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Sacramento Area Congregations

Sacramento, CA · EIN 94-3146791. Reported 31 grants totalling $591,700 to 26 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

26organizations funded
$10,000median reported grant
$591,700granted, 2020-2024
50%of grantees funded again the next year
21%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 26 distinct organizations, with 21% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
  3. How much its list changes. 50% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $7,000 and $12,000; the smallest was $7,000 and the largest $73,800. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
15 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
10 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
3 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
3 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Inland Congregation United for Change Sponsoring Committee IncSn Bernrdno, CA$123,050222024
Orange County Congregation Community OrganizationAnaheim, CA$123,050222024
True North Organizing NetworkEureka, CA$122,600222024
Christian Fellowship MinistrySacramento, CA$14,000212020
Future Community ChurchElk Grove, CA$14,000212020
Christ Temple Apostolic ChurchSacramento, CA$12,000112021
Morning Star - Christ Holy Sanctified ChurchSacramento, CA$12,000112021
Parkside Community Church UccSacramento, CA$12,000112021
Pastor of Cathedral of the Blessed Sacrament Parish - SacramentoSacramento, CA$12,000112021
Pastor of St Peter-All Hallows Parish Sacramento a Corporation SoSacramento, CA$12,000112021
St Stephen African Methodist Episcopal Zion ChurchSacramento, CA$12,000112021
The Village Advocates of SacramentoSacramento, CA$12,000112021
Transformation ChurchSacramento, CA$12,000112021
Council on American-Islamic Relations CaliforniaAnaheim, CA$10,000112021
Mutual Housing CorporationSacramento, CA$10,000112021
Ministerio KairosElk Grove, CA$9,000112021
1ST Baptist Chirch of DphSacramento, CA$7,000112020
Capitol City SdaSacramento, CA$7,000112020
Life MattersSacramento, CA$7,000112020
Masjid As-Sabur SacramentoSacramento, CA$7,000112020
Murph-Emmanuel AME ChurchNorth Highlands, CA$7,000112020
Mutual Housing CaliforniaSacramento, CA$7,000112020
Pastor of Our Lady of Guadalupe Parish - Sacramento a Corp SoleSacramento, CA$7,000112020
Pastor of St Philomene Parish - Sacramento a Corporation SoleSacramento, CA$7,000112020
Unity of SacramentoSacramento, CA$7,000112020
Vida Family ChurchRoseville, CA$7,000112020

3 of 26 (12%) 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.

It also reported 3 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 10 of 26 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.

Religion
5 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org
Arts & Culture
1 org
Education
1 org
Housing & Shelter
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202014$98,000$7,000
202111$125,000$12,000
20233$221,400$73,800
20243$147,300$49,250

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

Sacramento, CA
$176K
Anaheim, CA
$133K
Sn Bernrdno, CA
$123K
Eureka, CA
$123K
Elk Grove, CA
$23K
North Highlands, CA
$7K
Roseville, CA
$7K

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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.

Tides Foundation3 shared recipientsCalifornians for Justice Education Fund3 shared recipientsWeingart Foundation3 shared recipientsNeo Philanthropy Inc3 shared recipientsPublic Advocates Inc3 shared recipientsNetwork for Good3 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $10,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. 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 Sacramento Area Congregations's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 5930 S Land Park Dr Unit 221245, Sacramento, CA, 95822.

EIN 94-3146791 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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