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United Way of Northern California

To improve lives in northern california by focusing on education, financial stability and health by mobilizing and integrating resources and the caring power of the community.

$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
35
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$42k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Public Safety & Disaster$2.7MHealth$333kHousing & Shelter$287kHuman Services$182kPhilanthropy$80kCivil Rights$75kArts & Culture$54kEducation$49kOther$0
02FY2024 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 35 grants below total $542,038, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,410,977 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $868,939 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k11 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $455k
$13,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLUMAS RURAL SERVICES$42,000
2-1-1 HUMBOLDT$37,500
TENGX CENTER OF THE NORTHSTATE INC$36,000
HELP CENTRAL INC$32,000
NORTHERN VALLEY CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICE INC$24,800
AFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY & CULTURAL CENTER$22,000
STONEWALL ALLIANCE OF CHICO$20,300
LASSEN INDIAN HEALTH CENTER$19,500
OROVILLE SOUTHSIDE COMM IMPROVEMENT ASSOC$19,000
BETHEL AFRICAN METHODIST EPISCOPAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION$18,000
OROVILLE HOPE CENTER$17,500
TEHAMA COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL$16,500
SAFE SPACE WINTER SHELTER INC$15,000
RESOURCES FOR INDIAN STUDENT EDUCATION INC$15,000
DISABILITY ACTION CENTER$15,000
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 (FY17–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, 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%PLUMAS RURAL SERVICES: $55k → 13%PATH: $8k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $284k → 14%HUMAN RESOURCES NETWORK: $17k → 17%OROVILLE RESCUE MISSION: $28k → 18%PLUMAS RURAL SERVICES: $42k → 13%TENGX CENTER OF THE NORTHSTATE INC: $36k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $125k → 14%HAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION: $68k → 16%PLUMAS RURAL SERVICES: $25k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100k → 14%HAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $10k → 16%LASSEN FAMILY SERVICES INC: $8k → 17%TRAINING EMPLOYMENT & COMMUNITY HELP: $14k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%TEACH: $12k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%HUMAN RESPONSE NETWORK: $6k → 17%SISKIYOU COMMUNITY RSRC COLLB: $40k → 16%HELP CENTRAL INC: $68k → 18%HELP CENTRAL INC: $32k → 18%SISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE: $15k → 16%HELP CENTRAL INC: $21k → 18%FAR NORTHERN REGIONAL CENTER: $8k → 14%GOOD NEWS RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 14%ONE SAFE PLACE: $28k → 14%VALLEY OAK CHILDRENS SRVS: $20k → 18%CARING CHOICES: $38k → 18%DISABILITY ACTION CENTER: $15k → 18%HELP CENTRAL INC: $8k → 18%LOCAL INDIANS FOR EDUCATION INC: $6k → 14%OROVILLE HOPE CENTER: $18k → 18%HOPE CENTER: $10k → 18%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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 24 repeat orgs$1.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +35% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
46

Total granted

$1.9M
$1.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+35%

Still filing today

88%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $320k 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 ServicesEducationPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterPublic Safety & DisasterArts & CultureOther
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

  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    5× · 2018–2023 · $544k · revenue +9%
  • TN
    True North Housing Alliance Inc Torres Shelter
    2× · 2019–2020 · $163k · revenue +374%
  • HC
    HELP CENTRAL INC
    4× · 2017–2024 · $128k · revenue +266%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CALIFORNIA WELLNESS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $251k · revenue -84%
  • SH
    SIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $235k · revenue +37%
  • CF
    Camp Fire Long-Term Recovery Group dba Camp Fire Collaborative
    one grant, 2021 · $190k · revenue -40%
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
Willits Community Services Inc

The primary goal of Willits Community Services is to provide temporary assistance services to families and individuals in crisis. WCS also provides referrals to other community or regional resources and gives assistance to clients in…

Human Services
2
Sharing & Caring

Sharing and Caring assists the poor and needy in the Tehachapi, California community through providing: 1) rent/shelter & utility payments; 2) food assistance; 3) holiday meals & holiday gifts for children & their families who would…

Food & Nutrition
3
Amador Fire Safe Council

Protect the people of amador county and their property from the effects of catastrophic fires through education, cooperation, innovation and action

Public Safety & Disaster
4
Northwest California Resource Conservation & Development Council

Activities within trinity, humboldt, del norte county, siskiyou and mendocino counties and to recruit and administer financial capital for such purposes.

Community Improvement
5
Central Valley Gender Health & Wellness
Civil Rights
6
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
7
Homeless Resource Council of the Sierras

To lead, collaborate, coordinate, develop, and implement strategies and resources to end homelessness in Nevada and Placer counties.

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8
Sonoma Mountain Institute
Environment
9
City of Refuge Sacramento

City of Refuge Sacramento, a community-based organization, exists to support people living in marginalized communities of Sacramento and to empower their ability to create a personal transformation that will lead to a healthy and thriving…

Human Services
10
Hands of Hope Resources for Homeless Families

Hands of Hope works to enhance the quality of life in the Yuba-Sutter area by: Providing core support services to the homeless; Reintegrating the homeless within our community; Engaging the community to respond to the challenge of…

Housing & Shelter
11
Siskiyou Land Conservancy

The Siskiyou Land Conservancy is a state and federally approved non-profit organization that assists landowners who want to protect the natural values of their land, either through purchase or establishment of conservation easements.

Environment
12
Kings Tulare Continuum of Care on Homelessness Inc

To provide services to organizations in the form of organizing training opportunities and providing networking and referral opportunities.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation; the most unlike its peers is S H Cowell Foundation. 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

77 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. 77 of the 94 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
74/77
Grantees still filing
50/77
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $544,141 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Co…HELP CENTRAL INC: $127,790 · Human ServicesHELP CENTRAL INCPlumas Rural Services Inc: $121,550 · Human ServicesPlumas Rural Services IncHAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $78,000 · Human ServicesHAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INCSISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE: $55,000 · Human Services+15 more: $322,000 · Human Services+15 moreGRANTS LESS THAN 5000: $192,619 · OtherGRANTS LESS THAN 5000WEED RECREATION & PARKS DIST: $105,608 · OtherWEED RECREATION & PARKS DISTCAL POLY HUMBOLDT: $81,825 · OtherCAL POLY HUMBOLDTTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $112,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFIC…Tehama Together Inc: $55,000 · Other+48 more: $783,364 · Other+48 moreTHE CALIFORNIA WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $251,119 · PhilanthropyTHE CALIFO…UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION: $65,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY…Corning Community Foundation: $38,700 · PhilanthropyCorning Co…+2 more: $15,333 · PhilanthropySIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $235,435 · HealthPLUMAS CRISIS INTERVENTION AND RESOURCE CENTER: $50,000 · HealthTrue North Housing Alliance Inc Torres Shelter: $163,000 · Housing & ShelterChico Housing Action Team: $91,800 · Housing & ShelterSAFE SPACE WINTER SHELTER INC: $15,000 · Housing & Shelter+1 more: $6,900 · Housing & ShelterCamp Fire Long-Term Recovery Group dba Camp Fire Collaborative: $190,000 · Public Safety & DisasterPROJECTCAMP: $25,000 · Public Safety & DisasterYANKEE HILL FIRE SAFE COUNCIL: $13,500 · Public Safety & DisasterNAPA VALLEY COMMUNITY ORGS ACTIVE IN DISASTER: $9,000 · Public Safety & DisasterShasta Builders Exchange Community Fund: $61,655 · EducationSTONEWALL ALLIANCE OF CHICO: $47,000 · EducationThe Trade School at SBE Inc: $30,000 · EducationRESOURCES FOR INDIAN STUDENT EDUCATION: $15,000 · EducationSHASTA COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $8,000 · EducationIndian Cultural Organization: $6,000 · Education
Human Services$1,248,481Other$1,330,416Philanthropy$370,152Health$285,435Housing & Shelter$276,700Public Safety & Disaster$237,500Education$167,655

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $544,141 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALIFORNIA WELLNESS FOUNDATION: $251,119 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSIERRA HEALTH FOUNDATION: $235,435 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCamp Fire Long-Term Recovery Group dba Camp Fire Collaborative: $190,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTrue North Housing Alliance Inc Torres Shelter: $163,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetHELP CENTRAL INC: $127,790 over 4y, 12% of budgetPlumas Rural Services Inc: $121,550 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY WORLD SERVICE OFFICE: $112,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetChico Housing Action Team: $91,800 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHAPPY CAMP COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $78,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetUNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION: $65,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetShasta Builders Exchange Community Fund: $61,655 over 1y, 17% of budgetSISKIYOU COMMUNITY RESOURCE COLLABORATIVE: $55,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTehama Together Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 39% of budgetPLUMAS CRISIS INTERVENTION AND RESOURCE CENTER: $50,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSTONEWALL ALLIANCE OF CHICO: $47,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION NORTH: $43,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetOROVILLE SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC: $42,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetNORTHERN VALLEY CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICE INC: $40,266 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA RESOURCE CENTER: $40,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetCaring Choices Inc: $37,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budget2-1-1 Humboldt Information and Resource Center: $37,500 over 1y, 14% of budgetTengx Center of the Northstate Inc: $36,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetSHASTA WOMEN'S REFUGE INC DBA ONE SAFE PLACE: $33,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Trade School at SBE Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetOROVILLE RESCUE MISSION INC: $28,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetOroville Hope Center: $27,500 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetTraining Employment & Community Help Inc: $25,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRedding Chamber of Commerce: $25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetPROJECTCAMP: $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetThe American Legion: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern California Child Development Inc: $24,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTRINITY COUNTY FOOD ASSISTANCE: $22,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN FAMILY & CULTURAL CENTER: $22,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTiny Mighty and Strong Corporation: $20,305 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVALLEY OAK CHILDREN'S SERVICES INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYuba-Sutter-Colusa United Way: $20,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetRED BLUFF-TEHAMA COUNTY CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $20,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCommunity Connections Corporation: $18,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetTEHAMA COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL: $16,500 over 1y, 17% of budgetRESOURCES FOR INDIAN STUDENT EDUCATION: $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetDisability Action Center: $15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSAFE SPACE WINTER SHELTER INC: $15,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetPARADISE & ALLIED COMMUNITIES CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $15,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetYANKEE HILL FIRE SAFE COUNCIL: $13,500 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetSiskiyou Community Food Bank: $13,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetShasta County Child Abuse Prevention Coordinating Council: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM: $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.

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.

North Valley Communit…Community Foundation …The McConnell Foundat…California Fire Found…Sierra Health Foundat…California Foundation…Dignity HealthFood Bank of Contra C…The Ford Family Found…Humboldt Area Foundat…The Albertsons Compan…Public Health Institu…
North Valley Community FoundationCA61.5× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: North Valley Community Foundation · Community Foundation of the North State · The McConnell Foundation · California Fire Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation Center for Health Program Management · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Dignity Health · Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano · The Ford Family Foundation · Humboldt Area Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Public Health Institute

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 United Way of Northern California funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from United Way of Northern California. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    32report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 94 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 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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