The Solano Community Foundation connects people, resources, and ideas to strengthen Solano County through grantmaking, nonprofit capacity building, and community philanthropy.
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Public Safety & Disaster$1.4MEducation$634kHuman Services$436kHealth$397kFood & Nutrition$310kPhilanthropy$279kArts & Culture$190kEnvironment$169kOther$0
02beneath the categories
What the grant descriptions say
Themes read from the grant descriptions, beneath the NTEE codes.
Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.
03FY2025 · 11 grants
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
›How this is measured
The 11 grants below total $232,551, the rows itemized in this filing. The $386,916 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $154,365 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
Under $10k2 grants · $12k
$10k–50k8 grants · $171k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$20,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
Recipient
Amount
Medic Keep the Beat Found
$50,000
UC Davis
$40,000
NorthBay Healthcare Foundatio
$22,530
University of Southern CA
$20,000
UCLA UC Regents
$20,000
Oregon State University
$20,000
Catholic Charities CYO
$16,092
UCSF Benioff Childrens Hosp
$16,092
Vallejo Late Night Basketball
$15,837
Sacramento State University
$6,000
San Francisco State Universit
$6,000
02The need
04
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
›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.
77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 29 repeat orgs$454k to everyone else
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +49% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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 its 54 multi-year relationships, 20 repeat the same amount every year (26% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment.
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
›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
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%
›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.
Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; a standing commitment is inferred from a level payment pattern.
What its grantees report
Each stalk is one grantee, graded by how far its own reporting goes: an activity counted, a stated aim, or a change shown.
Of 30 organizations, 1 show a change. The rest report activities or aims.
Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.
›How this is measured
Read from 30 of the 36 organizations it funds across these 5 areas (the most heavily funded), in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.
case studies
Two relationships, up close
One grantee funded repeatedly and one funded once, each traced through its own filings.
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.
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.
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. We date what happened after a grant and do not claim the grant caused it.
04Its field
05the grantee network
98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2016–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
›How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2016 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim. 30 low-confidence matches were suppressed rather than guessed.
5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/98
Grantees still filing
35/98
Grew since first funded
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Human Services$521,634Other$631,170Environment$236,901Education$181,528Health$177,525Food & Nutrition$101,921Youth Development$87,048
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.
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 is one of 20 direct ties among 54 of its grantees, who also cluster around 10 shared regional anchors.
Inferred: ties are read by a model from news and organization websites, and 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 external partner named by both stated inferred
Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations, or start with the strongest ties below.
Ties are extracted by a model from news and organization websites, not from tax filings, so they are directional rather than exhaustive. Corroborated ties 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
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.
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. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Solano Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Solano Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
2024
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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
›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.
