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SACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS
SACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS together organizes to create a more just and fair community for everyone in the sacramento region, with a particular focus on communities of color that have experienced historical discrimination and disinvestment.
$148k
Granted FY2024
3
Grants
1
Communities
$49k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 73% of SACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02FY2024 · 3 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
$49,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
- INLAND CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR$49,250
- ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION$49,250
- TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK$48,800
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.
show:
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13% — the area typically sits at 10%. 99% of your 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 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.
62%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$369k · 3 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +199% since the first grant, against +81% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
3
23
Total granted
$369k
$230k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+199%
+81%
Still filing today
100%
17%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Community ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterReligionArts & CultureOther
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
- ICINLAND CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR2× · 2023–2024 · $123k · revenue +264%
- OCORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION2× · 2023–2024 · $123k · revenue +125%
- TNTRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK2× · 2023–2024 · $123k · revenue +199%
Funded once
- SRST ROSE CATHOLIC CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $14k
- 1B1ST BAPTIST CHURCH OF DPHone grant, 2020 · $14k
- NCNEW CREATION CHURCH ARDENone grant, 2020 · $14k
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.
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Sacramento Neighborhood Housing
To improve and restore district-wide neighborhoods for the benefit of the residents.
Housing & Shelter
2
CalMatters
To improve Californias democracy by making its government more transparent and accountable and giving Californians the information they need to understand and engage with that government.
Civil Rights
3
Make Housing Affordable - Yes On Prop 10
Support ballot measures and policies to address the state of california's housing and homeless crisis by creating affordable housing
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4
California Urban Partnership
The California Urban Partnership builds economic security in communities of color through policy research, education and organizing community action.
Community Improvement
5
Catalyst San Gabriel Valley Incorporated
We specialize in helping activate local congregations to become active stakeholders in the cities they worship in.
Human Services
6
Housing California Inc
The organization is based in sacramento, california, and brings together a diverse, cross-sector network to prevent and end homelessness, increase the supply of safe, stable, affordable homes, and reverse the legacy of racial and economic…
Human Services
7
Statewide California Coalition
The New California Coalition (NCC) is a forward-thinking organization with a bold mission: to identify and implement solutions that will pave the way for enduring, generational change in Sacramento and across the entire state of California.
Public Benefit
8
Sacramento Valley Organizing Community
SVOC forms alliances with various religious and community organizations located in the Northern California counties of Sacramento, Solano and Yolo, in order to organize and promote efforts for the employment, health and welfare,…
Education
9
Altadena Community Church
Altadena Community Church is a faith-based religious organization operating as a non-profit organization with faith aligned with United Church of Christ.
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10
California Odd Fellows Foundation
The foundation was formed to provide HUD Housing for quality and safe living for very low income citizens.
Housing & Shelter
11
North Bay Human Development
Own and operate a low-income housing project
Housing & Shelter
12
City Advance
Build local church unity & collaboration.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Congregation Community and the most unlike its peers is Christ Temple Apostolic Church. 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, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.
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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$439,650Community Improvement$123,050Religion$12,000Arts & Culture$10,000Education$7,000Housing & Shelter$7,000
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 INLAND CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION ↗
- Who funds TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CHRIST TEMPLE APOSTOLIC CHURCH ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE ADVOCATES OF SACRAMENTO ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA - MAIN ↗
- Who funds LIFE MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA - MAIN ↗
- Who funds UNITY OF SACRAMENTO ↗
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.
Network for GoodDC4.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Network for Good · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 SACRAMENTO AREA CONGREGATIONS 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
’20’21’22’23’24
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, FY20–24
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.
05Through 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: ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~15 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.3× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 953196836 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 ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION, 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 15 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 10% 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 Sacramento Area Congregations?
Find your warmest path to Sacramento Area Congregations 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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