a More Just Society$30,000
Amextra$25,000
Cooperative for Education$25,000
CREA$25,000
KORE Foundation$20,000
MAIA$20,000
Praxis$11,000
New Horizons Foundation USA$10,000
Partners in Housing Solutions$10,000
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara$10,000
Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur Generalate$10,000
Hands Up for Haiti$10,000
El Pozo de la Vida$9,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SEE ATTACHED - ALL PUBLIC NOT RELAT: $792k → 14%SEE ATTACHED - ALL PUBLIC NOT RELAT: $788k → 14%SEE ATTACHED - ALL PUBLIC NOT RELAT: $756k → 14%SEE ATTACHED - ALL PUBLIC NOT RELAT: $737k → 14%SEE ATTACHED - ALL PUBLIC NOT RELAT: $486k → 14%SEE ATTACHED - ALL PUBLIC NOT RELAT: $462k → 14%SEE ATTACHED - ALL PUBLIC NOT RELAT: $443k → 14%SEE ATTACHED - ALL PUBLIC NOT RELAT: $399k → 14%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
Foundation for Argentinean Development
Philanthropy
2
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
3
Multinational Exchange for Sustainable a Mesa andor Mesa Inc

MESA connects and cultivates sustainable farmers and food systems leaders around the world.

Education
4
Semilla Nueva

We are dedicated to providing real impact for those that need it most. We aim to improve the incomes of hundreds of thousands of farming families and the nutrition of millions.

International
5
Mariposa Dr Foundation

To support and promote education and empowerment programs in the Dominican Republic children and young adults, especially girls. (Continued on Schedule O) We promote health and education improvements, opportunities for achieving…

Human Services
6
Peoples Consultants

The mission of the Peoples Consultants is to provide material and intellectual support to communities organizations and individuals from developing countries to enable them to satisfy and protect their basic human rights such as good…

International
7
Partnership for Participatory International Policy

Partnership for Participatory International Policy coordinates opportunities for elected officials, staff and community leaders to learn from people impacted by US foreign policies and practices. We do this by organizing delegations to…

Civil Rights
8
Speak Up for the Poor

Speak Up exists to transform the world on behalf of the poor. Our mission is to create a new reality for girls in poverty. We work toward this goal through educational programs support of safe homes and practical legal work.

International
9
Paema

Paema is dedicated to preventing and ending mass atrocities by amplifying the integral role of community-entered solutions. we work with local communities in sudan, drc, burma and bangladesh to establish and sustain relationships to drive…

International
10
Planet Wise Solutions

Planet Wise Solutions provides culturally appropriate co-created technologies with indigenous communities in the rainforest regions of Chiapas and Oaxaca Mexico. Our primary focus is the implantation of high efficiency clean cookstoves,…

International
11
New Dawn Guatemala

New Dawn Guatemala is a Seattle-based grassroots organization that works to promote equitable, ecologically friendly development and educational advancement in the rural Guatemalan community of Nuevo Amanecer (New Dawn in English) and the…

International
12
Strategies for International Development

Strategies for International Development (SID) develops, applies, and promotes better methods for eradicating rural poverty. We help small farmers make the transition from subsistence to successful commercial farming. We carryout programs…

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Association for a More Just Society -Us; the most unlike its peers is Amextra Inc. 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

12 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. 12 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $80,500 · EducationAMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATIONCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $25,000 · EducationCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATIONAMEXTRA INC: $25,000 · OtherAMEXTRA INCCREA: $25,000 · OtherCREASISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR GENERALATE: $10,000 · OtherSISTERS OF NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR GE…PARTNERS IN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC: $10,000 · OtherPARTNERS IN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INCHands Up for Haiti: $10,000 · OtherHands Up for HaitiSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $10,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA B…El Pozo de la Vida: $9,000 · OtherEl Pozo de la Vida+2 more: $1,000 · OtherASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US: $30,000 · InternationalASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUS…KORE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · InternationalKORE FOUNDATION INCMAIA: $20,000 · InternationalMAIANEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION-USA: $10,000 · InternationalNEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION-US…Global Pediatric Alliance: $35,000 · Arts & CultureGlobal Pedi…Praxis Inc: $11,000 · ReligionSANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE: $7,000 · Crime & Legal
Education$105,500Other$100,000International$80,000Arts & Culture$35,000Religion$11,000Crime & Legal$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAMIGOS DE SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $80,500 over 1y, 13% of budgetGlobal Pediatric Alliance: $35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR A MORE JUST SOCIETY -US: $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR EDUCATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKORE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMAIA: $20,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPraxis Inc: $11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN HOUSING SOLUTIONS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HORIZONS FOUNDATION-USA: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetSANTA BARBARA COUNTY SHERIFF'S BENEVOLENT POSSE: $7,000 over 1y, 6.4% 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.

The Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Ayco Charitable FoundationNY11.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 S G Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from S G Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
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no gov · 00%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
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    How do I get to S G Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to S G Foundation 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 18 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $443k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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