How much did VALLEY STRONG CU FKA grant in FY2024?

Education$3.4MPhilanthropy$522kHealth$258kHuman Services$137kInternational$103kArts & Culture$97kYouth Development$46kPublic Benefit$45kCrime & Legal$20kOther$1.7M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

raisedonorsplacegreatestmedicalenhancehealth systems

2021

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2022

business industrygrowingeducationalyouthimprovinghealthgrowth

2023

visiondrivingexpandingcreditgrowingbusiness industrylives

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k11 grants · $73k
$10k–50k29 grants · $541k
$50k–250k3 grants · $293k
$250k+2 grants · $811k

$12,965

Median grant

States reached

$3.9B

Total assets

Largest grants

BAKERSFIELD COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$500,000
CSUB FOUNDATION$310,500
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITALS$117,500
CUSPINCDBA CU STRATEGIC PLANNING$105,000
GREATER BAKERSFIELD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$70,000
KERN COUNTY SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS EDUCATIONAL$40,000
KERN HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT$40,000
BAKERSFIELD WOMEN'S BUSINESS CONFERENCE$35,000
MENDIBURU MAGIC FOUNDATION AGAINST CANCER$30,200
MEALS ON WHEELS OF SOLANO COUNTY INC$28,400
GLOBAL FAMILY CARE NETWORK INC$27,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$25,000
CALIFORNIA FORWARD$25,000
KERN COUNTY HISPANIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE$25,000
TAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18% — the area typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 9% of VALLEY STRONG CU FKA’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

VALLEY STRONG CU FKAlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 7.9% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.2M · 32 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.2M

$837k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%

+17%

Still filing today

84%

74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $285k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

KC
KERN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
4× · 2020–2024 · $262k · revenue +134%
CM
CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK HOSPITALS
4× · 2020–2024 · $247k · revenue +31%
TC
TAFT COLLEGE FOUNDATION
2× · 2022–2024 · $135k · revenue +61%

Funded once

FF
FCCU2 FOUNDATION
one grant, 2022 · $250k · revenue -93% · 68% of their budget
FF
FCCU2 FOUNDATION
one grant, 2023 · $250k
BM
BAKERSFIELD MUSIC THEATRE
one grant, 2020 · $92k · revenue +2%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Kern County Cancer Foundation

Dedicated to assisting kern county residents who need financial assistance in obtaining treatment for cancer and associated diseases.

Health

Kern Medical Center Foundation

Kern medical center foundation is dedicated to promote education and programs that support the mission of kern medical center

Health

Kern County Library Foundation

Education

Kern Economic Development

Education and research. a research based and educational organization that supports kern county businesses and communities in reaching their full economic potential.

Community Improvement

California Chamber of Commerce

Represent members and cal employers to members of cal legislature and other agencies of state government through in-house legislative analysts, lobbying staff, and contract lobbyists. cal chamber publishes books and software related to…

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Kern County Museum Foundation

The specific purpose of the foundation is to provide operational support by employing staff and engaging in the day-to-day operations of the kern county museum to preserve historic artifacts, documents, photographs, structures,…

Arts & Culture

Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of

The Sacramento Metropolitan Chamber of Commerce advocates for and supports economic success of its members and the six-county capital region by leading the effort to grow and retain business.

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Cbcc Foundation for Community Wellness

Serving the educational, financial, and emotional needs of kern county cancer patients and their families. providing assistance to individuals with financial hardship to relieve medical debt.

Health

Kern Real Estate Foundation

Kern real estate foundation functions exclusively to benefit and support the kern community foundation.

Philanthropy

Central California Food Bank

Distribute food to the hungry in fresno, madera, tulare, kern and kings county.

Food & Nutrition

United Way of Central Eastern California

The mission of the united way of kern county is to "mobilize donors, advocates and volunteers to improve lives in kern county." the organization accomplishes this by raising and investing financial resources in programs that advance the…

Philanthropy

Fresno Chamber of Commerce

Enhancing and supporting private sector business

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kern Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The 54 Fund. 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 41 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 26% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%1/71

the rest of the field

12%

1,973/16,015

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.

06the grantee network

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

55/57

Grantees still filing

40/57

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$3,354,705Other$1,828,655Philanthropy$521,700Health$257,700Human Services$137,319International$102,500Arts & Culture$96,817

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.

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.

Kern Community FoundationCA44.8× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kern Community Foundation · San Joaquin Community Hospital · Dignity Health · Bakersfield Memorial Hospital · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Seedcore Foundation · The Skeet Varner Foundation · The Virginia and Alfred Harrell · Louis and Sheryl Barbich Foundation · Bakersfield West Rotary-Stroope · The California Endowment · California Community 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 organisation VALLEY STRONG CU FKA 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FCCU2 FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~21 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 871724276 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FCCU2 FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 21 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 68% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Valley Strong Cu Fka?

Find your warmest path to Valley Strong Cu Fka through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

VALLEY STRONG CU FKA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Valley Strong Cu Fka?

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VALLEY STRONG CU FKA

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

57 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Valley Strong Cu Fka?

More from the funding graph