· Private foundation
The 54 Fund
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k87 grants · $215k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $234k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST MARY'S DINING ROOM | $78,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SAN JOAQUIN | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| HAGGIN MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| DIOCESE OF STOCKTON | $25,000 |
| LODI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $25,000 |
| ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| OAK GROVE NATURE CENTER | $23,880 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF STOCKTON | $15,000 |
| SAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY | $10,000 |
| SJCOE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAMILY RESOURCE AND REFERRAL CENTER | $7,500 |
| MANTECA CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| REINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–24, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +5% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
84 repeat relationships: 81 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 17 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $99k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UWUNITED WAY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY3× · 2022–2024 · $95k · revenue +120%
- SMST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICES3× · 2022–2024 · $84k · revenue +587%
- SMST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · $75k · revenue +34%
Funded once
- BMBISHOPS MINISTRY APPEALone grant, 2023 · $35k
- EPENDEAVOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INCone grant, 2023 · $12k
- SOSJC OFFICE OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
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.
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.
The organization's purpose is to promote san joaquin county and facilitate the creation of jobs within the county through its activities.
Support for local law enforcement
The mission of shrp is to provide harm reduction services to people who use drugs and unhoused individuals in san joaquin county.
The San Jose Police Foundation is dedicated to preventing crime, saving lives and making our community a better and safer place to live and work by assisting the San Jose Police Department with resources not available from the city. We are…
To provide community programs which support law enforcement and crime prevention needs for the community of SalinasTo provide training and equipment for the Police Department of the City of Salinas, California.
The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…
The mission of the museum is to inspire present and future generations to appreciate the fine arts and regional history by engaging our visitors' creative, social, and learning interests through exhibitions, programs, and events. this is…
A network of friends, inspired by gospel values, growing in holiness and building a more just world through personal relationships with and service to people in need.
To provide medical education and support to the community of Stanislaus County through promotion of the 4 social determinants of health.
To help reduce homelessness and support low income families in san joaquin county to achieve sustainable independence through a community-based response.
San joaquin safety council, inc. is a community resource for health and safety information and education.
How this is measured
49 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. 49 of the 126 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 UNITED WAY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SUPPORT STOCKTON POLICE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JOAQUIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LODI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF STOCKTON ↗
- Who funds REINVENT STOCKTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAMILY RESOURCE & REFERRAL CENTER OF SAN JOAQUIN ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SPORTSMEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds STOCKTON FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP STOCKTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LODI POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TULEBURG PRESS ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds PIXIE WOODS INC ↗
- Who funds LODI HOUSE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Cortopassi Family Foundation · San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc · Crete Family Foundation · Port City Operating Company LLC · Rosi Cerri Foundation Inc · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Henry and Carol Zeiter Charitable Foundation · Vaquero Foundation · The Foster Family Charitable Foundation · Coastal Barrier Island Foundation · Sunlight Giving · Teichert Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The 54 Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The 54 Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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