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Setzer Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$220k
Granted FY2024still arriving
49
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$401kEducation$189kArts & Culture$125kRecreation & Sports$124kPublic Safety & Disaster$115kHuman Services$111kFood & Nutrition$80kEnvironment$51kOther$0
02FY2024 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k46 grants · $120k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
YMCA of Superior California$5,000
Yuba Watershed Project Fire Safe Co$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Eagle Mount$5,000
Sacramento Philharmonic Opera$5,000
Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sac$5,000
Sierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Fnd$5,000
Quincy Volunteer Fire Department$3,000
Dobbins Volunteer Fire Department$3,000
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Bright Futures For Youth: $1k → 11%The Friendship Club: $750 → 11%Touch of Understanding: $2k → 6%Plumas Rural Services: $3k → 13%Friendship Club: $500 → 11%Plumas Rural Services: $3k → 13%Environmental Alternatives: $2k → 13%Environmental Alternatives: $2k → 13%Flights to Freedom: $6k → 12%Uplift People of Elk Grove: $2k → 12%Saint Johns Program for Real Change: $9k → 12%Saint Johns Program for Real Change: $9k → 12%Saint Johns Program for Real Change: $8k → 12%Saint Johns Program for Real Change: $8k → 12%YMCA of Superior California: $5k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
NY
MA
NV
WY
PA
NJ
CA
VA
TX
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 81 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

81
92

Total granted

$1.1M
$226k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
0%

Still filing today

46%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • SM
    SUTTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $141k · revenue +17%
  • FT
    Fairytale Town Inc
    4× · 2019–2022 · $100k · revenue +30%
  • FL
    FOOD LITERACY CENTER
    3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • AM
    Aerospace Museum of Californiagraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +33%
  • AS
    AUTISM SPEAKS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -21%
  • TS
    THE SUTTER CLUB FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +167%
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
Sequoia Riverlands Trust

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

Environment
2
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
3
Sierra State Parks Foundation

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…

Recreation & Sports
4
Sustainable Conservation

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…

Environment
5
Truckee Trails Foundation Inc

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,…

Environment
6
California State Firefighters Association

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.

Community Improvement
7
Sutter Buttes Regional Land Trust

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

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8
Sierra Business Council

Catalyze and demonstrate innovative approaches and solutions to increase community vitality, economic prosperity, environmental quality, and social fairness in the Sierra Nevada.

Education
9
Sequoia Parks Conservancy

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.

Environment
10
Sierra Watch

Sierra watch secures conservation outcomes to protect the natural resources, mountain communities, and timeless values of the tahoe sierra.

Environment
11
Sacramento Valley Conservancy

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…

Unclassified
12
Amador Fire Safe Council

Protect the people of amador county and their property from the effects of catastrophic fires through education, cooperation, innovation and action

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Girl Scouts of Northern California; 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.
04the grantee network

78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 190 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
46/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Aerospace Museum: $92,650 · OtherAerospace MuseumAerospace Museum of California: $50,000 · OtherAerospace Museum of CaliforniaCCHAT Center: $31,000 · OtherYuba Watershed Project Fire Safe Co: $28,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $27,500 · Other+150 more: $561,748 · Other+150 moreSUTTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $141,300 · HealthSUTTER MEDICAL CENT…EPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGEL: $45,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION…AUTISM SPEAKS INC: $15,000 · HealthAUTISM SPEAKS INCBetter Life Foundation Inc: $10,500 · Health+7 more: $20,500 · Health+7 moreFairytale Town Inc: $100,000 · Recreation & SportsFairytale…DOBBINS-OREGON HOUSE IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION: $13,000 · Recreation & SportsDOBBINS-O…+1 more: $1,671 · Recreation & SportsFOOD LITERACY CENTER: $75,000 · Food & NutritionCALIFORNIA VEHICLE FOUNDATION: $29,250 · Arts & CultureTHE SUTTER CLUB FOUNDATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $10,500 · Arts & CultureSIERRA GOLD PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,400 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,583 · Arts & CultureSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $32,455 · Human ServicesPlumas Rural Services Inc: $6,000 · Human ServicesFlights To Freedom: $6,000 · Human ServicesYoung Mens Christian Association of Superior California: $5,000 · Human ServicesENVIRONMENTAL ALTERNATIVES: $3,000 · Human ServicesGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesBRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH: $2,250 · Human Services+2 more: $3,500 · Human ServicesCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $24,000 · EnvironmentSacramento Tree Foundation: $6,000 · EnvironmentCALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS: $3,000 · EnvironmentFORESTRY EDUCATORS INCORPORATED: $2,000 · EnvironmentAMERICAN RIVER PARKWAY FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Environment
Other$790,898Health$232,300Recreation & Sports$114,671Food & Nutrition$75,000Arts & Culture$60,733Human Services$60,705Environment$37,000

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 budgetSUTTER MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $141,300 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetFairytale Town Inc: $100,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFOOD LITERACY CENTER: $75,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetAerospace Museum of California: $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF GREATER LOS ANGEL: $45,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE: $32,455 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA VEHICLE FOUNDATION: $29,250 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION: $24,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER SACRAMENTO INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM SPEAKS INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUTTER CLUB FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCAMPTONVILLE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP: $13,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetQUINCY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $13,000 over 5y, 14% of budgetDOBBINS-OREGON HOUSE IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetRIDE TO WALK INC: $12,950 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetBetter Life Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 2y, 9.6% of budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $10,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA FOREST FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPLUMAS COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC: $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEagle Mount: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetButte County Fire Safe Council: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Promise of Sacramento: $6,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetPlumas Rural Services Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSacramento Tree Foundation: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFlights To Freedom: $6,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetPABLOVE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYoung Mens Christian Association of Superior California: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES FOR OUR TROOPS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOdyssey Learning Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPONDYLITIS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA: $4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDouglas County Sheriffs Advisory Council: $3,750 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRunnin For Rhett: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH YUBA RIVER CITIZENS LEAGUE: $3,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSierra Nevada Memorial Hospital Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL ALTERNATIVES: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLUMAS COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE CORPORATION: $3,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA SOCIETY OF AMERICAN FORESTERS: $3,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION: $2,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOZEMAN SYMPHONY SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFETY CENTER INCORPORATED: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR UCP OF GREATER SACRAMENTO: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSIERRA GOLD PARKS FOUNDATION: $2,400 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURES FOR YOUTH: $2,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WYOMING FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORESTRY EDUCATORS INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 2y, 0.6% 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.

  • 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 AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SUTTER CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMPTONVILLE COMMUNITY PARTNERSHIP ↗
  • Who funds QUINCY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
  • Who funds DOBBINS-OREGON HOUSE IMPROVEMENT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIDE TO WALK INC ↗
  • Who funds Better Life Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE CALIFORNIA FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PLUMAS COUNTY FIRE SAFE COUNCIL INC ↗

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.

Teichert FoundationSacramento Region Com…Kelly FoundationSierra Health Foundat…Dignity HealthThe California Endowm…North Valley Communit…California Foundation…Rotary Club of Sacram…Point West Rotary Clu…Pfund Family Foundati…United Way California…
Teichert FoundationCA44.9× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Setzer Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Setzer Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%4%8%15%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
    2get no government money at all
    23report 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.

    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 190 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.

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