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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.

$54k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$31k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Youth Development$191kFood & Nutrition$52kHuman Services$42kPhilanthropy$11kHousing & Shelter$11kEducation$8kHealth$6kPublic Safety & Disaster$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $7k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
$2,573
Median grant
2
States reached
$642k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%The Afiya Center: $100 → 14%Gold Country Community Services: $5k → 11%Gold Country Community Services: $4k → 11%Gold Country Community Services: $3k → 11%Sacramento Childrens Home: $1k → 12%Sacramento Childrens Home: $750 → 12%Wayfinder Family Services: $3k → 12%Sacramento Childrens Home: $200 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$301k · 16 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +80% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
30

Total granted

$301k
$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+34%

Still filing today

56%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionAnimalsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • IF
    Interfaith Food Ministry Nevada County
    5× · 2020–2024 · $22k · revenue +80%
  • SF
    SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES
    2× · 2020–2022 · $21k · revenue +43%
  • GC
    Gold Country Community Services
    3× · 2020–2023 · $11k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • NC
    Nevada County Relief Fund
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
  • TI
    TLCS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +155%
  • EG
    Elk Grove Community Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue -9%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
2
Sacramento Life Center Inc

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…

Health
3
Chico Feminist Womens Health Center dba Womens Health Specialists

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.

Health
4
Access Reproductive Justice

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.

—
5
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

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.

Human Services
6
California Human Trafficking Investigators and Prosecuters Asso
Crime & Legal
7
Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc

Planned Parenthood Northern California generates healthier communities through the delivery of quality sexual and reproductive health care services.

Health
8
Healthy Community Forum for Sacramento Region dba Community HealthWorks

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…

Health
9
Sutter Valley Hospitals

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,…

Health
10
California Donor Table

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…

Civil Rights
11
California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation

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…

—
12
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fund Texas Choice; 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.
04the grantee network

30 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
20/30
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Golden Empire Council - Boy Scouts: $139,317 · OtherGolden Empire Council - Boy ScoutsBoy Scouts of America: $42,801 · OtherBoy Scouts of AmericaSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $21,014 · OtherSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICESIndividual grant recipient: $13,388 · OtherTucker Mesker Foundation: $11,125 · Other+29 more: $63,616 · Other+29 moreInterfaith Food Ministry Nevada County: $22,025 · Food & NutritionFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $831 · Food & NutritionGold Country Community Services: $11,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder Family Services: $2,500 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $1,950 · Human Services+2 more: $200 · Human ServicesTLCS INC: $5,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthElk Grove Community Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyRIVER CITY FOOD BANK: $2,000 · Community ImprovementALCHEMIST CDC: $1,543 · Community ImprovementOPENING DOORS INC: $1,058 · Community ImprovementSACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,594 · AnimalsHAPPY TAILS PET SANCTUARY: $1,000 · Animals
Other$291,261Food & Nutrition$22,856Human Services$15,650Health$5,100Philanthropy$5,000Community Improvement$4,601Animals$4,594

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetInterfaith Food Ministry Nevada County: $22,025 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $21,014 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGold Country Community Services: $11,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSacramento LGBT Community Center: $8,747 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWEAVE INC: $5,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTLCS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElk Grove Community Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMUTUAL HOUSING CORPORATION: $4,500 over 2y, 11% of budgetNEVADA AREA COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 329: $3,708 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $3,594 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $2,687 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVER CITY FOOD BANK: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $1,950 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALCHEMIST CDC: $1,543 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO SELF-HELP HOUSING INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPENING DOORS INC: $1,058 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAPPY TAILS PET SANCTUARY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMy Sisters House: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS: $831 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN LUIS OBISPO REPERTORY THEATRE: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetClinic Access Support Network: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGE COLLECTIVE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Fund: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANE'S DUE PROCESS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFUND TEXAS CHOICE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHOLE WOMAN'S HEALTH ALLIANCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS LILITH FUND: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Sacramento Region Com…Teichert FoundationUnited Way California…Sacramento Food Bank …Sierra Health Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Dignity HealthPfund Family Foundati…Kelly FoundationJoyce and Irving Gold…Sutter Valley Hospita…California Foundation…
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA27.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stardog Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stardog Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 49 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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