Safe Credit Union
Folsom, CA · EIN 94-1179501. Reported 63 grants totalling $993,250 to 39 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. 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.
- How spread out its giving is. 39 distinct organizations, with 10% 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.
- How much its list changes. 29% 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 $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $21,200; the smallest was $5,500 and the largest $31,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aerospace Museum of California Foundation | Mcclellan, CA | $100,750 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Project Attain | Sacramento, CA | $75,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Childrens Miracle Network | Salt Lake Cty, UT | $55,300 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Saint Johns Program for Real Change | Sacramento, CA | $46,900 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Sacramento County Office of Education | Sacramento, CA | $42,400 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| UC Davis Medical School | Sacramento, CA | $42,400 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Folsom Economic Development Corporation | Folsom, CA | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement of Sacramento | Sacramento, CA | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sacramento Area Youth Golf Association | Sacramento, CA | $34,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Keatons Child Cancer Alliance | Roseville, CA | $31,750 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Los Rios Foundation | Sacramento, CA | $31,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Soil Born Farm Urban Agriculture Project | Rncho Cordova, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Volunteers of America Inc | Sacramento, CA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Impact Foundry | Sacramento, CA | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sierra College Foundation | Rocklin, CA | $22,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University Foundation at Sacramento State | Sacramento, CA | $22,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services | Sacramento, CA | $21,800 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Allegiant Giving Corporation | Rocklin, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Health Education Council Serving Populations at Risk | Sacramento, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hope Healthy Outcomes for Personal Enrichment Counseling Center | Roseville, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Made Here Cdc | Sacramento, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| National Credit Union Foundation Inc | Madison, WI | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sacramento Neighborhood Housing Services Inc | Sacramento, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Womens Empowerment | Sacramento, CA | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cyber Proud Inc | Rocklin, CA | $18,650 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Foster Youth Education Fund | Sacramento, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rebuilding Together Sacramento | Sacramento, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| United Way California Capital Region | Sacramento, CA | $11,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Shriners Hospitals for Children | Tampa, FL | $10,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| CASA El Dorado | Placerville, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| City Year Inc | Boston, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Fairytale Town Inc | Sacramento, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Sacramento Veterans Employer Resource Group Inc | Folsom, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Serotonin Surge Charities | Davis, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Stanford Youth Solutions | Sacramento, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The U C Davis Foundation | Davis, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Yolo Crisis Nursey Inc | Davis, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Capital Airshow Group | Mather, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sacramento Downtown Partnership Inc | Sacramento, CA | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
15 of 39 (38%) 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 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.
- Los Rios Foundation
Support of Los Rios Promise Campaign and STEM Center - Aerospace Museum of California
Sponsorship and support of community-related programs and fundraisers - Project Attain
Support of Project Attain - Saint John's Program for Real Change
Q2 Grant Recipient-Saint John's party for change - Sierra College Foundation
Q2 Grant recipient and Taste of Excellence - Children's Miracle Network
Support of Children's Miracle Network via SacTown Run and Kids Wine Auction
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 39 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 | 17 | $281,600 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 24 | $343,400 | $10,150 |
| 2023 | 14 | $224,600 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 8 | $143,650 | $20,000 |
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
90% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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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 $15,000 -- 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 Safe Credit Union'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 8 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: 2295 Iron Point Rd Suite 100, Folsom, CA, 95630.
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