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Valla Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT BRAGG FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| MENDOCINO COAST CHILDREN'S FUND | $5,000 |
| SFCASA | $5,000 |
| REDWOOD COAST SENIORS | $2,500 |
| SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PIRO SCHOLAR PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| SAINT IGNATIUS ARRUPE FUNDS | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY HUMANE INVESTIGATIONS TEAM | $2,000 |
| TNDC AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SF PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $2,000 |
| NO DOG LEFT BEHIND | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| 10000 DEGREES | $1,000 |
| GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
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, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% 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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- MFMendocino Food and Nutrition Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +295%
- MCMENDOCINO COAST CHILDRENS FUND9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +56%
- RFREACH FOR HOME4× · 2017–2022 · $23k · revenue +231%
Funded once
- DADEMARILLAC ACADEMYone grant, 2020 · $15k
- ATAT THE CROSSROADSone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -46%
- QOQUIET OAKSone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +8%
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.
Prevention of pet abuse, neglect, and over-population by providing temporary and permanent homes for abandoned cats and dogs and providing neutering and spaying services for these animals.
See Schedule OFriends supports the free public libraries of San Francisco. We provide funding and conduct advocacy and outreach to ensure that all people have equal access to the information, resources and support that our libraries…
We work in cooperation with humane organizations shelters and other groups interested in animal rescue. We rescue domestic animals and place them in nurturing foster homes. All animals are evaluated altered and vaccinated prior to…
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Northern California Sled Dog Rescue (NORSLED) is an all volunteer non-profit group dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating, fostering and finding new homes for unwanted, abused and abandoned siberian huskies, alaskan malamutes, samoyeds and…
High Sierra Animal Rescues mission is to save the lives of homeless dogs in the regions served. Our staff and volunteers are dedicated to making our communities better through successful adoptions advancing their welfare and creating human…
Pets Lifeline is dedicated to protecting and improving the lives of cats and dogs in need in Sonoma Valley through sheltering and adoption, humane education, and community programs.
The Santa Cruz SPCA provides safe harbor for animals in need and promotes an active humane community through adoption, advocacy, and education.
Conduct animal rescues, rehabilitation and rehome senior animals abandoned to the shelter's system.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
To operate a community library for information retrieval and enjoyment by the general public.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is At the Crossroads and the most unlike its peers is Bad Rap. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 66 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 826 NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc ↗
- Who funds MENDOCINO COAST CHILDRENS FUND ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR HOME ↗
- Who funds THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds 826 National Inc ↗
- Who funds No Dog Left Behind ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND ↗
- Who funds Mendocino Coast Humane Society ↗
- Who funds SAINT ANTHONYS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOND BETWEEN ↗
- Who funds AT THE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds GEYSERVILLE EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HEALDSBURG EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Humane Society for Inland Mendocino County ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HEALDSBURG LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CORAZON 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: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Xcel Energy Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Valla Family 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.
- Georgian Court University — 1% 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.
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