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Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma

Healdsburg, CA · EIN 68-0474109. Reported 60 grants totalling $2,419,386 to 33 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

33organizations funded
$20,050median reported grant
$2,419,386granted, 2021-2024
39%of grantees funded again the next year
11%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. For Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma, by its IRS classification it raises and distributes funds for health care (NTEE E122).
  2. How spread out its giving is. 33 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 39% 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 $20,050. Half of what it reported fell between $14,000 and $50,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $202,800. 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
3 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
29 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
12 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
10 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
6 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
University of San FranciscoSan Francisco, CA$262,857222024
Nuestra ComunidadWindsor, CA$249,150442024
On the Margins IncPetaluma, CA$238,795222024
On the MarginsSan Francisco, CA$202,800112022
Scopa Has a Dream IncHealdsburg, CA$160,076532023
Humanidad Therapy & Education ServicesSanta Rosa, CA$141,000222024
Alliance Medical CenterHealdsburg, CA$124,750322023
Coppertower Family Medical Center IncCloverdale, CA$117,900432024
Support Our Students (sos)Santa Rosa, CA$92,000222024
La Familia SanaCloverdale, CA$81,274332024
Goring & Straja Architects PcBerkeley, CA$75,000112024
Santa Rosa Junior College FoundationSanta Rosa, CA$75,000442024
Northern California Center for Well-BeingSanta Rosa, CA$73,750322022
Kaiser Ncr ChOkaland, CA$64,000112024
Integrative Medical Clinic FoundationSanta Rosa, CA$50,000112022
Petaluma Healthcare DistrictPetaluma, CA$42,250222022
La Luz CenterSonoma, CA$42,000222022
Side By SideSan Anselmo, CA$42,000112022
Latino Service ProvidersSanta Rosa, CA$40,000212021
Botanical BusRohnert Park, CA$37,750222023
On the MoveNapa, CA$25,000112021
River to Coast Childrens ServicesGuerneville, CA$25,000112022
The Scan FoundationLong Beach, CA$24,925112024
Cloverdale Senior Multi Purpose CenterCloverdale, CA$20,100112024
Council on Aging Services for SeniorsSanta Rosa, CA$18,900112024
Food for ThoughtForestville, CA$15,000112021
Latino Health ForumSanta Rosa, CA$15,000112021
Bilingual Broadcasting Foundation IncSanta Rosa, CA$12,750112021
Centro Laboral De GratonGraton, CA$12,750112021
Organizacion En California De Lideres Campesinas IncOxnard, CA$12,750112021
Raizes CollectiveSanta Rosa, CA$12,750112021
California Healthcare FoundationOakland, CA$7,109112024
Pogo ParkRichmond, CA$5,000112024

14 of 33 (42%) 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 8 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 the money was for

Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 20 of 33 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.

Human Services
5 orgs
Education
4 orgs
Health Care
3 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Public Safety & Disaster Relief
1 org
Civil Rights
1 org
Mental Health
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202124$385,250$12,750
202212$710,300$32,750
20239$649,519$67,750
202415$674,317$24,925

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

Santa Rosa, CA
$531K
San Francisco, CA
$466K
Healdsburg, CA
$285K
Petaluma, CA
$281K
Windsor, CA
$249K
Cloverdale, CA
$219K
Berkeley, CA
$75K
Okaland, CA
$64K

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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.

Sonoma County Community Foundation22 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc15 shared recipientsKaiser Foundation Hospitals13 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund12 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc12 shared recipientsMarin Community Foundation11 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 $20,050 -- 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 Healthcare Foundation Northern Sonoma'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 15 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: Po Box 1025, Healdsburg, CA, 95448.

EIN 68-0474109 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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