· Private foundation
Stardog Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $7k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boy Scouts of America | $31,164 |
| Golden Empire Council - Boy Scouts | $15,330 |
| Interfaith Food Ministry | $2,575 |
| South Sacramento Interfaith Food Cl | $2,573 |
| San Diego Imperial Valley Council B | $1,036 |
| Southern Sierra Council BSA | $515 |
| Tucker Mesker Foundation | $400 |
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 (FY20–23, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +80% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- IFInterfaith Food Ministry Nevada County5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +80%
- SFSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES2× · 2020–2022 · $21k · revenue +43%
- GCGold Country Community Services3× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +126%
Funded once
- NCNevada County Relief Fundone grant, 2021 · $6k
- TITLCS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +155%
- EGElk Grove Community Foundationone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -9%
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.
The Sacramento Life Center compassionately offers judgment-free support, resources, and free medical services to materially and emotionally equip women and families facing an unplanned or unsupported pregnancy to uphold and honor the value…
Womens Health Specialists vision is a world where women control their own bodies,reproduction, and sexuality. The center is dedicated to providing women-controlledhealth care for all women.
The purpose of ACCESS REPRODUCTIVE JUSTICE is to remove barriers to sexual and reproductive health care and build the power of Californians to demand health, justice, and dignity.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Planned Parenthood Northern California generates healthier communities through the delivery of quality sexual and reproductive health care services.
Healthy Community Forum for the Greater Sacramento Region operates under the name Community HealthWorks (formally Sacramento Covered), a not-for-profit philanthropic organization, is an innovative leader in developing and implementing a…
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,…
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
The mission of CRLAF is to achieve social justice and equity in partnership with farmworkers and the underserved in rural communities through community, legislative and legal advocacy. Our vision is for all farmworkers and their families…
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund Texas Choice and the most unlike its peers is Mutual Housing Corporation. 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 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 49 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 Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Gold Country Community Services ↗
- Who funds Sacramento LGBT Community Center ↗
- Who funds WEAVE INC ↗
- Who funds TLCS INC ↗
- Who funds Elk Grove Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUTUAL HOUSING CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 329 ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗
- Who funds RIVER CITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds ALCHEMIST CDC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds OPENING DOORS INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TAILS PET SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds My Sisters House ↗
- Who funds FEEDING THE FOOTHILLS ↗
- Who funds SAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Clinic Access Support Network ↗
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Sierra Health Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Dignity Health · Pfund Family Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Joyce and Irving Goldman Family Foundation Inc · Sutter Valley Hospitals · California Foundation for Stronger Communities
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 Stardog 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.