· Public charity
United Way California Capital Region
The UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION was organized to raise funds for the financing of a variety of charitable, not-for-profit health and welfare organizations.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k49 grants · $344k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $589k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $898k
- $250k+1 grant · $6.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UWCCR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FUNDS DESIGNATED TO AGENCIES BY DONORS DIRECTLY | $6,582,748 |
| AMERICA'S BEST CHARITIES | $215,188 |
| CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES | $165,657 |
| CALIFORNIA HIGHWAY PATROL 11-99 | $132,039 |
| AMERICA'S BEST LOCAL CHARITIES | $83,124 |
| AMERICA'S CHARITIES | $67,216 |
| SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES | $63,304 |
| UNITED WAY BAY AREA | $61,411 |
| SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES | $58,229 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $51,850 |
| SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF | $47,824 |
| EARTHSHARE CALIFORNIA | $43,451 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $43,091 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER LOS ANGELES | $42,046 |
| WEAVE INC | $37,002 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
161 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 84 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $51k 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
- UWUNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION5× · 2021–2025 · $16M · revenue +10% · 41% of their budget
- C1CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +43%
- ABAMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES9× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +12%
Funded once
- UCUWCCR CAPITAL CAMPAIGN FUNDS DESIGNATED TO AGENCIES BY DONORS DIRECTLYone grant, 2022 · $5.2M
FII - NATIONALone grant, 2021 · $3.1M · revenue -75%
ASIAN RESOURCES INCone grant, 2021 · $201k · revenue -5%
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 United Way of Northern California and the most unlike its peers is Folsom Educational Academy. 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 41 years old; the field is 13. 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 — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
185 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. 185 of the 260 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION ↗
- Who funds FII - NATIONAL ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS BEST CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHC CREATING HEALTHIER COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAS BEST LOCAL CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds AMERICA'S CHARITIES ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WEAVE INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL FEDERATION OF CALIFORNIA EARTHSHARE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds United Way of Fresno and Madera Counties ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds SACRAMENTO CHILDREN'S HOME ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF HIGHWAY PATROLMEN WIDOWS AND ORPHANS TRUST ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN DIEGO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL CHARITIES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH NORTHEASTERN & CENTRAL CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Arrowhead United Way ↗
- Who funds INLAND EMPIRE UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds Childrens Receiving Home of Sacramento ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NATION ↗
- Who funds HAPPY TAILS PET SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Greater Sacramento Inc ↗
- Who funds ASIAN RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SLO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY'S UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds California Transportation Foundation ↗
- Who funds INLAND SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY 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 · Federal Employees Support for Cfc Charitable Giving Incorporated · Sierra Health Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Sutter Valley Hospitals · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · Give Back 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 United Way California Capital Region 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
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.