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William J Codiga Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$176k
Granted FY2024still arriving
50
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$34k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20182024.

Human Services$190kEnvironment$146kFood & Nutrition$142kYouth Development$109kCommunity Improvement$105kHealth$85kPhilanthropy$44kArts & Culture$37kOther$0
02FY2024 · 50 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k45 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $109k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KUUMBWA$34,162
AGRICULTURAL HISTORY PROJECT (AHP)$30,000
FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST$25,000
GREY BEARS$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY$10,000
HOSPICE CARING PROJECT OF SC COUNTY$5,000
SACRAMENTO DISTRICT DENTAL FOUNDATION$5,000
MONTEREY BAY SALMON AND TROUT PROJECT$5,000
FOOD WHAT INC$5,000
SALVATION ARMY$5,000
PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES$4,000
PAJARO RESCUE MISSION$2,500
DIGITAL NEST$2,500
CALIFONRIA TROUT$2,500
PAJARO VALLEY HISTORICAL ASSOC (PVHA)$2,050
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 13%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $1k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $4k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $4k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $3k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $3k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $2k → 13%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $1k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $50k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $25k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $25k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $25k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $15k → 13%FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST: $5k → 13%GREY BEARS: $10k → 13%CALIFORNIA GREY BEARS: $5k → 13%GREY BEARS: $5k → 13%CALIFORNIA GREY BEARS: $3k → 13%CALIFORNIA GREY BEARS: $1k → 13%CALIFORNIA GREY BEARS: $1k → 13%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$904k · 52 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +52% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
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Total granted

$904k
$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+24%

Still filing today

58%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentAnimalsHealthOther

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

  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST
    6× · 2019–2024 · $145k · revenue +176%
  • DN
    DIGITAL NEST INC
    5× · 2019–2024 · $58k · revenue +103%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $45k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • PV
    PAJARO VALLEY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • SV
    Scotts Valley High School Falcon Club
    one grant, 2018 · $8k · revenue -22%
  • SV
    SCOTTS VALLEY MIDDLE SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · $500

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

04Your 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.

1
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
2
Sempervirens Fund

To ensure coast redwood forests in the santa cruz mountains thrive for generations to come. since 1900, sempervirens has protected more than 36,000 acres. learn more about our mission, vision, and strategic plan through 2030 at:…

Environment
3
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
4
Santa Clara River Conservancy

The Santa Clara River Conservancy represents the diverse interests of the Santa Clara River, from the flood plain to the highest tributaries, and seeks to secure, sustain, and manage significant lands and waters that provide habitat for…

Environment
5
Sonoma Botanical Garden
6
Environmental Defense Center

The organization protects and enhances the local environment through education, advocacy and legal action.

Crime & Legal
7
Nature Collective

Nature collective's mission is to drive a passion for nature for all. we think inclusively and diversely when serving those devoid of nature those who remember nature and want to connect back to it and those who have an affinity with…

Environment
8
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
9
Santa Cruz Sailing Foundation
Philanthropy
10
California Wildlife Foundation

The foundation works with diverse groups representing many interests to acquire and restore critical wildlife habitat and protecting species

Animals
11
Fishery Foundation of California

To improve fisheries resources in the state of california.

Animals
12
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment

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

Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr18%9%10–20yr18%16%20–35yr14%36%35–55yr14%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr14%38%35–55yr14%25%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/48
the rest of the field
12%
3,646/29,775

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.

04the grantee network

43 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 43 of the 77 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
35/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AGRICULTURAL HISTORY PROJECT (AHP) — $116,620 · OtherAGRICULTURAL HISTORY PROJECT (AHP)KUUMBWA — $99,943 · OtherKUUMBWASACRAMENTO DISTRICT DENTAL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · OtherSACRAMENTO DISTRICT DENTAL FOUNDATIONTHE SALVATION ARMY — $20,250 · OtherHOSPICE CARING PROJECT OF SC COUNTY — $18,150 · Other+47 more — $137,951 · Other+47 moreFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST — $145,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY …GREY BEARS — $24,500 · Human ServicesGREY BEARSPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES — $16,500 · Human ServicesPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER …+1 more — $6,000 · Human ServicesCOASTAL CONSERVATION & RESEARCH — $116,000 · EnvironmentCOASTAL CONSER…CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION — $6,050 · Environment+3 more — $111 · EnvironmentDIGITAL NEST INC — $57,500 · Youth DevelopmentDIGITAL NEST …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…FoodWhat Incorporated — $15,500 · Youth DevelopmentFoodWhat Inco…COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $35,000 · PhilanthropyUnited Way of Santa Cruz County — $6,000 · PhilanthropySANTA CRUZ COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION — $3,000 · PhilanthropyMONTEREY BAY SALMON & TROUT PROJECT — $22,500 · AnimalsCALIFORNIA TROUT INC — $8,350 · Animals+1 more — $35 · AnimalsPajaro Valley Historical Association — $10,635 · Arts & CultureWATSONVILLE COMMUNITY BAND — $6,750 · Arts & CultureSanta Cruz Childrens Museum of Discovery — $6,000 · Arts & CultureSANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $3,065 · Arts & CultureSANTA CRUZ ART LEAGUE INC — $1,750 · Arts & Culture+2 more — $1,470 · Arts & Culture
Other$422,914Human Services$192,000Environment$122,161Youth Development$118,000Philanthropy$44,000Animals$30,885Arts & Culture$29,670

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST — $145,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCOASTAL CONSERVATION & RESEARCH — $116,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC — $57,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $45,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSACRAMENTO DISTRICT DENTAL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetGREY BEARS — $24,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONTEREY BAY SALMON & TROUT PROJECT — $22,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES — $16,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetFoodWhat Incorporated — $15,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPajaro Valley Historical Association — $10,635 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetCabrillo College Foundation — $9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA TROUT INC — $8,350 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetScotts Valley High School Falcon Club — $7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION — $6,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Cruz Childrens Museum of Discovery — $6,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetUnited Way of Santa Cruz County — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA CRUZ COUNTY FARM BUREAU — $5,160 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetDOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAGRI-CULTURE INC — $4,200 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $4,050 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSANTA CRUZ MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY — $3,065 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA CRUZ COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS FOUNDATION — $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSANTA CRUZ ART LEAGUE INC — $1,750 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY — $1,287 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetST FRANCIS CATHOLIC KITCHEN — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKQED INC — $900 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $570 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA CRUZ HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOC — $550 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSANTA CRUZ COUNTY HORSEMENS ASSOCIATION — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $165 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARKS CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — $35 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $16 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 FAMILY SERVICE AGENCY OF THE CENTRAL COAST
  • Who funds COASTAL CONSERVATION & RESEARCH
  • Who funds DIGITAL NEST INC
  • Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY
  • Who funds SACRAMENTO DISTRICT DENTAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds GREY BEARS
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY SALMON & TROUT PROJECT
  • Who funds PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES
  • Who funds FoodWhat Incorporated
  • Who funds Pajaro Valley Historical Association
  • Who funds Cabrillo College Foundation
  • Who funds Pacific Legal Foundation
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA TROUT INC
  • Who funds Scotts Valley High School Falcon Club
  • Who funds WATSONVILLE COMMUNITY BAND
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA WATERFOWL ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds Santa Cruz Childrens Museum of Discovery
  • Who funds United Way of Santa Cruz County
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc
  • Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
  • Who funds SANTA CRUZ COUNTY FARM BUREAU
  • Who funds DOMINICAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
  • Who funds AGRI-CULTURE INC
  • Who funds SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

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 Cruz CountyCA33.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Dignity Health · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The J Miles and Rosanne Reiter Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Richard and Mary Solari Charitable Trust · Pajaro Valley Community Health Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · The Finkelman Family Charitable Foundation · Rotary Club of SC Sunrise 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 William J Codiga Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
    11report 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, FY2025

    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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 77 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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