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Setzer Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k46 grants · $120k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sutter Medical Center Foundation | $60,000 |
| Food Literacy Center | $25,000 |
| Epilepsy Foundation Los Angeles | $15,000 |
| Saint John's Program for Real Chang | $9,000 |
| Flights to Freedom | $6,000 |
| CCHAT Center | $6,000 |
| Sacramento Philharmonic Opera | $5,000 |
| Eagle Mount | $5,000 |
| YMCA of Superior California | $5,000 |
| Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Fnd | $5,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sac | $5,000 |
| Yuba Watershed Project Fire Safe Co | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| Butte County Fire Safe Council | $3,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
81 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 16 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k 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
- SMSUTTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $141k · revenue +17%
- FTFairytale Town Inc4× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +30%
- FLFOOD LITERACY CENTER3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +3%
Funded once
- AMAerospace Museum of Californiagraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +33%
- TSTHE SUTTER CLUB FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +167%
- ASAUTISM SPEAKS INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -21%
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.
We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.
The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.
The Sierra State Parks Foundation provides critically needed financial and professional support to the Lake Tahoe-Donner Sierra State Parks for Education, Restoration, and Cultural and Environmental Preservation in partnership with…
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
We are dedicated to ensuring our members a strong and united voice in the evolution of the Fire Service through unity in leadership political action education and quality member services.
The Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust works to protect and conserve agricultural lands, open space, and wildlife habitat in Yuba, Sutter, and Colusa counties for the benefit of current and future generations
Catalyze and demonstrate innovative approaches and solutions to increase community vitality, economic prosperity, environmental quality, and social fairness in the Sierra Nevada.
The sequoia parks conservancy funds and enables projects and programs that protect, preserve, and provide access to the natural and cultural resources of sequoia and kings canyon national parks.
Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.
The primary purpose of the organization is the preservation, protection, aquisition, and/ or enhancement of land in its natural, scenic, historical, agricultural, forested and open space condition in the greater sacramento valley…
Protect the people of amador county and their property from the effects of catastrophic fires through education, cooperation, innovation and action
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Northern California and the most unlike its peers is Sacramento Pioneer Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
77 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. 77 of the 190 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 SUTTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Fairytale Town Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD LITERACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds Aerospace Museum of California ↗
- Who funds EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGEL ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA VEHICLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SACRAMENTO INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUTTER CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds DOBBINS-OREGON HOUSE IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAMPTONVILLE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds QUINCY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds RIDE TO WALK INC ↗
- Who funds CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Better Life Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CALIFORNIA FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLUMAS COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ↗
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: Teichert Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Dignity Health · The California Endowment · North Valley Community Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Rotary Club of Sacramento Foundation · Point West Rotary Club Foundation · Pfund Family Foundation · United Way California Capital Region
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 Setzer Foundation 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.