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Terra Family Foundation at a glance

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Terra Family 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.

$501k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$136k
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 2024.

Human Services$983kHealth$897kReligion$666kHousing & Shelter$141kYouth Development$129kEmployment$101kEducation$85kInternational$61kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $401k
$60,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YOUTH FOR CHRIST MINISTRIES$135,940
SIERRA PREGNANCY AND HEALTH$75,000
SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME$70,000
GEORGE MARK CHILDREN'S HOUSE$60,000
FRISTERS$60,000
MISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO BRO-AM$35,000
SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION$30,000
STEP FORWARD ACADEMY$15,000
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT$10,000
VALLEY CHILDRENS HOSPITAL$10,000
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 (FY17–24, $917k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KINDERHAVEN: $2k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $114k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $95k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $80k → 12%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $74k → 12%FRISTERS: $75k → 10%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $70k → 12%FRISTERS: $60k → 10%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $70k → 12%FRISTERS: $57k → 10%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $61k → 12%FRISTERS: $50k → 10%SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $60k → 12%FRISTERS: $35k → 10%FRISTERS: $10k → 10%FRISTERS: $5k → 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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.8M · 14 repeat orgs$291k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +70% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
8

Total granted

$2.8M
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+40%

Still filing today

79%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationReligionInternationalYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • YF
    YOUTH FOR CHRIST SACRAMENTO
    8× · 2017–2024 · $641k · revenue +4%
  • SC
    SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME
    8× · 2017–2024 · $624k · revenue +108%
  • GM
    George Mark Childrens Fund
    7× · 2017–2024 · $390k · revenue +88%

Funded once

  • CL
    CAMPUS LIFE CONNECTION
    one grant, 2020 · $94k · revenue +7%
  • AC
    ALMA COMMUNITY CARES
    one grant, 2018 · $46k
  • 7W
    7B WOMEN INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · 30% 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
Christian Family Care Agency Inc

The mission of christian family care is to strengthen families and serve at-risk children in the name of jesus christ. the outcome of our work results in building flourishing families and communities focusing on three pillars: preserve,…

Human Services
2
Allyfe Pregnancy Clinics

Allyfe pregnancy clinic exists to offer truth, hope, and love to every woman and family facing an unexpected pregnancy. founded in 1985, we have built four decades of integrity as a christ-centered center of excellence - providing…

Human Services
3
Providence Trinitycare Hospice

As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.

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4
House of Hope

Treating substance use disorders, rebuilding lives, strengthening families, and empowering women.

—
5
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
6
Sunflower House Inc

To protect children in our community from physical and sexual abuse through education, advocacy, forensic , medical and mental health services.

Crime & Legal
7
Stanford Youth Solutions dba Stanford Sierra Youth & Families

To help solve the most challenging issues facing youth and families in northern california by providing tailored services from counseling and therapy to alternative placements with an end result of permanently connecting our young clients…

Human Services
8
Womens Resource Medical Centers

Women's resource medical centers of southern nevada (wrmcsn) is a community-based, faith-driven not for profit 501 (c) 3 organization that exists to support pregnant women with medical care and resources to ensure healthy and thriving…

Health
9
Praying Through Ministries Inc

The mission of Praying Through ministries is to deliver gospel hope to families navigating dark seasons of pregnancy, childhood illness, hospitalization, and/or child loss (miscarriage, stillbirth, infant loss, and child loss of any age)…

Religion
10
Child Abuse Prevention Council of Sacramento

The mission of the child abuse prevention council of sacramento (capc) is to reduce child abuse and neglect.

Crime & Legal
11
Covenant House California

Covenant house is dedicated to serving all of god's children with absolute respect and unconditional love to help youth experiencing homelessness and to protect and safeguard all youth in need.

Human Services
12
Children's Haven of Southwest Misso

The mission of children's haven is to provide temporary shelter to children in a safe, secure environment while their parents resolve a family crisis. each year hundreds of children ages birth through 17 years receive the nurturing care of…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is George Mark Childrens Fund; the most unlike its peers is Samaritan's Purse. 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

17 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. 17 of the 23 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

YOUTH FOR CHRIST SACRAMENTO: $641,240 · OtherYOUTH FOR CHRIST SACRAMENTOCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $85,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S HOSPITALST ANNE'S CATHOLIC SCHOOL: $85,000 · OtherST ANNE'S CATHOLIC SCHOOLALMA COMMUNITY CARES: $46,000 · OtherMISSION EDGE SAN DIEGO BRO-AM: $35,000 · OtherZAFIA'S HOUSE: $35,000 · OtherMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,500 · Other+3 more: $65,000 · Other+3 moreSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $623,700 · Human ServicesSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOMEFristers: $292,000 · Human ServicesFristers+1 more: $1,500 · Human ServicesGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $390,000 · HealthGeorge Mark Childrens FundVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $237,000 · HealthVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITALSIERRA PREGNANCY & HEALTH: $110,000 · HealthSIERRA PREGNANCY & HEALTHSWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION: $40,000 · HealthProject Hope Alliance: $85,000 · EducationWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $56,000 · EducationSTEP FORWARD ACADEMY: $101,000 · EmploymentCAMPUS LIFE CONNECTION: $93,610 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST LOVE MINISTRIES USA: $25,000 · ReligionSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25,000 · Religion
Other$1,027,740Human Services$917,200Health$777,000Education$141,000Employment$101,000Youth Development$93,610Religion$50,000

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 budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST SACRAMENTO: $641,240 over 8y, 11% of budgetSACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME: $623,700 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund: $390,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetFristers: $292,000 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetVALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $237,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSIERRA PREGNANCY & HEALTH: $110,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetSTEP FORWARD ACADEMY: $101,000 over 4y, 31% of budgetCAMPUS LIFE CONNECTION: $93,610 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetProject Hope Alliance: $85,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $56,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION: $40,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC: $35,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budget7B WOMEN INC: $30,000 over 1y, 30% of budgetFIRST LOVE MINISTRIES USA: $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBILETNIKOFF FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKINDERHAVEN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% 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 YOUTH FOR CHRIST SACRAMENTO ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
  • Who funds George Mark Childrens Fund ↗
  • Who funds Fristers ↗
  • Who funds VALLEY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA PREGNANCY & HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds STEP FORWARD ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds CAMPUS LIFE CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds Project Hope Alliance ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ↗
  • Who funds SWEET DREAMS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds 7B WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST LOVE MINISTRIES USA ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
  • Who funds BILETNIKOFF FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KINDERHAVEN INC ↗

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.

Deacon Charitable Fou…In-N-Out Burgers Foun…Sacramento Region Com…Enterprise Holdings F…Charities Aid Foundat…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Natl Christian Charit…Donor Advised Charita…Vanguard Charitable E…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Deacon Charitable FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Deacon Charitable Foundation · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Terra Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Terra Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%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 Terra Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Terra Family Foundation 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 23 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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