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The George and Lena Valente Foundation at a glance

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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.

$604k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.9MFood & Nutrition$655kEducation$585kHuman Services$350kHousing & Shelter$325kCommunity Improvement$195kCrime & Legal$140kYouth Development$105kOther$0
02FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $400k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $160k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$9.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UC DAVIS SCHOOL OF MEDICINE$60,000
JOSHUA'S HOUSE$50,000
YOLO HOSPICE$50,000
CHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
YOLO FOOD BANK$30,000
CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL$30,000
THRIVING PINK$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
OKIZU FOUNDATION$25,000
YOLO CRISIS NURSERY$25,000
DAVIS COMMUNITY MEALS$20,000
SACRAMETO COMMUNITY REGION FOUNDATION$20,000
UC DAVIS FOUNDATION$20,000
LOAVES AND FISHES$20,000
WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: $15k → 12%FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: $10k → 12%FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: $5k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 12%WIND YOUTH SERVICES: $10k → 12%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $55k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $35k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $25k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $25k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $25k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $25k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 41 repeat orgs$180k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +94% since the first grant, against +73% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
6

Total granted

$4.4M
$160k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+94%
+73%

Still filing today

56%
17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationAnimalsHousing & ShelterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • YH
    YOLO HOSPICE INC
    5× · 2017–2024 · $300k · revenue +108%
  • OF
    OKIZU FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +100%
  • YF
    YOLO FOOD BANK
    6× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • YC
    YOLO CARES
    one grant, 2022 · $75k
  • MF
    MERCY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +73%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
California Alliance of Caregivers

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…

Health
2
Yolo County Childrens Alliance

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…

Crime & Legal
3
Casa of Solano County

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.

Civil Rights
4
San Francisco Casa

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…

Civil Rights
5
Family Services of Tulare County Inc

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,…

Human Services
6
Catholic Charities of Yolo-Solano

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…

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7
Court Appointed Special Advocates

The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.

Civil Rights
8
Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance

To promote the well being of older adults in Yolo County through education, collaboration and advocacy.

Human Services
9
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
10
Court Appointed Special Advocates of Sacramento County

Ensuring consistency and support for children in the foster care system through the use of volunteer advocates advancing the best interests of each child.

Civil Rights
11
FosterHope Sacramento

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

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12
Foodlink for Tulare County Inc

FoodLink is committed to ending hunger by providing healthy food and nutrition education to those in need through community involvement.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Yolo Hospice Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $395,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVISUCD MIND INSTITUTE: $300,000 · OtherUCD MIND INSTITUTEYOLO HOSPICE INC: $300,000 · OtherYOLO HOSPICE INCCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL: $200,000 · OtherCRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOLCHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL OF SACRAMENTO INC: $200,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN BROTHERS HIGH SCHOOL OF SACRAMENTO INCUC DAVIS MEDICAL CENTER MIND INSTITUTE: $200,000 · OtherUC DAVIS MEDICAL CENTER MIND INSTITUTEOKIZU FOUNDATION: $195,000 · OtherOKIZU FOUNDATIONSACRAMETO COMMUNITY REGION FOUNDATION: $195,000 · OtherSACRAMETO COMMUNITY REGION FOUNDATIONJOSHUA'S HOUSE: $150,000 · OtherYOLO ADULT DAY HEALTH CENTER: $130,000 · OtherLOAVES AND FISHES: $125,000 · Other+22 more: $795,000 · Other+22 moreYolo Crisis Nursery: $190,000 · Human ServicesFLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesWIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesMAKE IT HAPPEN FOR YOLO COUNTY: $45,204 · Human ServicesYOLO FOOD BANK: $195,000 · Food & NutritionDAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE: $100,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more: $5,000 · Food & NutritionTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $140,000 · EducationFamily Promise of Sacramento: $65,000 · EducationWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $60,000 · EducationTHRIVING PINK INC: $110,000 · HealthMERCY FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthCHOICE IN AGING: $50,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 · HealthSacramento Life Center Inc: $10,000 · HealthDAVIS COMMUNITY MEALS: $160,000 · Housing & ShelterYOLO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $95,000 · Civil Rights
Other$3,185,000Human Services$355,204Food & Nutrition$300,000Education$265,000Health$245,000Housing & Shelter$160,000Civil Rights$95,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOLO HOSPICE INC: $300,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION: $195,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetYOLO FOOD BANK: $195,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYolo Crisis Nursery: $190,000 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetDAVIS COMMUNITY MEALS: $160,000 over 6y, 4.0% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES: $125,000 over 6y, 13% of budgetTHRIVING PINK INC: $110,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetDAVIS FARMERS MARKET ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 6y, 60% of budgetYOLO COUNTY COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES: $95,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetWARMLINE FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER: $85,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetFLY BRAVE FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Promise of Sacramento: $65,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetWOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT: $60,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHOICE IN AGING: $50,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWIND YOUTH SERVICES INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetYOLO COUNTY SPCA: $48,500 over 7y, 5.4% of budgetMAKE IT HAPPEN FOR YOLO COUNTY: $45,204 over 4y, 18% of budgetDAVIS LITTLE LEAGUE: $40,000 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $32,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARK PRESCHOOL: $15,000 over 3y, 33% of budgetSAFE PASSAGES: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSacramento Life Center Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORTH OUR WEIGHT: $5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS YOLO COUNTY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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 YOLO HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOLO FOOD BANK ↗
  • 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 FLY BRAVE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Family Promise of Sacramento ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN'S EMPOWERMENT ↗
  • Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHOICE IN AGING ↗
  • Who funds WIND YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Sacramento Region Com…Teichert FoundationKelly FoundationUnited Way California…Sutter Valley Hospita…California Foundation…Beneto FoundationDignity Community CareKaiser Foundation Hos…Yolo Community Founda…Travis Credit Union's…Sierra Health Foundat…
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA39.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The George and Lena Valente Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The George and Lena Valente Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The George and Lena Valente Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The George and Lena Valente Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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