· Community foundation
Sonora Area Foundation
Strengthens its community through assisting donors, making grants, and providing leadership.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $137k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $580k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $797k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Sierra Bible Church | $103,500 |
| Cornerstone Bible Church | $100,000 |
| Sierra Repertory Theater | $88,250 |
| Interfaith | $85,450 |
| San Joaquin County Office of Educat | $84,737 |
| Columbia College Foundation | $82,000 |
| Sierra Senior Providers | $73,734 |
| Sonora High School | $69,750 |
| Watch Resources Inc | $54,835 |
| Central Sierra Search and Rescue | $54,771 |
| County of Tuolumne | $42,555 |
| Foothill Pregnancy Center | $39,150 |
| Center for a Non Violent Community | $33,878 |
| UC Berkeley Foundation | $32,700 |
| Columbia Union School District | $29,297 |
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 (FY17–24, $610k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +12% since the first grant, against -6% for those funded once.
59 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 21 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SRSIERRA REPERTORY THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $486k · revenue +30%
- ICINTERFAITH COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $450k · revenue +78% · 33% of their budget
- YSYOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION OF TUOLUMNE COUNTY2× · 2021–2023 · $302k · revenue +6% · 34% of their budget
Funded once
- SFSymons Family Fundone grant, 2022 · $153k · revenue -41% · 45% of their budget
- BDBIG DREAMS UNIVERSALLY ACCESSIBLEone grant, 2019 · $115k
- WOWORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP INCone grant, 2021 · $85k
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
Friends of Tulare County is dedicated to promoting the safety, health, and well-being of all residents of Tulare County and strives to assist underrepresented and disadvantaged populations of all ethnicities and cultures through donations,…
At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.
Commitment to the prosperity of tulare county by shaping and steering the workforce development system.
To provide health care for retired k-9 deputies. educate the public in the roll k-9 deputies play in law enforcment
Living Gods love by inspiring health, wholeness and hope.
Animal rescue of abandoned cats and dogs
To protect and preserve natural habitat, open space, and agriculture for people and wildlife that promotes groundwater and environmental sustainability to preserve the farming economy of the southern san joaquin valley for future…
How this is measured
79 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. 79 of the 129 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
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.
- Who funds SIERRA REPERTORY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH COMMUNITY SOCIAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds YOUTH SPORTS FOUNDATION OF TUOLUMNE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Columbia College Foundation ↗
- Who funds RESILIENCY VILLAGE ↗
- Who funds Sonora Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Sonora ↗
- Who funds Sierra Senior Providers Inc ↗
- Who funds WATCH RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Symons Family Fund ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF TUOLUMNE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILL PREGNANCY CENTER ↗
- Who funds MOTHER LODE CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Center for a Non Violent Community ↗
- Who funds SPIRITUAL ROADS INC ↗
- Who funds KEITH DALE WANN POST NO4748 VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS OF THE USA ↗
- Who funds SIERRA WALDORF SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE ANIMAL COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN TUOLUMNE COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Idaho State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds AMADOR TUOLUMNE COMMUNITY RESOURCES ↗
- Who funds Nancys Hope Community Closet ↗
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: Irving J Symons Foundation · Sonora Community Hospital dba Adventist Health Sonora · Symons Family Fund · California Fire Foundation · Public Health Institute · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sonora Area Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sonora Area Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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