· 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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 65% of THE 54 FUND’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
| DIOCESE OF STOCKTON | $25,000 |
| HAGGIN MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| ST MARY'S HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| LODI BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $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 |
| TULEBURG PRESS | $5,000 |
| ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF STOCKTON | $5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- 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
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reinvent Stockton Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Joaquin County Bar Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 12. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 28% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 16% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, 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; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your 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 STOCKTON FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN SPORTSMEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP STOCKTON ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LODI POLICE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TULEBURG PRESS ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL PROTECTION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds LODI MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LODI HOUSE ↗
- Who funds STOCKTON OLIVE OIL PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — 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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The 54 Fund funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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