Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Public Safety & Disaster$1.4MEducation$634kHuman Services$436kHealth$397kFood & Nutrition$310kPhilanthropy$279kArts & Culture$190kEnvironment$169kOther$0
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.
03FY2024 · 17 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $493,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $519,505 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $26,405 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
$10k–50k14 grants · $247k
$50k–250k3 grants · $247k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
Recipient
Amount
Sustainable Solano
$135,000
UC Davis
$61,500
UC Santa Barbara
$50,000
NorthBay Healthcare Foundatio
$25,410
University of Alabama
$25,000
Biola University
$22,500
UCLA UC Regents
$22,500
Harvard University
$20,000
UC Berkeley
$20,000
Catholic Charities CYO
$18,150
UCSF Benioff Childrens Hosp
$18,150
Solano Community College
$15,500
Meals on Wheels Solano Co
$14,250
Salvation Army Kroc Center
$14,250
BPO Elks Lodge
$10,890
02The need
04
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.
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.
03Your edge
The orgs you fund vs the ones you don’t
You fund broadly across your community, and the organizations you back tend to be less fragile than the rest.
As a community foundation you fund inclusively across the local sector, established institutions and newer efforts alike. Even so, the organizations you back are less fragile than comparable nonprofits nearby that you don't fund.
The kind of organization you back
44% of the organizations you back live mainly on donations, against 29% of the comparable nonprofits nearby you don’t fund. The ones you pick show fewer of the warning signs below than the field you don’t fund.
What they work on
Human Services30% vs 10%
Youth Development7% vs 2%
The nearby nonprofits you don’t fund are concentrated in Recreation & Sports, Animals, Arts & Culture.
How they hold up
Run recurring deficits49% vs 39%
you fund (43) you don’t (262)· share of each group
You fund (43)You don’t (262)
Median size (revenue)$180k$195k
Operating margin1%4%
Financially fragile72%69%
Comparison vs unfunded, size/cause-matched nonprofits in your county. Association, not proof of cause.
repeat funding
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.
77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 29 repeat orgs$454k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
Of your 54 multi-year relationships, 20 repeat the same amount every year (26% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment. The rest vary year to year. Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; this is inferred from the payment pattern.
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
29
36
Total granted
$1.5M
$401k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+49%
+12%
Still filing today
93%
89%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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
SS
SUSTAINABLE SOLANO
4× · 2018–2024 · $227k · revenue +266%
MO
MEALS ON WHEELS OF SOLANO COUNTY
6× · 2017–2024 · $113k · revenue +112%
CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES CYO OF THE ARCHDIOCESE OF SAN FRANCISCO
6× · 2017–2024 · $104k · revenue +60%
Funded once
SI
SHELTER INCgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +71%
NETWORK FOR GOOD
one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -30%
RV
RIO VISTA CAREgraduated
one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +67%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Activities, outputs, outcomes
Most can say what their work is for. Few can show it changed. Click an area to step through it.
Of 30 organizations, 1 show a change. The rest report what they did, or only what they hope it’s for.
Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.
Read from 30 of the 36 organizations you fund across these 5 areas— those you fund most heavily — in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.
case studies
Two relationships, up close
One you funded repeatedly and one you funded once, each traced through its own filings and the public record.
SP
SPARROW PROJECT
Conviction
Sustained funder; revenue declining since
Solano Community Foundation backed Sparrow Project four times between 2017 and 2022, contributing a total of $120,844 — representing roughly 44% of the organization's revenue on a smoothed basis across those years. Since the funding period, Sparrow Project's revenue has declined at a 15% compound annual rate, and the organization carries recurring deficits and shrinking net assets. As of 2025, it continues to operate, providing midday meals five days a week plus Sunday evening and Saturday early-morning meals, distributing Food Bank and grocery store surplus items, and offering shower and laundry services by appointment.
Solano Community Foundation made a single $25,000 grant to Shelter Inc. in 2020, at a point when it represented a negligible share of the organization's revenue. Since that grant, Shelter Inc.'s revenue has grown 71%, at a 15% compound annual rate. As of 2024, the organization owns and master-leases affordable rental units, provides interim and permanent housing through a Housing First model, and delivers one-on-one case management, employment services, mental health counseling, and financial assistance to homeless individuals and families.
Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source, not a return on these grants: we date what happened after a grant, and do not claim the grant caused it.
04Your field
Your grantees are a median of 25 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 8% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
8%
12/152
the rest of the field
15%
9,640/62,769
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.
05the grantee network
98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2016–2025.
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. 30 low-confidence matches were suppressed rather than guessed.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2016–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/98
Grantees still filing
35/98
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Human Services$521,634Other$631,170Environment$236,901Education$181,528Health$177,525Food & Nutrition$101,921Youth Development$87,048
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.
Fighting Back Partnership co-hosted a Youth Connection Resource Fair with Broken by Violence to provide resources and support to young people affected by violence. It’s one of 20 direct ties among 54 of your grantees, who also cluster around 10 shared regional anchors.
Ties are read from news and organization websites, so they’re directional, not exhaustive; each links to its source.
54
Grantees connected
20
Grantee↔grantee ties
10
Shared anchors (2+ grantees)
181
External links
Tap any organization to trace its collaborations — shared anchors pull toward the center
41 shown · 28 ties
grantee you fund external partner named by both stated inferred
Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations — or start with the strongest ties below.
Partnerships are LLM-extracted from news and organization websites, not from tax filings — directional, not exhaustive. Each edge links to its source; corroborated edges were named independently by both organizations.
Cause groups: Arts & Culture, Civil Rights, Crime & Legal, Education, Environment, Food & Nutrition, Health, Housing & Shelter, Human Services, Philanthropy, Public Safety & Disaster, Unclassified, Youth Development
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.
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA52.1× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
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 Solano Community 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
26report 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
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.
