Golden Valley Bank Community
Chico, CA · EIN 20-8398003. Reported 68 grants totalling $4,663,068 to 41 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Golden Valley Bank Community, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 41 distinct organizations, with 58% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
- How much its list changes. 48% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,625. Half of what it reported fell between $7,961 and $34,055; the smallest was $5,101 and the largest $1,525,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| North Valley Community Foundation | Chico, CA | $2,691,328 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Camp Fire Long Term Recovery Group | Paradise, CA | $373,538 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Less Than Or Equal to 5000 | $320,245 | 3 | 3 | 2023 | |
| Enloe Hospital Foundation | Chico, CA | $190,650 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Less Than Or Equal to 5000 | Chico, CA | $147,134 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of the North Valley | Chico, CA | $146,860 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | Chico, CA | $129,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Jesus Provides Our Daily Bread | Chico, CA | $53,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Butte County Fire Safe Council | Paradise, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Paradise Chocolate Fest Inc | Chico, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Valley Contractors Exchange | Chico, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Housing Improvement Program Incorporated | Chico, CA | $47,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rock Creek Contstruction | Chico, CA | $34,055 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Honey Run Covered Bridge Assn Inc | Chico, CA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Butte Creek County Club | Chico, CA | $28,490 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Little League Baseball Inc | Chico, CA | $25,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Little League Baseball Inc | Chico, CA | $25,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Mercy Foundation North | Redding, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chico Bullpen Baseball | Chico, CA | $21,823 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Beta Chapter of Omega Nu Foundation | Chico, CA | $21,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cast Hope | Chico, CA | $18,400 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bidwell Park Junior Golf Associatio | Chico, CA | $17,450 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| North State Screen Printing | Chico, CA | $16,477 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pacific Metal Buildings | Maxwell, CA | $12,039 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Youth for Change | Paradise, CA | $11,750 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ability First Sports | Chico, CA | $11,741 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chico Elks Lodge | Chico, CA | $10,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Chico High School Foundation | Chico, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Innovative Health Care Services | Chico, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Paradise Stronger | Paradise, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Verum Community Solutions | Chico, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Dragon Graphics | Chico, CA | $7,975 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Paradise Senior High School | Paradise, CA | $7,961 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Shasta Womens Refuge | Redding, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Tiny Pine Foundation | Oroville, CA | $7,151 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Axiom Project Inc | Oroville, CA | $6,753 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Chico Central Little League | Chico, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The University Foundation California State University Chico | Chico, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Alyssa Araiza Wings of Angels Organization | Redding, CA | $5,497 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chico United Futbol Club | Chico, CA | $5,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Laser Impressions Inc | Sunnyvale, CA | $5,101 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
13 of 41 (32%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 23 of 41 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 18 | $2,271,299 | $41,743 |
| 2022 | 21 | $560,421 | $10,250 |
| 2023 | 16 | $1,568,720 | $11,375 |
| 2024 | 13 | $262,628 | $8,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,625 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Golden Valley Bank Community's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 12 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 190 Cohasset Road Suite 170, Chico, CA, 95926.
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