· Private foundation
The Valley Rock 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 $10k8 grants · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $9.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Westmont College | $9,292,772 |
| Calistoga Community Church | $100,000 |
| Operation with Love from Home | $5,000 |
| Victory Christian Academy | $1,000 |
| NAPA COUNTY Animal Response Team | $1,000 |
| Victory Christian Academy | $1,000 |
| Trinity Forum Inc | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350 |
| Yountvillesuncom | $240 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
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 (FY19–24, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
21 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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
- WCWESTMONT COLLEGE3× · 2019–2024 · $10M · revenue +11%
- NCNATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $5.0M · revenue ×103
SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION2× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- SHSAINT HELENA CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $500k
- MPMADDIE'S PLACEgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue +236%
- OHOLE HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -1%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life and the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Hogar Rafael Ayau. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 67 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 WESTMONT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SANTA BARBARA RESCUE MISSION ↗
- Who funds MADDIE'S PLACE ↗
- Who funds OLE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEEN OF THE VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Compassion International Incorporated ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP FOR PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds FIGHT COLORECTAL CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds Special Operations Fund ↗
- Who funds YOUNG LIFE ↗
- Who funds St Helena Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Victory Christian Academy ↗
- Who funds TORCHBEARERS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NEWS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HOGAR RAFAEL AYAU ↗
- Who funds YELLOW ROOF FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION WITH LOVE FROM HOME ↗
- Who funds TRINITY FORUM 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: Craig and Kathryn Hall Foundation · Peter a & Vernice H Gasser Foundation · Community Foundation of the Napa Valley · Peter Luce Foundation · Napa Valley Vintners Healthy Community Fund · McNabb Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Edward Jones 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 Valley Rock 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.