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SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 171 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,260,542 to it, the largest being THE FOLEY FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,675,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

$30M
Revenue FY2024
171
Funders on record
$39M
Grants received
$228M
Net assets
66/171 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.

Paid out

$138M

Recipients

697

Contributions on record

$39M

Donors on record

174

Payments out run 3.5x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The 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 ($31M) Expenses 100 ($20M) Net assets 100 ($163M)2018 Revenue 77 ($24M) Expenses 89 ($18M) Net assets 96 ($158M)2019 Revenue 72 ($22M) Expenses 100 ($20M) Net assets 110 ($180M)2020 Revenue 100 ($31M) Expenses 130 ($26M) Net assets 124 ($202M)2021 Revenue 100 ($31M) Expenses 99 ($19M) Net assets 137 ($225M)2022 Revenue 122 ($38M) Expenses 111 ($22M) Net assets 122 ($200M)2023 Revenue 50 ($16M) Expenses 119 ($24M) Net assets 133 ($217M)2024 Revenue 95 ($30M) Expenses 136 ($27M) Net assets 139 ($228M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (95)Expenses (136)Net assets (139)

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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 0% · 2021 2% · 2023 0% · 2024 0%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$12M
’17
$6.4M
’18
$2.6M
’19
$5.5M
’20
$12M
’21
$16M
’22
−$7.8M
’23
$2.7M
’24
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 60 funders to 37 funders, grant income rose $2.7M → $4.0M.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
'25*
total
Tipping Point Communityunclassified
$578k
funders
60
43
34
55
42
33
37
27
17

45 of 171 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 60% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 171 funders by total. 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

60% of SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $16M that is directly attributable, 52% of it comes from funders outside California, across 29 states.

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
CT
CA
CO
MO
KY
VA
MD
DE
NM
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
GA
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $24M arriving through sponsors registered in 19 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 171 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 7%Fundraising 2%

Governance

18
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

73%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

Part of a family of 2 related entities

  • Oliver Ranch Foundation · exempt
  • Charitable Remainder Trust (3) · corp_trust

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY 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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Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf

Questions and answers

Who funds SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (California) receives grants from 171 organizations whose IRS filings report $39,260,542 to it, the largest being THE FOLEY FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ($5,675,000). 66 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 60% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly. SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
How many funders does SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION have?
IRS filings report 171 organizations giving $39,260,542 in grants to SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION, 66 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION?
THE FOLEY FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $5,675,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 171funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing