How much does Safe Credit Union give?

Safe Credit Union reported 9 itemized grants totaling $139,013, out of $254,099 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Safe Credit Union fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (14%), Employment (12%).

Who are Safe Credit Union's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aerospace Museum of California ($226k), ProjectAttain ($175k), University of California Davis ($146k).

Does Safe Credit Union fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Safe Credit Union?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Teichert Foundation, Kelly Foundation.

Where is Safe Credit Union based?

Safe Credit Union is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Safe Credit Union

Safe Credit Union's purpose statement is building financial freedom. Safe believes in financial freedom. This belief drives our commitment to serving members with knowledge and opportunities to build financial freedom.

$254k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 9
Itemized grants FY2025: 8
Organizations funded FY2024: 38%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $139k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $20,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 8 to 24; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $4.4B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 38% of the organizations Safe Credit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 42% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthEmploymentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	9	$139k	56%
FY2024	8	$144k	38%
FY2023	14	$225k	29%
FY2022	24	$343k	50%
FY2021	17	$282k	29%
FY2020	17	$301k	47%
FY2019	13	$214k	31%
FY2018	11	$214k	27%

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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 2025.

Education$487kArts & Culture$299kEmployment$254kHealth$248kCommunity Improvement$206kHuman Services$127kRecreation & Sports$120kYouth Development$78kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Aerospace Museum of California	$225,750	9	4%
ProjectAttain	$175,000	7	46%
University of California Davis	$146,000	6	n/a
Los Rios Colleges Foundation	$125,700	4	1%
Folsom Community Development Corporation	$90,000	8	7%
Sacramento County Office of Education	$86,725	8	n/a
Sacramento Area Youth Golf	$74,575	7	2%
Saint John's Program for Real Change	$66,900	4	0%
Children's Miracle Network	$65,300	4	0%
Kvie Inc	$63,055	2	0%

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All grantees of Safe Credit Union by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Aerospace Museum of California	$225,750	9	4%
ProjectAttain	$175,000	7	46%
University of California Davis	$146,000	6	n/a
Los Rios Colleges Foundation	$125,700	4	1%
Folsom Community Development Corporation	$90,000	8	7%
Sacramento County Office of Education	$86,725	8	n/a
Sacramento Area Youth Golf	$74,575	7	2%
Saint John's Program for Real Change	$66,900	4	0%
Children's Miracle Network	$65,300	4	0%
Kvie Inc	$63,055	2	0%
Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce	$50,000	1	2%
Sierra College Foundation	$43,500	2	1%
Air Force Association	$40,000	4	n/a
Junior Achievement of Sacramento Inc	$40,000	2	7%
Impact Foundry	$38,500	4	2%
Sutter Medical Center Foundation	$32,000	2	0%
Keaton's Child Cancer Alliance	$31,750	2	3%
Volunteers of America Northern California and Northern Nevada Inc	$30,000	2	n/a
Soil Born Farm Urban Agriculture Project	$30,000	2	1%
City Year Inc	$30,000	2	0%
The University Foundation at Sacramento State	$27,500	2	0%
The Uc Davis Foundation	$25,000	2	0%
American Heart Association Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Foster Youth Education Fund	$25,000	2	9%
Serotonin Surge Charities Co John Chuck	$22,500	2	4%
Improve Your Tomorrow Inc	$22,500	1	0%
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services	$21,800	1	0%
Women's Empowerment	$20,000	1	1%
River City Food Bank	$20,000	1	0%
Hope Healthy Outcomes for Personal Enrichment Counseling	$20,000	1	n/a
City of Refuge Sacramento	$20,000	1	1%
Redwood Credit Union	$20,000	1	0%
Zion Girls Leadership and Collegiate Preparatory Academy	$20,000	1	n/a
Treat 'Em Like a King	$20,000	1	4%
California Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce Foundation	$20,000	1	n/a
Hacker Lab Edu	$20,000	1	11%
Health Education Council	$20,000	1	0%
Sacramento Neighborhood Housing Services Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Allegiant Giving Corporation	$20,000	1	12%
National Credit Union Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
United Way California Capital Region	$19,013	3	0%
Cyber Proud Inc	$18,650	1	65%
Rebuilding Together Sacramento	$15,000	1	1%
Mercy Foundation	$10,912	1	0%
Shriners Hospitals for Children	$10,300	1	0%
Sacramento Veterans Employer Resource Group Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Fairytale Town Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Sacramento Stand Down Association Inc	$10,000	2	9%
Wellspring Women's Center	$10,000	1	1%
PRO Youth and Families	$10,000	1	1%
STANFORD YOUTH SOLUTIONS dba STANFORD SIERRA YOUTH & FAMILIES	$10,000	1	0%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Sacramento Area Inc	$10,000	1	2%
Casa El Dorado	$10,000	1	1%
Yolo Crisis Nursery	$10,000	1	0%
SPOA 1849 Foundation	$10,000	1	5%
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc	$8,000	1	0%
Capital Airshow Group	$7,500	1	0%
Sacramento Downtown Partnership Inc	$7,000	1	0%

Safe Credit Union supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 50.

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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 Community FoundationCA54.2× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Sierra Health Foundation · Umpqua Bank Charitable Foundation · Pfund Family Foundation · The California Endowment · Dignity Health · Western Health Advantage · United Way California Capital Region

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.

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About Safe Credit Union

How much does Safe Credit Union give?: Safe Credit Union reported 9 itemized grants totaling $139,013, out of $254,099 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Safe Credit Union fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Arts & Culture (14%), Employment (12%).
Who are Safe Credit Union's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Aerospace Museum of California ($226k), ProjectAttain ($175k), University of California Davis ($146k).
Does Safe Credit Union fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Safe Credit Union?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sacramento Region Community Foundation, Teichert Foundation, Kelly Foundation.
Where is Safe Credit Union based?: Safe Credit Union is based in CA.