· Private foundation
The Donant Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $102k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $84k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $83,500 |
| ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| ELK GROVE YOUNG LIFE | $11,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA GREATER SACRAMENTO | $10,000 |
| FUTURE FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| FAIRYTALE TOWN | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
15 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- JHJESUIT HIGH SCHOOL7× · 2017–2025 · $300k
- CRCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $253k
- SNSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS5× · 2019–2024 · $100k
Funded once
SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGEone grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +7%- AAALBIE AWARE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $8k
- PSPregnancy Support Group of Woodland Inc Crisis Pregnancy Hotlinegraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +79%
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 mission is to ensure that individuals and families experiencing homelessness or the risk of homelessness are able to access housing services and resources on their path to economic stability. The Organization is the lead…
To provide temporary shelter and assistance to homeless families, and also to provide rental assistance in an effort to prevent families from becoming homeless. Program goal is to assist the families in their efforts to become…
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…
Achieving permanent sanctuary and healing homes for children and families from hard places.
To help all children in our community reach their full potential.
We help families experiencing homelessness find lasting independence and security.
Angels foster care protects abused, neglected and abandoned infants and toddlers, nurtures them in one loving home until adoption or reunification, and ensures that they reach their maximum development potential.
To provide certified residential care and treatment of foster care children placed through county welfare departments under the provision of the california welfare and institutions code
Futuro Infantil Hispano is a non-profit Foster Family Agency devoted to providing quality care and we strongly believe in and support family reunification.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sierra Forever Families and the most unlike its peers is The Future Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 24 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 WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOHN'S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Pregnancy Support Group of Woodland Inc Crisis Pregnancy Hotline ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL HOLY SPIRIT CONFERENCE ↗
- Who funds SIERRA FOREVER FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds ANGELS FOR HEARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Fairytale Town Inc ↗
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: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Gately Foundation A California Charitable Trust · Pfund Family Foundation · Point West Rotary Club Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Sutter Valley Hospitals · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Donant Foundation 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.