· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FORT BRAGG FOOD BANK | $6,000 |
| SFCASA | $5,000 |
| MENDOCINO COAST CHILDREN'S FUND | $5,000 |
| THE WILDCAT SANCTUARY | $5,000 |
| REDWOOD COAST SENIORS | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| ANIMAL HUMANE SOCIETY HUMANE INVESTIGATIONS TEAM | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SF PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| SACRED HEART CATHEDRAL PIRO SCHOLAR PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| TNDC AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAM | $2,000 |
| NO DOG LEFT BEHIND | $2,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST HEARTLAND | $2,000 |
| SAINT IGNATIUS ARRUPE FUNDS | $2,000 |
| SAINT ANTHONY'S | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE HEALDSBURG LIBRARY | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +56% since the first grant, against +5% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 66 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds GEORGIAN COURT UNIVERSITY ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Valla Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valla Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Georgian Court University: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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