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SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION

SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$665k
Funders on record
1
Grants received
$1k
Net assets
$0
0/1 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 0%
01What it does

What Sacramento Foundation does

Mission

The primary purpose of the organization is to support the united way california capital region.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. The primary purpose of the organization is to support the united way california capital region.

    $13,315,464 spentof which $13,315,464 as grants
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $13,315,464.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($2.5M) Expenses 100 ($212k) Net assets 100 ($11M)2018 Revenue 28 ($712k) Expenses 103 ($219k) Net assets 106 ($11M)2019 Revenue 37 ($932k) Expenses 273 ($579k) Net assets 106 ($11M)2020 Revenue 24 ($606k) Expenses 247 ($524k) Net assets 105 ($11M)2021 Revenue 17 ($433k) Expenses 235 ($499k) Net assets 128 ($14M)2022 Revenue 83 ($2.1M) Expenses 251 ($532k) Net assets 106 ($11M)2023 Revenue 16 ($410k) Expenses 349 ($741k) Net assets 108 ($12M)2024 Revenue 34 ($847k) Expenses 341 ($724k) Net assets 115 ($12M)2025 Revenue 26 ($665k) Expenses 6335 ($13M) Net assets 0 ($0)
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Revenue (26)Expenses (6335)Net assets (0)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2024 to 2025, from $14M to $0 (−100%).

$13M
$13M
$13M
$13M
$15M
$13M
$14M
$14M
$0
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24'25
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$2.3M
’17
$493k
’18
$353k
’19
$83k
’20
−$66k
’21
$1.6M
’22
−$331k
’23
$123k
’24
−$13M
’25
1.0
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

Dawnte Early

President / CEO

Board chair

Dave Cable

Chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

The chief executive listed changed between the FY2017 and FY2018 filings.

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Listed8121212121412119
Joined·+11+0+4+1+3+3+1+0
No longer listed·70411522
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

From the IRS filings of SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION draws 100% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 1 state in all.

NC

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Organizations like SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

99% of spending goes to programs.

Program 99%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

9
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 1 related entity

  • United Way California Capital Region · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.

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Questions and answers

Who funds SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION?
SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $1,000 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($1,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 1 organization giving $1,000 in grants to SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION?
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $1,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SACRAMENTO FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 1 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing