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Save Mart Cares

Contributions to charitable organizations

$537k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$25k
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, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$279kArts & Culture$231kYouth Development$193kHousing & Shelter$130kHuman Services$123kEducation$112kFood & Nutrition$104kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $295,855, the rows itemized in this filing. The $536,755 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $240,900 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $61k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $235k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION$25,000
OAKLAND CHILDRENS FAIRYLAND$10,000
SAFE 2 SCHOOL$10,000
SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS$10,000
Bethlehem Center$10,000
STAN CO OFFICE OF ED$10,000
SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK &$10,000
POVERELLO HOUSE$10,000
CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING$10,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
CALIFORNIA ST UNIVERSITY SACR$10,000
KIDS FIRST-FAMILY COUNSELING$10,000
TURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERCED$10,000
CARE FRESNO$10,000
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:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 45% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%THE AWESOME SPOT: $30k → 12%BREAK THE BARRIERS: $10k → 19%COMMUNITY EDUCATION PARTNERSH: $10k → 10%BREAK THE BARRIERS: $10k → 19%BREAK THE BARRIERS: $10k → 19%CRICKETS HOPE INC: $6k → 15%BREAK THE BARRIERS: $10k → 19%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $25k → 10%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $18k → 10%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $15k → 10%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $15k → 10%MOLLIES HOUSE: $10k → 19%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $15k → 10%MOLLIES HOUSE: $10k → 19%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $15k → 10%JAKARA MOVEMENT: $10k → 19%NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION: $15k → 10%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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$928k · 21 repeat orgs$382k to everyone else

21 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
16

Total granted

$928k
$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $213k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • ND
    NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS
    7× · 2017–2024 · $118k · revenue +61%
  • WE
    WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT
    5× · 2018–2024 · $110k · revenue +61%
  • GC
    GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $90k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • VM
    VALLEY MOUNTAIN REGIONAL CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +147%
  • MN
    MODESTO NEIGHBORHOODS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -55%
  • SC
    SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +93%
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
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. The Organization is the lead…

Human Services
2
Fresno Building Healthy Communities

To foster and encourage thriving communities where all children and families can live healthy, safe, and productive lives

Community Improvement
3
Family Promise of Sacramento

To provide temporary shelter and assistance to homeless families, and also to provide rental assistance in an effort to prevent families from becoming homeless. Program goal is to assist the families in their efforts to become…

Education
4
Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health
5
Bright Futures for Youth

To ignite the potential of youth today for vibrant communities tomorrow. We offer positive experiences, environments and relationships and a foundation for youth to grow, learn and develop into happy, self-sufficient young adults.

Human Services
6
Community Initiatives for Collective Impact

Our mission is to join diverse people, ideas, and resources to address the most pressing social and environmental justice priorities. We believe that the community concerns of Californias San Joaquin Valley (SJV) can only be addressed if…

Community Improvement
7
Yolo Food Bank

The mission of yolo food bank is to make yolo county a thriving community where everyone has the resources they need to experience health, prosperity, and a high quality of life. Yolo Food bank durably increases food and nutrition security…

Food & Nutrition
8
Nourish California

To collaborate with diverse community partners for policy change, ensuring equitable access to food, health, and well-being for all Californians.

Food & Nutrition
9
Sequoia Riverlands Trust

We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.

Environment
10
Family Services of Tulare County Inc

The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…

Human Services
11
CalMatters

Our team of experienced journalists, with the time and resources to dig deep, is committed to meaningfully informing Californians about the players, politics, and interests that shape the issues that affect their lives.

Civil Rights
12
Southwest Fresno Development Corporation

To lift up and restore pride in the sw fresno community through providing pathways to entrepreneurship and homeownership, creating safer, cleaner, and vibrant neighborhoods where residents thrive.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation; the most unlike its peers is Crickets Hope 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

49 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. 49 of the 60 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
29/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $118,000 · Human ServicesNEVADA DIABETES ASSO…Break the Barriers Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesBreak the Barriers I…VALLEY MOUNTAIN REGIONAL CENTER INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesVALLEY MOUNTAIN REGI…FRESH START YOUTH SERVICES INC MOLLIES HOUSE: $19,850 · Human ServicesFRESH START YOUTH SE…Community Education Partnerships: $10,000 · Human ServicesJAKARA MOVEMENT: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,500 · Human ServicesEVERY MONDAY MATTERS INC: $70,000 · Youth DevelopmentEVERY MONDAY MATTE…CAMP TAYLOR INC: $64,500 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP TAYLOR INCFresnoMadera Youth For Christ Inc: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentFresnoMadera Youth…YOUTH UPRISING: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentSan Francisco City Impact: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentGALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $90,000 · Arts & CultureGALLO CENTER FOR T…Habitot Childrens Museum: $50,000 · Arts & CultureHabitot Childrens …CHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $32,500 · Arts & CultureCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC B…TURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK: $17,350 · Arts & CultureTURTLE BAY EXPLORA…PORTERVILLE STRINGS: $14,000 · Arts & CulturePORTERVILLE STRING…SACRAMENTO CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $43,000 · OtherMEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIO…CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK: $30,000 · OtherCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BAN…Boys & Girls Clubs of Stanislaus County: $20,000 · OtherBoys & Girls Clubs of Stani…+25 more: $229,108 · Other+25 moreWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $110,000 · EducationWOMEN'S EMPOWE…CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS FOUNDATION: $27,518 · EducationCALIFORNIA STA…PLEASANTON PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 · EducationPLEASANTON PAR…SCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $10,000 · EducationSCIENCE FROM S…United Way of Stanislaus County: $40,000 · PhilanthropySTANISLAUS COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $24,000 · PhilanthropySECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY: $22,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyMontclair Village Association: $25,000 · Community ImprovementMODESTO NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $15,000 · Community ImprovementMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc: $10,000 · Community ImprovementOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $7,500 · Community Improvement
Human Services$233,350Youth Development$219,500Arts & Culture$213,850Other$322,108Education$167,518Philanthropy$96,000Community Improvement$57,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEVADA DIABETES ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $118,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $110,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetGALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC: $90,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetEVERY MONDAY MATTERS INC: $70,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetCAMP TAYLOR INC: $64,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetHabitot Childrens Museum: $50,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetMEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $43,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetBreak the Barriers Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetUnited Way of Stanislaus County: $40,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCHANNEL 5 PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $32,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetVALLEY MOUNTAIN REGIONAL CENTER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS FOUNDATION: $27,518 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMontclair Village Association: $25,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSTANISLAUS COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $24,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF THE GREATER VALLEY: $22,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Stanislaus County: $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetPLEASANTON PARTNERSHIPS IN EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetFRESH START YOUTH SERVICES INC MOLLIES HOUSE: $19,850 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTURTLE BAY EXPLORATION PARK: $17,350 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMODESTO NEIGHBORHOODS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetSCIENCE FROM SCIENTISTS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Education Partnerships: $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDRENS MUSEUM: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCARE FRESNO INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetFresnos Chaffee Zoo Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOakland Childrens Fairyland Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSafe 2 School: $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetUNITED SAMARITANS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWESTERN NEVADA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJAKARA MOVEMENT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPoverello House: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH UPRISING: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLemoore Christian Aid Inc: $9,925 over 1y, 11% of budgetFoodlink for Tulare County Inc: $7,528 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION HOMEFRONT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF NOTHERN NEVADA INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSan Francisco City Impact: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSacramento Life Center Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTruckee Community Cares: $7,500 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetFood Bank of Northern Nevada Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOWN SYNDROME ASSOCIATION OF CENTRAL CALIFORNIA: $6,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCRICKETS HOPE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 1.6% 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.

Stanislaus Community …Teichert FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…East Bay Community Fo…Sutter Valley Hospita…The California Endowm…Central California Fo…The San Francisco Fou…Enterprise Holdings F…Valley Children's Hos…The Antone and Marie …Union Pacific Foundat…
Stanislaus Community FoundationCA31.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stanislaus Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · The California Endowment · Central California Food Bank · The San Francisco Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Valley Children's Hospital · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Union Pacific 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 Save Mart Cares funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Save Mart Cares. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Save Mart Cares?

    Find your warmest path to Save Mart Cares 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 60 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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