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Syar Foundation Susan L Syar Director

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$823k
Granted FY2025still arriving
38
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0189% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.3MHuman Services$1.0MHealth$636kYouth Development$333kFood & Nutrition$286kArts & Culture$276kRecreation & Sports$265kCommunity Improvement$244kOther$0
02FY2025 · 38 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $689k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SUTTER SANTA ROSA REGIONAL HOSPITAL$55,000
VACAVILLE BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$50,000
VIA HEART PROJECT (NAPA POLICE DEPARTMENT)$45,180
Individual grant recipient$45,000
SONOMA COUNTY FIRE DISTRICT$30,000
RUSSIAN RIVER KEPPER$30,000
Individual grant recipient$30,000
CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE$30,000
COPE FAMILY CENTER$25,000
NAPA EMERGENCY WOMEN'S SERVICES (NEWS)$25,000
HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA$25,000
COUNCIL ON AGING$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
SOLANO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$25,000
SQUARES PEG FOUNDATION$25,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $616k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%UP VALLEY FAMILY CENTERS OF NAPA COUNTY: $25k → 9%Creres Community Project: $15k → 9%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 14%SUMMER HOUSE INC: $20k → 16%UP VALLEY FAMILY CENTERS OF NAPA COUNTY: $25k → 9%B WALKER RANCH: $25k → 9%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%B WALKER RANCH: $19k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $15k → 9%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $10k → 14%B Walker Ranch: $10k → 9%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $10k → 9%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY INC: $20k → 16%CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $5k → 9%SHARE THE CARE NAPA VALLEY: $35k → 9%SHARE THE CARE NAPA VALLEY: $25k → 9%SHARE THE CARE NAPA VALLEY: $22k → 9%CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $20k → 9%Napa Emergency Women's Serv: $20k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $25k → 9%NAPA EMERGENCY WOMEN'S SERVICES: $20k → 9%SHARE THE CARE NAPA VALLEY: $20k → 9%LA LUZ CENTER: $5k → 9%THE ROBBY POBLETE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%NAPA EMERGENCY WOMEN'S SERVICES: $20k → 9%THE ROBBY POBLETE FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $45k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $30k → 9%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 9%WATCH ME GROW INC: $10k → 10%CHILDRENS NETWORK OF SOLANO COUNTY: $20k → 10%CHILDREN'S NETWORK OF SOLANO COUNTY: $20k → 10%NAPA VALLEY SUPPORT SERVICES: $10k → 9%Children's Network of Solano County: $10k → 10%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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.5M · 75 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

75 repeat relationships: 30 still active in FY2025, 45 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

75
46

Total granted

$4.5M
$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
0%

Still filing today

59%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $129k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsFood & NutritionEducationOther
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

  • CF
    Cope Family Center
    9× · 2017–2025 · $235k · revenue +29%
  • TV
    THE VACAVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    5× · 2019–2025 · $215k · revenue +144%
  • YF
    YOLO FOOD BANK
    4× · 2019–2023 · $155k · revenue +99%

Funded once

  • F5
    FIRST 5 SOLANO (CHILD START INC)
    one grant, 2024 · $1.0M
  • SE
    SOLANO EDC (ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP)
    one grant, 2022 · $50k
  • SA
    SUISUN AMERICAN LITTLE LEAGUE
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +22% · 28% of their budget
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
Court Appointed Special Advocates

The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.

Civil Rights
2
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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3
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
4
Homes for California Dba Homes for Sonoma

Homes for Sonoma is a nonprofit developer creating quality workforce housing options that support safe and sustainable community, and finds efficient, scalable solutions to address the housing crisis in Sonoma County and throughout…

Housing & Shelter
5
Solano Family & Childrens Council Inc

Solano Family & Children's Services promotes and advocates for the well-being of children, their families, and child care providers by offering access to a variety of child care resources.

Human Services
6
Solano Affordable Housing Foundation
Housing & Shelter
7
Sonoma Valley Health & Recreation Association

Sonoma Valley Health and recreation Association (Sonoma Splash) is dedicated to providing a sustainable state of the art multi-use aquatic and recreation facility accessible to all Sonoma Valley residents for aquatic education and safety,…

Recreation & Sports
8
Nami Sonoma County

NAMI Sonoma County's mission is to build better lives for individuals and families affected by mental illness throughout Sonoma County by providing education, support, and advocacy.

—
9
Northern California Center for Well-Being

To improve the health and well-being of our community through evidence-based health practices and innovative programs that advance health equity for all.

Health
10
Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition

Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition is a 501c3 Non-Profit and Physician Lead Harm Reduction Program. Our program provides life saving Naloxone, Overdose Reversal Training, Safe Use Supplies, Syringe Disposal, HIV/HCV Testing, Drug…

Education
11
Santa Rosa Community Health Centers

The Santa Rosa Community Health Centers are dedicated to providing excellent, comprehensive primary health care, prevention, and health education for people who are uninsured and underinsured in Santa Rosa, regardless of ability to pay.

Health
12
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shelter Solano Inc; the most unlike its peers is American Diabetes Association. 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

70 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. 70 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/70
Grantees still filing
43/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FIRST 5 SOLANO (CHILD START INC): $1,000,000 · OtherFIRST 5 SOLANO (CHILD START INC)Individual grant recipient: $170,000 · OtherBOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY: $151,500 · OtherACCESS ADVENTURE: $183,000 · Other+87 more: $2,606,090 · Other+87 moreCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $105,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMP…Share the Care Napa Valley: $101,500 · Human ServicesShare the C…NEWS: $60,000 · Human ServicesNEWSB WALKER RANCH: $54,000 · Human ServicesB WALKER RA…UPVALLEY FAMILY CENTERS OF NAPA COUNTY: $50,000 · Human ServicesUPVALLEY FA…Childrens Network of Solano County: $50,000 · Human ServicesChildrens N…Wayfinder Family Services: $50,000 · Human ServicesWayfinder F…THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $45,000 · Human ServicesTHE CERES C…LA LUZ CENTER: $30,000 · Human Services+6 more: $100,125 · Human Services+6 moreSUTTER BAY HOSPITALS: $105,000 · HealthSQUARE PEG FOUNDATION: $80,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH INITIATIVE NAPA COUNTY INC: $80,000 · HealthHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY: $50,000 · HealthBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $47,520 · HealthALS Network: $25,000 · HealthVIA HEART PROJECT: $25,000 · HealthPuertas Abiertas Community Resource Center: $20,000 · Health+2 more: $21,000 · HealthVOENA: $200,000 · Arts & CultureHEALDSBURG JAZZ FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureNapa Valley Youth Symphony: $20,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG ARTISTS CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureDOWNTOWN THEATER FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $5,000 · Arts & CultureYOLO FOOD BANK: $155,000 · Food & NutritionHANDS ACROSS THE VALLEY INC GEORGE ALTAMURA SR: $51,000 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $40,000 · Food & NutritionFEEDING IT FORWARD INC: $10,000 · Food & NutritionCope Family Center: $235,000 · Crime & LegalTHE VACAVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $215,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRLS ON THE RUN NAPA & SOLANO INC DBA GIRLS ON THE RUN NORTH BAY: $10,000 · Youth Development
Other$4,110,590Human Services$645,625Health$453,520Arts & Culture$275,000Food & Nutrition$256,000Crime & Legal$235,000Youth Development$225,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCope Family Center: $235,000 over 9y, 3.8% of budgetTHE VACAVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $215,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetVOENA: $200,000 over 9y, 12% of budgetACCESS ADVENTURE: $183,000 over 8y, 97% of budgetYOLO FOOD BANK: $155,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY: $151,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSUTTER BAY HOSPITALS: $105,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetShare the Care Napa Valley: $101,500 over 4y, 13% of budgetSOLANO COALITION FOR BETTER HEALTH: $100,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCommunity Resources for Children: $100,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCASA of Solano County: $85,250 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetHEALTHY VALLEJO COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC: $85,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetSQUARE PEG FOUNDATION: $80,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH INITIATIVE NAPA COUNTY INC: $80,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetFAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION: $67,500 over 7y, 9.1% of budgetCenter for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership: $61,250 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNEWS: $60,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetB WALKER RANCH: $54,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetHANDS ACROSS THE VALLEY INC GEORGE ALTAMURA SR: $51,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetHEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY: $50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetUPVALLEY FAMILY CENTERS OF NAPA COUNTY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetChildrens Network of Solano County: $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetWayfinder Family Services: $50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY RESOURCES INC: $47,520 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $45,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSafeQuest Solano Inc: $33,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetHEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetLA LUZ CENTER: $30,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTIM AND JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSHELTER SOLANO INC: $30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetRussian Riverkeeper: $30,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSUISUN AMERICAN LITTLE LEAGUE: $25,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetALS Network: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Loma Vista Farm: $25,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetVIA HEART PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetYOLO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $20,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE ROBBY POBLETE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SOLANO COUNTY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALDSBURG JAZZ FESTIVAL INC: $20,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetSUMMER HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNapa Valley Youth Symphony: $20,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetYolo Crisis Nursery: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPuertas Abiertas Community Resource Center: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Diabetes Association: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOLANO COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 7.2% 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 Cope Family Center ↗
  • Who funds THE VACAVILLE NEIGHBORHOOD BOYS & GIRLS CLUB ↗
  • Who funds VOENA ↗
  • Who funds ACCESS ADVENTURE ↗
  • Who funds YOLO FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds BOYS CLUB OF NAPA INC BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SUTTER BAY HOSPITALS ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Share the Care Napa Valley ↗
  • Who funds SOLANO COALITION FOR BETTER HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds Community Resources for Children ↗
  • Who funds CASA of Solano County ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY VALLEJO COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH INITIATIVE NAPA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Center for Volunteer & Nonprofit Leadership ↗
  • Who funds NEWS ↗
  • Who funds B WALKER RANCH ↗
  • Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE VALLEY INC GEORGE ALTAMURA SR ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION NORTHERN SONOMA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds UPVALLEY FAMILY CENTERS OF NAPA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds Childrens Network of Solano County ↗
  • Who funds Wayfinder Family Services ↗

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.

Community Foundation …Kaiser Foundation Hos…McNabb FoundationPeter a & Vernice H G…The San Francisco Fou…Travis Credit Union's…Solano Community Foun…Craig and Kathryn Hal…California Foundation…Napa Valley Vintners …Sonoma County Communi…The California Wellne…
Community Foundation of the Napa ValleyCA52.1× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Travis Credit Union's Community Financial Wellness Fund · Solano Community Foundation · Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The California Wellness 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 Syar Foundation Susan L Syar Director funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Syar Foundation Susan L Syar Director. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
    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.
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    Find your warmest path to Syar Foundation Susan L Syar Director 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 129 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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