How much does Valley First Credit Union give?

Valley First Credit Union reported 6 itemized grants totaling $91,857, out of $163,667 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Valley First Credit Union fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Philanthropy (15%), Employment (14%).

Who are Valley First Credit Union's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Modesto Children's Museum ($180k), Stanislaus Business Alliance Inc ($91k), United Way of Stanislaus County ($45k).

Does Valley First Credit Union fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Valley First Credit Union?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stanislaus Community Foundation, Sutter Valley Hospitals, Amazonsmile Foundation.

Where is Valley First Credit Union based?

Valley First Credit Union is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Public charity

Valley First Credit Union

Working together to provide superior service for our members and community

$164k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 6
Itemized grants FY2024: 7
Organizations funded FY2023: 57%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Itemized, FY2024: $92k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024: $16,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $30,167
Organizations funded a year: 1 to 7; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $1.0B

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 57% of the organizations Valley First Credit Union funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $46k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Community ImprovementArts & CultureEducationReligionFood & NutritionOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	6	$92k	33%
FY2023	7	$126k	57%
FY2022	2	$40k	0%
FY2021	3	$123k	67%
FY2020	2	$13k	50%
FY2019	1	$11k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$192kPhilanthropy$61kEmployment$60kCommunity Improvement$37kReligion$34kEducation$32kRecreation & Sports$5k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Modesto Children's Museum	$180,167	3	13%
Stanislaus Business Alliance Inc	$91,433	4	1%
United Way of Stanislaus County	$45,270	6	1%
City Ministry Network	$33,500	2	2%
Tracy City Center Association	$15,000	1	3%
State Theatre of Modesto Inc	$11,750	1	1%
Stanislaus Latino Chamber of Commerce	$9,000	1	n/a
Stanislaus Latino Chamber of Commerce	$8,000	1	n/a
Clovis Rodeo Association Foundation	$5,200	1	0%
Modesto Improvement Partnership Inc dba Downtown Modesto Partnership	$5,000	1	1%

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Valley First Credit Union supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Stanislaus Community FoundationCA13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Stanislaus Community Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About Valley First Credit Union

How much does Valley First Credit Union give?: Valley First Credit Union reported 6 itemized grants totaling $91,857, out of $163,667 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 7 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Valley First Credit Union fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (46%), Philanthropy (15%), Employment (14%).
Who are Valley First Credit Union's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Modesto Children's Museum ($180k), Stanislaus Business Alliance Inc ($91k), United Way of Stanislaus County ($45k).
Does Valley First Credit Union fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 57% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Valley First Credit Union?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Stanislaus Community Foundation, Sutter Valley Hospitals, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Valley First Credit Union based?: Valley First Credit Union is based in CA.