How much did VENTURES grant in FY2024?

VENTURES reported 1 grants totaling $1,270,429 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

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· Public charity

VENTURES

Creating compassionate and equitable local economies that contribute to the well-being of our communities.Ventures partners with rural, working-class families in Californias Central Coast to ensure a shared and equitable economic future for all.

$1.3M

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$1.1M

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of VENTURES’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.

02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,096,361

Median grant

States reached

$5.9M

Total assets

Largest grants

EL PAJARO CDC$1,096,361

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–20, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 8%. 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.

03Your 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.

Central Coast Alliance United for a

To build grassroots power to realize social, economic and environmental justice for the people of the Central Coast Region through policy research, leadership development, organizing and advocacy.

Community Improvement

Mid-City Community Advocacy Network

Mid-city community advocacy network works to build a safe, productive, and healthy community for the residents of city heights and greater san diego through collaboration, advocacy, and organizing.

Community Improvement

Just Communities Central Coast

Just Communities Central Coast advances justice by building leadership, fostering change, and dismantling all forms of prejudice, discrimination and oppression.

Civil Rights

Community Initiatives for Collective Impact

Our mission is to join diverse people, ideas, and resources to address the most pressing social and environmental justice priorities. We believe that the community concerns of Californias San Joaquin Valley (SJV) can only be addressed if…

Community Improvement

Community Foundation Santa Cruz

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future

Philanthropy

Community Health Center of

To provide our diverse community with access to high quality, affordable primary health care

Health

Impact Community Action

Reducing the barriers and burdens that families in poverty experience by increasing access to essential needs.

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Community Action Service & Advocacy

to mobilize communities to create safe and healthy neighborhoods through research, education, advocacy, and service.

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Community Action Partnership of

To provide services to the low income population in san bernardino county which are designed to have a measurable impact on the causes of poverty

Human Services

County Supervisors Association of Calif

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

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Axis Community Health Inc

The mission of Axis Community Health is to provide quality, affordable, accessible, and compassionate health care services that promote the well being of all members of the community.

Health

Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Santa Cruz Community Health Centers and the most unlike its peers is Community Bridges. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

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)

10/10

Grantees still filing

10/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$5,914,786Food & Nutrition$103,970Health$85,025Philanthropy$78,710Human Services$50,000Employment$43,825

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.

Community Foundation Santa CruzCA24.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Sunlight Giving · East Bay Community Foundation · Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Dignity Health · United Way of Santa Cruz County · Latino Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc

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 VENTURES 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.

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0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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.

04Through 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: PVPSA.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 6 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 770269322 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 PVPSA, 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

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% 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.

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How do I get to Ventures?

Find your warmest path to Ventures 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.

VENTURES

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ventures?

More from the funding graph

VENTURES

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2024.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Ventures?

More from the funding graph