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Sequoia Farm Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$16k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$7.5MPublic Safety & Disaster$4.2MEducation$263kFood & Nutrition$129kPhilanthropy$75kEnvironment$44kInternational$16kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$15,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$44M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HALO TRUST$15,500
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 (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%COMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SOUTHERN ARI: $129k → 15%ARIZONA LAW ENFORCEMENT AIR SUPPORT: $185k → 18%NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY: $80k → 23%HALO TRUST: $16k → 14%IL LAW ENFORCEMENT TRAINING STANDAR: $95k → 11%PUBLIC SAFETY PROPERTIES FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 15%SKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: $14k → 15%SAN SIMON FFA: $45k → 18%PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING FOUNDATION: $320k → 15%PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING FOUNDATION: $229k → 15%HOWARD G BUFFETT FOUNDATION: $75k → 15%FARMERS YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $75k → 15%PUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING FOUNDATION: $20k → 15%ICAT TRAINING FOUNDATION: $7.1M → 15%MACON CO PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $2.7M → 15%DECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $108k → 15%CENTRAL IL REGIONAL DISPATCH CTR: $30k → 15%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 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
Pasco Police Foundation
Crime & Legal
2
Farming for the Future Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The Foundation for Agricultural Integrit
Philanthropy
4
Arizona Site Steward Program Foundation
Education
5
Criminal Justice Policy Foundation
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6
Staunton Police Foundation
Crime & Legal
7
Farmor Foundation
—
8
Air Products Foundation
—
9
Burleson Police Foundation

Provide training and supplies to the Burleson Police Department

Public Benefit
10
Dallas Police Helicopter Foundation
Public Safety & Disaster
11
Salinas Police Foundation

To provide community programs which support law enforcement and crime prevention needs for the community of SalinasTo provide training and equipment for the Police Department of the City of Salinas, California.

Crime & Legal
12
Environmental Stewardship Foundation
Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Decatur Public Schools Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Public Safety Properties Foundation. 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 16 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ICAT TRAINING FOUNDATION: $7,065,494 · Crime & LegalICAT TRAINING FOUNDATION+1 more: $185,309 · Crime & LegalMACON CO PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATION: $2,657,143 · OtherMACON CO PUBLIC SAFETY FOUNDATIONPUBLIC SAFETY PROPERTIES FOUNDATION: $1,011,303 · OtherPUBLIC SAFETY PROPERTIES FOUNDATION+5 more: $383,009 · Other+5 morePUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING FOUNDATION: $569,077 · Public Safety & DisasterDECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $107,758 · EducationFARMERS YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $74,900 · EducationCommunity Food Bank Inc: $129,159 · Food & NutritionHOWARD G BUFFETT FOUNDATION: $75,200 · PhilanthropyTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $15,500 · InternationalSKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: $13,835 · Environment
Crime & Legal$7,250,803Other$4,051,455Public Safety & Disaster$569,077Education$182,658Food & Nutrition$129,159Philanthropy$75,200International$15,500Environment$13,835

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetICAT TRAINING FOUNDATION: $7,065,494 over 1y, 98% of budgetPUBLIC SAFETY PROPERTIES FOUNDATION: $1,011,303 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetPUBLIC SAFETY TRAINING FOUNDATION: $569,077 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetARIZONA LAW ENFORCEMENT AIR SUPPORT: $185,309 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Inc: $129,159 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDECATUR PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $107,758 over 1y, 15% of budgetHOWARD G BUFFETT FOUNDATION: $75,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARMERS YOUTH EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $74,900 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $15,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKY ISLAND ALLIANCE: $13,835 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sequoia Farm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sequoia Farm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    04Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Sequoia Farm Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sequoia Farm Foundation 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 16 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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