· Private foundation
Sierra Health Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k162 grants · $480k
- $10k–50k83 grants · $1.1M
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $590k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MGMT | $590,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $75,000 |
| COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $50,000 |
| FRESNO COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITIES COMMISSION | $25,000 |
| HOLDING SPACE | $25,000 |
| SACRAMENTO BLACK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SACRAMENTO LITERACY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| SOUTH SACRAMENTO CHRISTIAN CENTER CHURCH | $25,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ASIAN PACIFIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE | $25,000 |
| YOLO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY HEALTH & WELL-BEING INC | $25,000 |
| ASIAN HEALTH SERVICES | $25,000 |
| REGENERATE CALIFORNIA INNOVATION | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $748k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Sierra Health Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.
141 repeat relationships: 100 still active in FY2024, 41 since wound down; 131 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CPCOMMUNITY PARTNERS4× · 2021–2024 · $200k · revenue +73%
- UWUNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION2× · 2023–2024 · $195k · revenue +158%
- MAMUTUAL ASSISTANCE NETWORK OF DEL PASO HEIGHTS3× · 2021–2023 · $113k · revenue +20%
Funded once
SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION CENTER FOR HEALTH PROGRAM MANAGEMENTone grant, 2021 · $2.5M · revenue -19%- SFSOCIAL FINANCEone grant, 2023 · $150k
- FNFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +33%
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.
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.
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How this is measured
331 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. 331 of the 436 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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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.
Open a dossier: Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · The California Endowment · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Physicians' Service Fdn Dba Blue Shield of California Fdn · Dignity Health · Sutter Valley Hospitals · United Way California Capital Region · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Kelly Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sierra Health Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sierra Health Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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