· Private foundation
Vaquero Foundation
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k44 grants · $113k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MONTEREY COUNTY FOOD BANK | $13,500 |
| SONG FOR CHARLIE INC | $11,000 |
| NAVAL POST GRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| ST LAWRENCE MARTYR FOOD PANTRY | $7,000 |
| LOYOLA HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO RECREATION AND PARKS | $5,000 |
| EAST CONTRA COSTA HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| INTERSECTION OF ARTS FAULT RADI | $5,000 |
| LIFEMOVES | $5,000 |
| SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| RANCHO CIELO | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–26, $85k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
64 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2026, 28 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
- SFSONG FOR CHARLIE INC6× · 2021–2026 · $72k · revenue +285%
- FBFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY10× · 2017–2026 · $61k · revenue +55%
- SCSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL6× · 2017–2026 · $55k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- JRJESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE USAone grant, 2023 · $5k
- SCSANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY - BEA KUTEMAN HARRIS FUND FOR MUSICone grant, 2024 · $5k
- SBST BASIL GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
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…
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Our mission is to provide food, nutritional education, and advocacy for those in need within san benito county, while pursuing our ultimate vision that no resident will suffer from hunger or malnutrition in san benito county.
California coast credit union (credit union) is a cooperative, organized for the purpose of promoting thrift and savings among its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and…
Our mission is to support california farmers and communities by providing farmers markets for our diverse bay area neighborhoods. we do this by operating certified farmers markets in six bay area counties. these farmers markets provide…
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
Children's law center of california (clc) provides legal representation for children and youth impacted by abuse and neglect. we advocate for our clients by supporting families; fighting for reunification, permanence, educational…
The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is East ContraCosta Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
75 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 75 of the 130 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 SONG FOR CHARLIE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RANCHO CIELO INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE CITIZENS FOUNDATION DBA THE FIRST TEE OF MONTEREY COUNTY ↗
- Who funds NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARY GRAHAM CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds St Anne Village Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds MONTAGE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds READY TO WORK ↗
- Who funds COREYS PROMISE ↗
- Who funds ST MATTHEWS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LEAGUE OF FOOD PRODUCERS ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc ↗
- Who funds Village Community Resource Center ↗
- Who funds THE THOMAS SCULLY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STONY BROOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Long Island Cares 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: The Cortopassi Family Foundation · The 54 Fund · San Joaquin Community Foundation Inc · Henry and Carol Zeiter Charitable Foundation · Crete Family Foundation · Port City Operating Company LLC · The Antone and Marie Raymus Foundation · Sunlight Giving · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Stockton Rotary Endowment · The James Irvine Foundation · The Gordon T and Melissa a Egan Family 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 organization 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% 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.