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The Irma Ceunis and Simone C Wynant Foundation at a glance

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The Irma Ceunis and Simone C Wynant Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$175k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$65k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Youth Development$677kEnvironment$118kHuman Services$118kFood & Nutrition$100kRecreation & Sports$90kAnimals$60kHealth$35kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COWBOY WRESTING CLUB INC$65,000
Individual grant recipient$40,000
THE CENTER FOR LAND BASED LEARNING$25,000
K&K ANIMAL RESCUE$15,000
UNITED WAY CA CAPITAL REGION$10,000
UNITED FOOD SOURCE INC$10,000
KITTEN CENTRAL$5,000
HEARTS FOR PAWS RESCUE INC$5,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–23, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%EMPOYER YOLO: $10k → 16%EMPOYER YOLO: $10k → 16%EMPOYER YOLO: $10k → 16%EMPOWER YOLO: $10k → 16%EMPOYER YOLO: $10k → 16%YOLO CRISIS NURSERY: $10k → 16%SHORT TERM EMERGENCY AID COMMITTEE: $10k → 16%SHORT TERM EMERGENCY AID COMMITTEE: $10k → 16%SHORT TERM EMERGENCY AID COMMITTEE: $10k → 16%SHORT TERM EMERGENCY AID COMMITTEE: $5k → 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$953k · 17 repeat orgs$264k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +75% since the first grant, against +34% for those funded once.

17 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
15

Total granted

$953k
$169k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+34%

Still filing today

41%
20%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEnvironmentYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • YF
    YOLO FOOD BANK
    3× · 2017–2022 · $90k · revenue +75%
  • CF
    Center for Land-Based Learning
    4× · 2017–2024 · $83k · revenue +238%
  • Empower Yolo Inc
    5× · 2018–2023 · $50k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF HAMILTON CITY FFA
    one grant, 2018 · $25k
  • YC
    YOLO COUNTY SPAY & NEUTER GRO
    one grant, 2021 · $25k
  • SU
    SUTTER UNION HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
Yolo Land Trust

The mission of the yolo land trust is to protect agricultural and habitat land in yolo county.

Environment
2
Meals On Wheels Yolo County

To nourish and engage seniors in Yolo County.

Food & Nutrition
3
Bear Yuba Land Trust

Bear Yuba Land Trust exists to conserve and protect the natural, working, and cultural lands in the Bear and Yuba River watersheds and empower a healthy, resilient community through nature access and education.

Environment
4
Yolo Healthy Aging Alliance

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

Human Services
5
Bright Futures for Youth

To ignite the potential of youth today for vibrant communities tomorrow. We offer positive experiences, environments and relationships and a foundation for youth to grow, learn and develop into happy, self-sufficient young adults.

Human Services
6
Sequoia Riverlands Trust

We conserve the lands and waters of California's heartland.

Environment
7
The California Center for Civic Participation

To educate california youth about the operations of local, state, and federal government.

Public Benefit
8
Yolo Wayfarer Center Christian Fourth and Hope

Provide food, clothing, shelter, and residential treatment services to the homeless. Outreach and transitional housing services are also provided.

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9
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
10
Yuba River Charter School

Yuba River Charter School provides K-8 public Waldorf education that nurtures the physical, emotional and intellectual capacities of the child through a developmentally appropriate curriculum. YRCS brings forth the academic, social,…

Education
11
Yolo Employment Services Inc

Yolo Employment Services was formed to assist individuals with disabilities as anon-profit public benefit corporation. The purpose of the Organization is to provide rehabilitation services and work experience in a sheltered or integrated…

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12
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance

At Yosemite Rivers Alliance, we unite conservation and community to protect and restore the three rivers that ?ow through the Yosemite Regionthe Tuolumne, Stanislaus, and Merced.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Empower Yolo Inc; the most unlike its peers is Ride to Walk Inc. 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

11 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. 11 of the 37 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $180,001 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWOODLAND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION: $95,000 · OtherWOODLAND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $78,700 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOWBOY WRESTING CLUB INC: $65,000 · OtherCOWBOY WRESTING CLUB INCYOLO COUNTY UNITED WAY: $50,000 · OtherYOLO COUNTY UNITED WAYMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUN: $31,000 · OtherCHILDRENS HOPE: $30,500 · OtherROCKY MOUNTAIN ELK FOUNDATION: $26,500 · Other+19 more: $230,700 · Other+19 moreCenter for Land-Based Learning: $82,500 · EnvironmentCenter for…Yolo Basin Foundation: $35,000 · EnvironmentYolo Basin…Empower Yolo Inc: $50,000 · Human ServicesSHORT TERM EMERGENCY AID COMMITTEE: $35,000 · Human ServicesYolo Crisis Nursery: $10,000 · Human ServicesYOLO FOOD BANK: $90,000 · Food & NutritionNATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $70,000 · Arts & CultureALL LEADERS MUST SERVE: $35,000 · Youth DevelopmentSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $12,000 · Youth DevelopmentUNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION: $10,000 · Philanthropy
Other$787,401Environment$117,500Human Services$95,000Food & Nutrition$90,000Arts & Culture$70,000Youth Development$47,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYOLO FOOD BANK: $90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCenter for Land-Based Learning: $82,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME: $70,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetEmpower Yolo Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSHORT TERM EMERGENCY AID COMMITTEE: $35,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetALL LEADERS MUST SERVE: $35,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetYolo Basin Foundation: $35,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetSIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS: $12,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYolo Crisis Nursery: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRIDE TO WALK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetUNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION: $10,000 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 FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds Center for Land-Based Learning ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL WRESTLING HALL OF FAME ↗
  • Who funds Empower Yolo Inc ↗
  • Who funds SHORT TERM EMERGENCY AID COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds ALL LEADERS MUST SERVE ↗
  • Who funds Yolo Basin Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SIERRA NEVADA JOURNEYS ↗
  • Who funds Yolo Crisis Nursery ↗
  • Who funds RIDE TO WALK INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION ↗

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.

Teichert FoundationSacramento Region Com…Clark Pacific Foundat…Kelly FoundationSierra Health Foundat…Yolo Community Founda…Sutter Valley Hospita…Union Pacific Foundat…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…
Teichert FoundationCA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Teichert Foundation · Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Clark Pacific Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Yolo Community Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Union Pacific Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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 Irma Ceunis and Simone C Wynant Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Irma Ceunis and Simone C Wynant Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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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    Find your warmest path to The Irma Ceunis and Simone C Wynant 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 37 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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