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Stanislaus Community Foundation
The vision of Stanislaus Community Foundation is that Stanislaus County is a community of choice where people live, work and thrive.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 177 grants below total $7,353,564 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,266,333 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $912,769 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
- Under $10k31 grants · $209k
- $10k–50k104 grants · $1.9M
- $50k–250k39 grants · $4.3M
- $250k+3 grants · $892k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Center for Human Services | $365,766 |
| Fidelity Charitable | $270,962 |
| Gallo Center for the Arts | $255,100 |
| Modesto Gospel Mission | $226,400 |
| Modesto Childrens Museum | $220,500 |
| What Would Jesus Do Ministry | $200,500 |
| Stanford Health Care Partners | $200,200 |
| Modesto Symphony Orchestra | $192,000 |
| Improve Your Tomorrow | $189,500 |
| State Theatre of Modesto | $177,834 |
| Central Valley Journalism Col | $177,000 |
| CSU Stanislaus | $169,870 |
| UC Merced Foundation | $157,370 |
| Salvation Army | $157,350 |
| City Ministry Network | $141,317 |
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 (FY17–24, $4.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
196 repeat relationships — 131 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 45 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $819k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- CFCENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $2.5M · revenue +137%
- GCGALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +0%
- MCMODESTO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM4× · 2021–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +101% · 50% of their budget
Funded once
- NFNOZ Fundone grant, 2018 · $450k
- SCSTANISLAUS COUNTY LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $250k
- SCStanislaus County Workforceone grant, 2020 · $150k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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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The vision of Stanislaus Community Foundation is that Stanislaus County is a community of choice where people live, work and thrive. To achieve this vision, Stanislaus Community Foundation's mission is to steward charitable resources and…
To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
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…
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As an integral member of the san jose state university community, the san jose state university research foundation provides an entrepreneurial framework through which local, state and federal agencies, businesses and private foundations…
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Educational Assistance Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
275 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. 275 of the 354 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 CENTER FOR HUMAN SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY STANISLAUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GALLO CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MODESTO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MODESTO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds United Way of Stanislaus County ↗
- Who funds MODESTO GOSPEL MISSION ↗
- Who funds STATE THEATRE OF MODESTO INC ↗
- Who funds STANISLAUS BUSINESS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds City Ministry Network ↗
- Who funds University of California Merced Foundation ↗
- Who funds IMPROVE YOUR TOMORROW INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY TRANSITIONAL RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds EMC HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Stanislaus County ↗
- Who funds Modesto Junior College Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM GREAT VALLEY CHAPTER INC ↗
- Who funds STANFORD HEALTH CARE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK STATE WINE AND CULINARY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STANISLAUS COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FARMLAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds GRAFFITI USA CLASSIC CAR MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL WEST BALLET ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds VALLEY MOUNTAIN REGIONAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION STANISLAUS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL NEST INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDRENS CRISIS CENTER OF STANISLAUS COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Modesto Sunrise Rotary Foundation ↗
- Who funds ST LUKES FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY ↗
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: The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · United Way of Stanislaus County · Bob & Marie Gallo Foundation · Reed Foundation · The Bright Family Foundation · Legacy Health Endowment · Stewart Family Foundation · Mary Stuart Rogers Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Save Mart Cares · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals
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 Stanislaus 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.
- World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals — 67% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.