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· Public charity
SONOMA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
To support sonoma county's economic development collaborative's programs
$1.0M
Granted FY2024
5
Grants
1
Communities
$952k
Largest
01What you fund
0180% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2024.
Education$999kArts & Culture$218kPhilanthropy$39kYouth Development$13kHuman Services$7kOther$324k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
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2020
—
2021
creative
2022
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2023
art education
2024
art education
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 5 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $32k
- $250k+1 grant · $952k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$971k
Total assets
Largest grants
- SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE$952,305
- WAUGH SCHOOL DISTRICT$8,000
- OLD ADOBE UNIFIED SCH DIST$8,000
- GEYSERVILLE UNIFIED$8,000
- HEALDSBURG UNIFIED SCH DIST$8,000
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
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Sonoma Valley Museum of Art
The Sonoma Valley Museum of Art builds community around art.
Arts & Culture
2
Sonoma County Family Ymca
The ymca enhances the lives of all through programs designed to develop spirit,(see schedule o) mind and body. this is based on our belief that positive, lasting personal and social change comes from working together through investing in…
Human Services
3
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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4
Southern California Public Radio
Noncommercial educational public radio production and broadcasting.
Arts & Culture
5
Museum of Sonoma County
The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.
Arts & Culture
6
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
7
Sonoma Community Center
SCC exists to enrich the lives of the people of Sonoma Valley by fostering a broad range of cultural, educational, recreational and community service activities in an affordable space as well as helping to preserve and restore our historic…
Human Services
8
Silicon Valley Visual Arts
Our mission is to support and promote the visual arts as a vital ingredient of the unique and diverse society of the bay area. we help both emerging and professional artists connect with other artists and art lovers throughout the bay…
Arts & Culture
9
Sueno Latino of Anderson Valley
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10
Sonoma County Community Architectural
Public outreach and educational programming including but not limited to the field of architecture and related fields of engineering, design, construction, leadership, mentorship, business, and marketing. To provide portfolio opportunity…
Membership Benefit
11
Menlo School
Establish and operate as an educational institution for the education of young men and women.
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12
Solano Community Foundation
The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sonoma County Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is California Poets in the Schools. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
12 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$999,205Other$324,200Arts & Culture$218,000Philanthropy$39,000Youth Development$12,500Human Services$6,500
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 SANTA ROSA JUNIOR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Economic dev & Financing Co ↗
- Who funds Community Fdn of Sonoma Co ↗
- Who funds Art Escape ↗
- Who funds The Imagine Bus Project ↗
- Who funds California Poets in the Schoo ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls-Central Sonoma ↗
- Who funds Latino Services Provider ↗
- Who funds California Parenting Institut ↗
- Who funds Luther Burbank Memorial Found ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Sonoma ↗
- Who funds DeMeo Teen Club 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.
Sonoma County Community FoundationCA34.7× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Sonoma County Community Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · United Way of the Wine Country · Marin Community Foundation · Redwood Credit Union Community Fund · Bothin Foundation · McNabb Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Speedway Children's Charities · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund
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 organisation SONOMA COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Economic dev & Financing Co.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~50 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +82% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 680346089 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Economic dev & Financing Co, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 50 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 16% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Sonoma County Economic Development?
Find your warmest path to Sonoma County Economic Development through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines