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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…

$269k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$112k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$260kFood & Nutrition$137kHealth$94kHuman Services$64kInternational$60kEducation$52kArts & Culture$47kCommunity Improvement$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $218,013, the rows itemized in this filing. The $269,247 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $51,234 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $71k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $112k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
MAKE A WISH TRI-COUNTIES$5,100
MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY$5,100
WOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES$5,013
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 12%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $15k → 14%CHANNEL ISLANDS YMCA: $11k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES IN: $8k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN & FAMILY SERVICES INC: $7k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $6k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%INTERFACE CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 10%MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $5k → 10%MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $5k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 12% of Ventura County Credit Union’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ventura County Credit Unionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$729k · 15 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
9

Total granted

$729k
$52k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationInternationalPublic BenefitOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY CREDIT UNION INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $219k · revenue +9% · 48% of their budget
  • FS
    FOOD SHARE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $137k · revenue +34%
  • CM
    CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK
    4× · 2019–2023 · $44k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • HC
    HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION FOR VENTURA COUNTY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • NC
    NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $7k · revenue -11%
  • R
    REACH
    one grant, 2023 · $6k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
California Coast Credit Union

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…

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2
Ventura County Community Development Corporation

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.

Community Improvement
3
Ventura County Medical Resource Foundation

To improve, in partnership with others, access to needed health care for the most vulnerable and underserved children and seniors of ventura county.

Health
4
Credit Unions in the State of California Sierra Central Credit Union

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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5
Foundation for California Community Colleges

The foundation's mission is to benefit, support, and enhance the missions of the california community college system.

Education
6
League of California Community Foundations

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
7
Ventura College Foundation

The Ventura College Foundation transforms students lives through education by providing innovative and vital resources and financial support. The Foundation collaborates with Ventura College to enhance human potential, civic engagement,…

Education
8
Community Medical Centers Inc

The organization provides primary medical, behavior health, and dental care to the population of san joaquin, and solano counties without regard to patients' ability to pay.

Health
9
Ventura County Coastal Association of Realtors

Our mission is to be the local advocate for realtors; to enhance the professionalism, integrity, and compentency of members; and to promote private property rights.

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10
California Community Foundation

We invest in, partner with, and amplify the community to build a good life.

Philanthropy
11
California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

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12
The Venture Capital Foundation

Venture forward is a non-profit foundation with a mission to democratize access to the vc industry, empower individuals from all backgrounds and geographies to thrive as investors, and equip future vc leaders with the tools for long-term…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Central Coast and Southern Central Valley; 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.
05the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY CREDIT UNION INC: $218,512 · PhilanthropyTHE FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY CRE…VENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,750 · PhilanthropyVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONPREMIER AMERICA FOUNDATION: $20,000 · PhilanthropyPREMIER AMERICA FOUNDATION+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyFOOD SHARE INC: $136,816 · Food & NutritionFOOD SHARE INCInterface Children Family Services: $35,000 · Human ServicesInterface …Channel Islands Young Men's Christian Association: $25,500 · Human ServicesChannel Is…MIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $10,000 · Human ServicesMIXTECO IN…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 · Human ServicesAmerican N…CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $44,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETW…VENTURA COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $11,103 · OtherVENTURA COUNTY FAMILY J…NATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $6,699 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL COAST AND SOUTHERN CENTRAL VALLEY: $28,625 · OtherMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION …HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION FOR VENTURA COUNTY INC: $10,000 · OtherHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION …MUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY: $41,600 · OtherMUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNT…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY: $12,600 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SA…+3 more: $15,500 · Other+3 moreWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC: $55,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 · InternationalWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: $33,763 · Public BenefitINCLUSIV INC: $22,500 · Public BenefitCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION: $36,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $10,500 · EducationVENTURA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 · Education
Philanthropy$266,262Food & Nutrition$136,816Human Services$75,500Other$170,127International$60,000Public Benefit$56,263Education$51,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE FOUNDATION OF VENTURA COUNTY CREDIT UNION INC: $218,512 over 5y, 48% of budgetFOOD SHARE INC: $136,816 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWORLDWIDE FOUNDATION FOR CREDIT UNIONS INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK: $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF VENTURA COUNTY: $41,600 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY CHANNEL ISLANDS FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetInterface Children Family Services: $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S ECONOMIC VENTURES: $33,763 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL COAST AND SOUTHERN CENTRAL VALLEY: $28,625 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetChannel Islands Young Men's Christian Association: $25,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $22,750 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINCLUSIV INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPREMIER AMERICA FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY: $12,600 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $11,103 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA LUTHERAN UNIVERSITY: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTH CARE FOUNDATION FOR VENTURA COUNTY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMIXTECO INDIGENA COMMUNITY ORGANIZING PROJECT: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL CREDIT UNION FOUNDATION: $6,699 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVentura Co Deputy Sheriffs Association: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVENTURA COUNTY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetACM LIFTING LIVES: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Ventura County Commun…Santa Barbara Foundat…Conrad N Hilton Found…Weingart FoundationPremier America Credi…Sherwood Country Club…Williams-Corbett Foun…The Wood-Claeyssens F…Mufg Union Bank Found…California Community …Kaiser Foundation Hos…Sempra Foundation
Ventura County Community FoundationCA28.2× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Ventura County Credit Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ventura County Credit Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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