· Public charity
Sonoma County Economic Development Board Foundation
To support sonoma county's economic development board programs
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–18, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.
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…
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…
The sonoma country day school mission is to bring learning to life through the guiding principles of engagement, relationship, integrity, creativity and contribution.
Sonoma valley film society produces the annual international film festival
Education
To inspire curiosity and creativity in children through joyful, transformative experiences.
Teen services sonoma engages and supports teens with work-readiness skills and experiences, and job placement and career coaching services that empower them to succeed.
The mission of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Manteca and Lathrop is to inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Our Club provides a safe,…
The Center for the Arts is a cultural and educational organization that promotes and presents the literary, visual and performing arts for the enrichment of the community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latino Service Providers 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.
12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Economic Development and Financing Corporation Inc ↗
- Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTESCAPE ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE BUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds California Poets in the Schools ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA-MARIN ↗
- Who funds LUTHER BURBANK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SONOMA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds LATINO SERVICE PROVIDERS ↗
- Who funds California Parenting Institute ↗
- 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.
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 Inc · Bothin Foundation · McNabb Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Trione Foundation · Resnick Foundation · Speedway Children's Charities
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 Sonoma County Economic Development Board 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.
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.
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Find your warmest path to Sonoma County Economic Development Board Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.