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Sacramento Steps Forward
The Organization's mission is to ensure that individuals and families experiencing homelessness or the risk of homelessness are able to access housing services and resources on their path to economic stability.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $42k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
- $250k+6 grants · $14M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Shelter Inc | $4,666,931 |
| Lutheran Social Services | $4,411,343 |
| SAEHC | $4,294,898 |
| Lao Family Community Dev | $340,111 |
| Sacramento Cottage Housing | $303,587 |
| My Sisters House | $250,923 |
| Waking the Village | $107,979 |
| Bridging Initiatives Internat | $51,651 |
| Community Link Capital Region | $41,831 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $23.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $201k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- LSLUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA8× · 2017–2024 · $22M · revenue +119%
- GIGoodwill Industries Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $18M · revenue +36%
- VOVOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHERN NEVADA INC7× · 2017–2023 · $18M · revenue +37%
Funded once
- COCOUNTY OF SACRAMENTO VOTER REGISTRATION AND ELECTIONSone grant, 2020 · $884k
- SCSac CTY Dept of Human Assistone grant, 2021 · $476k
- SLSACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $116k · revenue +33%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
San Francisco Network Ministries Housing Corporation works to empower and support women who are experiencing housing instability and sexual exploitation or trafficking, by creating survivor-centered spaces, services advocacy and community…
Welcome Home Housing is a non-profit organization in Sacramento California that provides affordable housing and services to individuals with mental illness.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
City of Refuge Sacramento, a community-based organization, exists to support people living in marginalized communities of Sacramento and to empower their ability to create a personal transformation that will lead to a healthy and thriving…
The Organization's mission is to ensure that individuals and families experiencing homelessness or the risk of homelessness are able to access housing services and resources on their path to economic stability. The Organization is the lead…
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
Mary's Mercy Center reaffirms the dignity of the poor and marginalized by providing food, clothing, and transitional housing to homeless families and individuals.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
IH's programs are grounded in the core components of food, emergency shelter, transitional housing, permanent housing, and rapid re-housing/ homelessness prevention services. Core programming is enriched with wraparound supportive…
The mission of Larkin Street Youth Services is to create a continuum of services that inspires youth to move beyond the street. We will nurture potential, promote dignity, and support bold steps by all.
Hands of Hope works to enhance the quality of life in the Yuba-Sutter area by: Providing core support services to the homeless; Reintegrating the homeless within our community; Engaging the community to respond to the challenge of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridging Initiatives International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries Sacramento Valley & Northern Nevada Inc ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA NORTHERN CALIFORNIA AND NORTHERN NEVADA INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds Next Move Homeless Services ↗
- Who funds SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Sacramento Cottage Housing Inc ↗
- Who funds WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds My Sisters House ↗
- Who funds LAO FAMILY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds WAKING THE VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds BRIDGING INITIATIVES INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Community Link Capital Region ↗
- Who funds FEED SACRAMENTO HOMELESS ↗
- Who funds Carmichael HART (Homeless Assistance Resource Team) ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Dignity Health · Sutter Valley Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Teichert Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · The California Endowment · Shelter Providers of Sacramento Inc · The Blackbaud Giving 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 organization Sacramento Steps Forward 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.
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 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.