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Western Health Advantage

See schedule oto improve the health and welfare of the communities served by the corporation by: (I) offering health benefit coverage to the general public and employer groups through multiple accessible channels; (ii) supporting and furthering the charitable, educational and/or social welfare purposes of the corporation's members (the…

$1.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
19
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$129k
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$2.3MCommunity Improvement$1.7MHealth$1.6MEducation$1.0MPhilanthropy$722kRecreation & Sports$416kFood & Nutrition$376kEmployment$156kOther$0
02FY2025 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $866,277, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,033,808 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $167,531 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $294k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $566k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$106M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROCKER ART MUSEUM$129,000
THE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$125,000
GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL$107,500
SACRAMENTO REGION COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$104,944
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$100,000
MERCY FOUNDATION$40,000
SACRAMENTO BALLET ASSOCIATION$35,000
CRISTO REY HIGH SCHOOL SACRAMENTO$32,000
WEAVE$29,000
VALLEY VISION INC$25,000
DOWNTOWN SACRAMENTO PARTNERSHIP - ICE RINK$25,000
UC DAVIS FOUNDATION$25,000
SACRAMENTO LGBT COMMUNITY CENTER$20,000
SONOMA MEDIA INVESTMENTS LLC$15,750
KVIE INC$14,583
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 (FY17–20, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE: $10k → 12%Greater Sacramento Urban League: $6k → 12%ST HOPE ACADEMY: $10k → 12%St Hope Academy: $5k → 12%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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.7M · 31 repeat orgs$220k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +57% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.

31 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
18

Total granted

$7.7M
$220k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+17%

Still filing today

87%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEducationHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE
    7× · 2017–2025 · $1.0M · revenue +54%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $975k · revenue +33%
  • GS
    GREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL
    9× · 2017–2025 · $914k · revenue +286%

Funded once

  • CR
    Cristo Rey High School Sacramento
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +17%
  • WM
    WOODLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION DBA WOODLAND HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k · revenue -4%
  • NL
    Nehemiah Leaders Programsgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +99%
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 State University Alumni Association

Connect, engage and celebrate alumni, students and friends of sacramento state while building lifelong relationships that support the future of our university.

Education
2
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
3
Sutter Bay Hospitals

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,…

Health
4
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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5
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
6
Sacramento Asian Pacific Chamber of Commerce

To educate our members and the community by developing programs designed to strengthen and expand the potential of asian pacific islander (api) businesses and the api community. sacc's core competency and our competitive advantage is our…

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7
Capital Black Chamber of Commerce

The mission of the Sacramento Black chamber of commerce is to assure member businesses will benefit through services that sustain and increase their revenue. Additionally, the region will benefit through the growth of African American…

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8
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

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,…

Health
9
Sacramento Pioneer Association
Arts & Culture
10
Sutter Valley Medical Foundation

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,…

Health
11
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

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,…

Health
12
Better Business Bureau of Sacramento

BBBs mission is to be the leader in advancing marketplace trust. BBB accomplishes this mission by: Creating a community of trustworthy businesses. Setting standards for marketplace trust. Encouraging and supporting best practices.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soil Born Farm Urban Agriculture Project; the most unlike its peers is Triumph Cancer Foundation. 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

46 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. 46 of the 51 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/46
Grantees still filing
34/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $1,022,000 · Arts & CultureCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIA…SACRAMENTO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $424,350 · Arts & CultureSACRAMENTO BALLET ASSOCIAT…THEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE: $358,333 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC D…AMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM MOUNTAIN VALLEY CHAPTER: $120,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM …KVIE INC: $94,583 · Arts & CultureAmerican Heart Association Inc: $975,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Associ…MERCY FOUNDATION: $400,000 · HealthMERCY FOUNDATIONNORTHBAY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $95,000 · HealthNORTHBAY HEALTHCARE F…DIGNITY HEALTH: $87,500 · HealthBREATHE CALIFORNIA SACRAMENTO REGION: $68,130 · Health+5 more: $66,000 · HealthTHE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE: $1,020,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY FO…THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $216,666 · EducationTHE UC DAVIS FOUN…MERISTEM INC: $55,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA ASIAN PACIFIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS: $287,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIF…SACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $205,993 · OtherSACRAMENTO FOOD BAN…SACRAMENTO DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC: $187,275 · OtherSACRAMENTO DOWNTOWN…SACRAMENTO METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $181,350 · OtherSACRAMENTO METROPOL…WEAVE INC: $166,230 · OtherWEAVE INCACADEMY OF FRIENDS: $82,688 · OtherACADEMY OF FRIENDSSacramento LGBT Community Center: $60,000 · OtherYOLO FOOD BANK: $100,000 · OtherYOLO FOOD BANKSOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT: $55,000 · Other+15 more: $205,825 · Other+15 moreGREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $914,000 · Community ImprovementGREATER SACRAME…VALLEY VISION: $180,000 · Community ImprovementVALLEY VISIONGIFTS TO SHARE INC: $57,500 · Community Improvement+2 more: $26,745 · Community ImprovementSacramento Region Community Foundation: $722,499 · PhilanthropySacrament…+1 more: $18,000 · PhilanthropyCRHS Sacramento Work Study Inc: $222,500 · Youth Development
Arts & Culture$2,019,266Health$1,691,630Education$1,341,666Other$1,531,861Community Improvement$1,178,245Philanthropy$740,499Youth Development$222,500

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 budgetCROCKER ART MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $1,022,000 over 9y, 1.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION AT SACRAMENTO STATE: $1,020,000 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $975,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER SACRAMENTO AREA ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $914,000 over 9y, 4.0% of budgetSacramento Region Community Foundation: $722,499 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSACRAMENTO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $424,350 over 9y, 4.8% of budgetMERCY FOUNDATION: $400,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetTHEATRE FOR CHILDREN INC DBA B STREET THEATRE: $358,333 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetCRHS Sacramento Work Study Inc: $222,500 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION: $216,666 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES: $205,993 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO DOWNTOWN PARTNERSHIP INC: $187,275 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSACRAMENTO METROPOLITAN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $181,350 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetVALLEY VISION: $180,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetWEAVE INC: $166,230 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetAMERICAN LEADERSHIP FORUM MOUNTAIN VALLEY CHAPTER: $120,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetYOLO FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHBAY HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $95,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetKVIE INC: $94,583 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH: $87,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetACADEMY OF FRIENDS: $82,688 over 4y, 15% of budgetBREATHE CALIFORNIA SACRAMENTO REGION: $68,130 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetSacramento LGBT Community Center: $60,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGIFTS TO SHARE INC: $57,500 over 3y, 9.2% of budgetMERISTEM INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOIL BORN FARM URBAN AGRICULTURE PROJECT: $55,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASIAN PACIFIC CHAMBER OF COMMERCE FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetCristo Rey High School Sacramento: $40,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSan Juan Education Foundation: $21,290 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetWOODLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION DBA WOODLAND HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNehemiah Leaders Programs: $18,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetGREATER SACRAMENTO URBAN LEAGUE: $16,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST HOPE ACADEMY: $15,245 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGOLF CHARITIES FOUNDATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetElica Health Centers: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD FOR FAMILIES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTRIUMPH CANCER FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Land-Based Learning: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetDel Paso Boulevard Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetIMPACT FOUNDRY: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO THEATRE COMPANY: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCouncil on Aging Services for Seniors: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER CITY FOOD BANK: $5,455 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Sacramento Region Com…Teichert FoundationSierra Health Foundat…Sutter Valley Hospita…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The California Endowm…Taylor-Meyer Family F…Safe Credit UnionPfund Family Foundati…Kelly FoundationSacramento Food Bank …Dignity Health
Sacramento Region Community FoundationCA44.7× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sacramento Region Community Foundation · Teichert Foundation · Sierra Health Foundation · Sutter Valley Hospitals · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Endowment · Taylor-Meyer Family Foundation · Safe Credit Union · Pfund Family Foundation · Kelly Foundation · Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services · Dignity Health

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 Western Health Advantage funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Western Health Advantage. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 51 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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