How much did VAQUERO FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of VAQUERO FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

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

2019

homelesssan joaquincancerveteranscatholic education

2020

membershomelesssan joaquinpromotingscholarshipcatholic education

2021

san joaquinhealthministrycemetaryveteranscatholic education

2022

housingministrywomencemetaryveterans

2023

refugeecemetarywomenhealthhospice care

2024

womencemetaryhealthveterans

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

03FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k30 grants · $76k
$10k–50k1 grant · $14k

$1,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

SONG FOR CHARLIE INC$13,800
NAVAL POST GRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION$7,500
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION$6,250
FUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION$6,000
MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION$5,000
LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION$5,000
TOKAY FFA$5,000
SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY - BEA KUTEMAN HARRIS FUND FOR MUSIC$5,000
RANCHO CIELO$3,750
MONTEREY COUNTY FOOD BANK$3,750
CALIFORNIA FOUNDATION FOR AG IN THE CLASSROOM$2,500
COREY'S PROMISE$2,500
CALIFORNIA PATRONS OF THE ARTS$2,450
ST MATHEWS HOUSE$2,000

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 (FY18–24, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 12% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$522k · 48 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 23 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$522k

$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%

+31%

Still filing today

35%

33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

SF
SONG FOR CHARLIE INC
4× · 2021–2024 · $48k · revenue +3096%
SC
SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL
4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +12%
RC
RANCHO CIELO
7× · 2018–2024 · $29k · revenue +89%

Funded once

JR
JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE
one grant, 2023 · $5k
1G
1984 GRUPE FAIR FUNDgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +1599%
SL
ST LAWRENCE MARTYR FOOD PANTRY
one grant, 2023 · $5k

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.

Sunnyvale Community Services

Scs's mission is to prevent homelessness and hunger in our local community.

Human Services

Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights

Community Food Bank of San Benito County

The organization distributes surplus, purchased, and donated food to households facing poverty.

Education

Stanislaus Community Foundation

The vision of Stanislaus Community Foundation is that Stanislaus County is a community of choice where people live, work and thrive. To achieve this vision, Stanislaus Community Foundation's mission is to steward charitable resources and…

Philanthropy

Family Promise of Santa Clarita Valley

With assistance of volunteers from the community and faith groups, the organization works to assist homeless children and their families to achieve sustainable independence, while offering hope, compassion, and preserving individual…

Housing & Shelter

California Veterans Assistance

To provide programs to assist homeless veterans and veterans at risk of becoming homeless with personal skills, training and employment.

Human Services

River City Food Bank

Rcfb's mission is to alleviate hunger in sacramento county.

Community Improvement

Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market

To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.

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League of California

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy

Ccfb Real Estate Inc

Perform charitable functions of and carry out the charitable purposes of central california food bank.

Food & Nutrition

California Forward

California forward (ca fwd) brings people together across regions to improve government and create resilient growth statewide.

Public Benefit

County Supervisors Association of Calif

To represent county government before the california legislature, administrative agencies and support county government.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Mary's Community Services and the most unlike its peers is Santa Catalina School. 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 29 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/41

the rest of the field

12%

9,917/80,388

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.

05the grantee network

39 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)

36/39

Grantees still filing

30/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$353,945Health$61,300Youth Development$60,350Education$52,500Human Services$39,900Food & Nutrition$21,750Recreation & Sports$17,000

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.

The Cortopassi Family FoundationCA20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Cortopassi Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Henry and Carol Zeiter Charitable · San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc · Sunlight Giving · Scott and Kim Negri Family Found · Port City Operating Company LLC · The 54 Fund · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Dunspaugh Dalton Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals

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 VAQUERO 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

2get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

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: MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~2 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 474726974 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 MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS 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

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 2 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 21% of their budget — diversified.
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 Vaquero Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Vaquero Foundation 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.

VAQUERO FOUNDATION

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Vaquero Foundation?

More from the funding graph

VAQUERO FOUNDATION

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?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Vaquero Foundation?

More from the funding graph