· Public charity
Ventura County Credit Union
VENTURA COUNTY 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 providing an opportunity for them to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in order to improve their…
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $218,013 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $269,247 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $51,234 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k6 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $112k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOOD SHARE INC | $111,505 |
| THE FOUNDATION OF VCCU | $48,592 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY | $12,600 |
| WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS | $10,000 |
| INCLUSIV | $7,500 |
| INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC | $6,500 |
| VC FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION | $6,103 |
| MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY | $5,100 |
| MAKE A WISH TRI-COUNTIES | $5,100 |
| WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES | $5,013 |
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 (FY17–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of Ventura County Credit Union’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.
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- TFTHE FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY CREDIT UNION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $219k · revenue +9% · 48% of their budget
- FSFOOD SHARE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $137k · revenue +34%
- CMCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK4× · 2019–2023 · $44k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- HCHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION FOR VENTURA COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +4%
- NCNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -11%
- RREACHone grant, 2023 · $6k
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.
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…
To strengthen and sustain vibrant communities by empowering individuals and families to build wealth through education and homeownership with a primary focus on serving low-to-moderate income clients.
To improve, in partnership with others, access to needed health care for the most vulnerable and underserved children and seniors of ventura county.
As your financial institution, we pledge to serve you and our community faithfully. we will be friendly, helpful, and professional, and we will provide great products and competitive rates.
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We invest in, partner with, and amplify the community to build a good life.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central Coast and Southern Central Valley and the most unlike its peers is Reach. 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 43 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.
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 THE FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY CREDIT UNION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD SHARE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Interface Children Family Services ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL COAST AND SOUTHERN CENTRAL VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INCLUSIV INC ↗
- Who funds PREMIER AMERICA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION FOR VENTURA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REACH ↗
- Who funds Ventura Co Deputy Sheriffs Association ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds VENTURA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACM LIFTING LIVES ↗
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: Ventura County Community Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Premier America Credit Union · Sherwood Country Club Charitable Foundation · Williams-Corbett Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · California Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sempra 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 Ventura County Credit Union 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.
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.