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The Foor 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $119k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| READING PALS CHICO | $70,000 |
| BOYS GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTH VALLE | $25,000 |
| TRUE NORTH HOUSING ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| DURHAM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $22,644 |
| CSU Chico Foundation | $16,000 |
| Butte Ag Foundation | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHICO COMMUNITY BALL | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| NATIONAL SOCIETY OF BLACK ENGINEERS | $6,000 |
| CHICO STEM CONNECTIONS COLLABORATIV | $5,000 |
| Kiwanis Club | $2,500 |
| BETA CHAPTER OF OMEGA NU FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BUTTE UNITED SOCCER CLUB | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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 +71% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 6 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
- RPREADING PALS CHICO3× · 2022–2024 · $130k · revenue +649% · 80% of their budget
- EHENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2023 · $73k · revenue +97%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches3× · 2020–2024 · $56k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- AFABILITY FIRST SPORTSgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $40k · revenue +33% · 42% of their budget
- NCNORD COUNTRY SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $38k · revenue +26%
- CCCSU CHICO - ECOLOGICAL RESERVESone grant, 2021 · $33k
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.
Purchase books, digital media, magazines, and equipment. sponsor library programs and provide volunteer recognition.
To promote public awareness and educate participants to bicycle safety and alternative transportation. the organization holds several major bicycle events open to the public.
We partner with students, families, and the community to spark curiosity and engage in work that matters.
Primary exempt purpose: to raise and receive funds, accept donations, and administer and expend funds and assets exclusively for charitable and educational purposes, within the meaning of section 501 (c) (3) of the internal revenue code of…
To operate the chico history museum in chico, ca and in the process conserve, research and display the history of chico by communicating the history for the education and enjoyment of the community and preserve the relationship of the…
Promote interest and trade and beautify the downtown business environment.
Butte Environmental Council's Mission is to protect and defend the land, air, and water of Butte County and the surrounding region through action, advocacy, and education.
The butte college foundation supports butte college through fundraising and other forms of support. its most significant achievement is its scholarship program that awards approximately 250 internal scholarships to 170 students and…
Friends of the Chico Animal Shelter raises funds for the Chico Animal Shelter medical fund.
To provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world.
to provide recovery services to addicts
To utilize the independent study/personalized learning approach supporting development through choice of curriculum necessary for their future success.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Taos Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 101 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 NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READING PALS CHICO ↗
- Who funds ENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ABILITY FIRST SPORTS ↗
- Who funds NORD COUNTRY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HONEY RUN COVERED BRIDGE ASSOCIATIO ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE NORTH VALLEY ↗
- Who funds True North Housing Alliance Inc Torres Shelter ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DURHAM COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRIDLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EVERYBODY HEALTHY BODY ↗
- Who funds Youth for Change ↗
- Who funds CHICO CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds BUTTE COUNTY SHERIFF'S MOUNTED POSSE ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS HOUSING FOUNDATION ↗
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: North Valley Community Foundation · Golden Valley Bank Community · Virginia L Jones Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Richard M Schulze Family Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · The Gap Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Foor 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.
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