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SVVMA Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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SVVMA Charitable Foundation Inc

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$460k
Granted FY2020
6
Grants FY2020
1
States reached
$419k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Community Improvement$419kHuman Services$35kAnimals$34kEducation$27kHealth$9kScience & Tech$3k
02FY2020 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k4 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
  • $250k+1 grant · $419k
$2,007
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Sac Region Community Foundation$419,327
SVVMA$35,000
Sacramento Splash$2,007
Ride to Walk$1,500
LEND-A-HEART PET THERAPY$1,500
COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–20) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 98% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Kitten Central of Placer County: $2k → 6%LEND-A-HEART PET THERAPY: $2k → 12%SCAVMA STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS: $6k → 16%Kitten Central of Placer County: $2k → 6%LEND-A-HEART PET THERAPY: $2k → 12%UC Davis Veterinary Student Outreac: $6k → 16%Kitten Central of Placer County: $1k → 6%LEND-A-HEART PET THERAPY: $500 → 12%UC Davis Veterinary Student Outreac: $4k → 16%Ride to Walk: $2k → 6%Sacramento Splash: $3k → 12%Yolo County SPCA: $2k → 16%Ride to Walk: $2k → 6%Sacramento Splash: $2k → 12%Yolo County SPCA: $2k → 16%Ride to Walk: $2k → 6%Sacramento Splash: $1k → 12%orphan kitten project: $1k → 16%Ride to Walk: $1k → 6%Sacramento Splash: $1k → 12%Yolo County SPCA: $1k → 16%Gold Country Wildlife Rescue: $1k → 6%Wildlife Care Association: $2k → 12%Knights Landing 1 Health Clinic: $3k → 16%Placer SPCA: $500 → 6%COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE: $1k → 12%COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE: $800 → 12%COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE: $800 → 12%Friends of Front Street Animal Shel: $1k → 12%COSUMNES RIVER COLLEGE: $800 → 12%SVVMA: $35k → 12%CVMA Foundation: $3k → 12%Sac Region Community Foundation: $419k → 12%The Chester Foundation: $2k → 12%RIVER CITY CAT RESCUE: $500 → 12%TEAM: $1k → 12%TEAM: $1k → 12%4 Paws 2 Freedom: $1k → 12%PROJECT RIDE: $2k → 12%4 Paws 2 Freedom: $900 → 12%PROJECT RIDE: $2k → 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.

10%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$53k · 12 repeat orgs$474k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$53k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+133%

Still filing today

33%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $454k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20
AnimalsEducationOther
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

  • SS
    Sacramento Splash
    4× · 2017–2020 · $7k · revenue +154%
  • RT
    RIDE TO WALK INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $6k · revenue +34%
  • KC
    Kitten Central of Placer County Inc
    3× · 2017–2019 · $5k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $6k
  • KL
    Knights Landing 1 Health Clinic
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • CF
    CVMA Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
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
Fresno Tnr

Providing low cost spaying & neutering of feral and community cats.

Animals
2
Foothill Dog Rescue of the Sierras

Foothill Dog Rescue is a 100% all volunteer organization dedicated to re-homing dogs from over crowded animal shelters, owner surrenders and underserved communities. We also sponsor vaccine and microchip clinics for our County and have…

Animals
3
California Animal Rescue and Education Sanctuary Inc

C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…

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4
Sierra Pacific Furbabies Inc

Sierra Pacific picks up, treat and places injured and abandoned animals.

Animals
5
Redwood Coast Humane Society

Prevention of pet abuse, neglect, and over-population by providing temporary and permanent homes for abandoned cats and dogs and providing neutering and spaying services for these animals.

Animals
6
Cat Wrangler Rescue Inc

Trap/neuter/return (tnr) focused cat rescue, stray and feral trap, spay/neuter/ vaccinate / recuperate and return, cat/kitten fostering, provide medical aid to stray and feral cats, and adoptions of kittens and friendly stray cats.

Animals
7
Wild Souls Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation
Animals
8
Paws and Claws Animal Welfare Society Inc

Animal Rescue

Animals
9
Centre Wildlife Care

Licensed organization dedicated to caring for injured, orphaned, sick and displaced wildlife for the purpose of releasing them back into the wild.

Animals
10
Carson Cats Rescue

Carson Cats is dedicated to rescuing cats and kittens from the 6 Los Angeles County shelters, specifically Carson Shelter.

Animals
11
Kitten Around Cat Rescue
Animals
12
River Road Rescue Sanctuary Inc
Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Spca; the most unlike its peers is The Chester Foundation. 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

10 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. 10 of the 24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
9/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Sac Region Community Foundation: $419,327 · OtherSac Region Community FoundationSVVMA: $35,000 · OtherSVVMA+16 more: $54,340 · Other+16 moreKitten Central of Placer County Inc: $4,775 · AnimalsYOLO COUNTY SPCA: $4,000 · AnimalsThe Chester Foundation: $2,000 · AnimalsThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA: $500 · AnimalsRIVER CITY CAT RESCUE: $500 · AnimalsSacramento Splash: $6,507 · Education
Other$508,667Animals$11,775Education$6,507

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSacramento Splash: $6,507 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetRIDE TO WALK INC: $6,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetKitten Central of Placer County Inc: $4,775 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetYOLO COUNTY SPCA: $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetProject Ride Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Chester Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetWildlife Care Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetGold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA: $500 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.

  • Who funds Sacramento Splash ↗
  • Who funds RIDE TO WALK INC ↗
  • Who funds Kitten Central of Placer County Inc ↗
  • Who funds YOLO COUNTY SPCA ↗
  • Who funds Project Ride Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Chester Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Wildlife Care Association ↗
  • Who funds Gold Country Wildlife Rescue Inc ↗
  • Who funds The Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA ↗
  • Who funds RIVER CITY CAT RESCUE ↗

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…Thornton S Jr and Kat…Placer Community Foun…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Thornton S Jr and Katrina D Glide Foundation · Placer Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 SVVMA Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from SVVMA Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to SVVMA Charitable Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to SVVMA Charitable Foundation Inc 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.

    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 24 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 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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