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Sacramento Area Congregations Together at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Sacramento Area Congregations Together

Raise the quality of life for residents in sacramento.

$148k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Religion$151kCivil Rights$133kCommunity Improvement$123kPublic Benefit$123kHousing & Shelter$17kHuman Services$14kArts & Culture$12kCrime & Legal$12kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$49,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION$49,250
INLAND CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR$49,250
TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK$48,800
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VIDA FAMILY CHURCH: $7k → 6%ORANGE COUNTY COGREGATION: $74k → 10%TRANSFORMATION CHURCH: $12k → 12%INLAND CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR: $74k → 14%TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK: $74k → 18%ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION: $49k → 10%THE VILLAGE ADVOCATES OF SACRAMENTO: $12k → 12%INLAND CONGREGATIONS UNITED FOR: $49k → 14%TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK: $49k → 18%CAPITOL CITY SDA: $7k → 12%LIFE MATTERS INC: $7k → 12%ST ROSE CATHOLIC CHURCH: $7k → 12%CHRIST TEMPLE APOSTOLIC CHURCH: $12k → 12%MUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA - MAIN: $10k → 12%MUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA - MAIN: $7k → 12%MORNING STAR CHSC: $12k → 12%UNITY OF SACRAMENTO: $7k → 12%ST STEPHEN AFRICAN METHODIST: $12k → 12%CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP MINISTRY: $7k → 12%1ST BAPTIST CHIRCH OF DPH: $7k → 12%CATHEDRAL OF THE BLESSED: $12k → 12%MINISTERIO KAIROS: $9k → 12%MURPH-EMMANUEL AME CHURCH: $7k → 12%PARKSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH UCC: $12k → 12%OUR LADY OF QUADALUPE PARISH: $7k → 12%ST PETER & ALL HALLOWS PARISH: $12k → 12%MASJID AS-SABUR SACRAMENTO: $7k → 12%COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC: $10k → 12%ST PHILOMENE PARISH: $7k → 12%NEW CREATION CHURCH ARDEN: $7k → 12%FUTURE COMMUNITY CHURCH: $7k → 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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$369k · 3 repeat orgs$223k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
24

Total granted

$369k
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+37%

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.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’23’24
Community ImprovementEducationHousing & ShelterReligionArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • OC
    ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $123k · revenue +63%
  • IC
    Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $123k · revenue -40%
  • TN
    TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK
    2× · 2023–2024 · $123k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • FC
    FUTURE COMMUNITY CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $14k
  • PO
    PASTOR OF CATHEDRAL OF THE BLESSED SACRAMENT PARISH - SACRAMENTO
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
  • PO
    PASTOR OF ST PETER-ALL HALLOWS PARISH SACRAMENTO A CORPORATION SO
    one grant, 2021 · $12k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
The Sacramento United Methodist Union

To Provide Mission To United Methodist Churches.

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2
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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3
Unitarian Universalist Justice Ministry of California

The unitarian universalist legislative ministry, ca is a statewide justice ministry that cultivates and connects leaders and communites to empower the public voice of those who share uu values and principles

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4
California Human Trafficking Investigators and Prosecuters Asso
Crime & Legal
5
California Hazara Community

Helping the Hazara Community with their cultural and heritage beliefs.

Arts & Culture
6
City to City Socal

To build a network of christian individuals, communities, churches and ministries in the city of los angeles and the surrounding area that supports, engages and trains people in the areas of mercy, justice, and church planting.

Philanthropy
7
Unite Oregon Action

unite oregon action works across urban and rural divides to build a unified political, intercultural movement for justice in oregon. we are led by people of color, immigrants and refugees, rural communities, and people experiencing poverty.

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8
Interfaith Council of Amador

Provide food,clothing,and household survival materials to bona-fide needy individuals in amador county california

Human Services
9
Citizens for Affordable Housing a Coalition of Nonprofit Housing Adv

To oppose Measure C proposed to voters of the City of Sacramento on the November 3, 2020, ballot.

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10
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
11
California Council for Veterans Affairs

To provide transitional shelter to homeless female veterans and their minor children.

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12
California Black Power Network Action Fund

Promote social welfare thru political policy

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Orange County Congregation Community Organization; 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 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. 10 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc: $123,050 · OtherInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee IncTRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK: $122,600 · OtherTRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK+20 more: $187,000 · Other+20 moreORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $123,050 · Community ImprovementORANGE COUNTY CONGREGAT…CHRIST TEMPLE APOSTOLIC CHURCH: $12,000 · ReligionCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA: $10,000 · Arts & CultureLife Matters Inc: $7,000 · EducationMUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS SACRAMENTO MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$432,650Community Improvement$123,050Religion$12,000Arts & Culture$10,000Education$7,000Housing & Shelter$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 budgetORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION: $123,050 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetInland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc: $123,050 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK: $122,600 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetCHRIST TEMPLE APOSTOLIC CHURCH: $12,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMUTUAL HOUSING CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLife Matters Inc: $7,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS SACRAMENTO MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITY OF SACRAMENTO: $7,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

  • Who funds ORANGE COUNTY CONGREGATION COMMUNITY ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds Inland Congregations United for Change Sponsoring Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds TRUE NORTH ORGANIZING NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds CHRIST TEMPLE APOSTOLIC CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds VILLAGE ADVOCATES OF SACRAMENTO ↗
  • Who funds MUTUAL HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds COUNCIL ON AMERICAN-ISLAMIC RELATIONS CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds Life Matters Inc ↗
  • Who funds MUTUAL HOUSING CALIFORNIA FORMERLY KNOWN AS SACRAMENTO MUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITY OF SACRAMENTO ↗

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 Food Bank …Network for GoodAmazonsmile Foundation
Sacramento Food Bank & Family ServicesCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Network for Good · 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 Sacramento Area Congregations Together funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sacramento Area Congregations Together. Bigger dots raise more.

2022
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%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
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–24
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sacramento Area Congregations Together?

    Find your warmest path to Sacramento Area Congregations Together 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 27 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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