· Private foundation
The George and Lena Valente 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 $10k9 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $400k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $60,000 |
| YOLO HOSPICE | $50,000 |
| JOSHUA'S HOUSE | $50,000 |
| YOLO FOOD BANK | $30,000 |
| CHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| YOLO CRISIS NURSERY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| OKIZU FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THRIVING PINK | $25,000 |
| SACRAMETO COMMUNITY REGION FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| DAVIS COMMUNITY MEALS | $20,000 |
| UC DAVIS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
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, $310k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +90% since the first grant, against +73% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- YHYOLO HOSPICE INC5× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +108%
- YFYOLO FOOD BANK6× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +75%
- OFOKIZU FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +100%
Funded once
- YCYOLO CARESone grant, 2022 · $75k
- MFMERCY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +73%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICOone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…
Work together to improve the lives of children, youth, and families in our communities.the childrens alliance is an inter-agency collaborative, which coordinates needed family support services,convenes child and family advocates to solve…
Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.
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…
The mission of Family Services is to help children, adults, and families throughout Tulare County heal from violence and thrive in healthy relationships. Family Services will accomplish this mission through direct services, advocacy,…
Our mission is to reach out and provide assistance to anyone in need in our community, especially the poor and disadvantaged. we offer health and social service programs that contribute to the individual's freedom and independence, while…
The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.
To promote the well being of older adults in Yolo County through education, collaboration and advocacy.
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
Ensuring consistency and support for children in the foster care system through the use of volunteer advocates advancing the best interests of each child.
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
FoodLink is committed to ending hunger by providing healthy food and nutrition education to those in need through community involvement.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yolo Hospice Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Ark Preschool. 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 44 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 50 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 YOLO HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds YOLO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Yolo Crisis Nursery ↗
- Who funds DAVIS COMMUNITY MEALS ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds THRIVING PINK INC ↗
- Who funds DAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds YOLO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds WARMLINE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Family Promise of Sacramento ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ↗
- Who funds WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHOICE IN AGING ↗
- Who funds YOLO COUNTY SPCA ↗
- Who funds MAKE IT HAPPEN FOR YOLO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds DAVIS LITTLE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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 · Kelly Foundation · United Way California Capital Region · Sutter Valley Hospitals · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Beneto Foundation · Dignity Community Care · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Yolo Community Foundation · Travis Credit Union's Community Financial Wellness Fund · Sierra Health 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 George and Lena Valente 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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