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Project Optimism
See who has funded you, who else those funders support, and which potential new funders your network brings into view.
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Your funders
6 funders have made program grants to you since 2016. The 5 shown below are the most recent; each row shows how many years they funded you and the total amount recorded. Of these, 3 are locally focused, 2 have national reach, and 1 is no longer active.
- Southern California Center for Nonprofit Management2 years$47,750
- National Basketball Association Foundationone-time$50,000
- Enterprise Holdings Foundationone-time$2,500
- Alliance for Education Solutions Incone-time$15,000
- Sierra Health Foundationone-time$500
Showing 5 of 6. See all 9 funders
3 others are DAFs (donor-advised funds), matching-gift programs or similar pass-throughs — intermediaries carrying someone else's choice, so no step below uses them.
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Your funding peers
Funding peers are organizations that share one or more of your funders. Start with organizations in a related field that share at least three of them. Explore all 11,260 funding connections →
23 All fields funding peers share at least three of your funders.
- 916 InkCA4 shared funders
- Greater Sacramento Urban LeagueCA4 shared funders
- Improve Your TomorrowCA4 shared funders
- Juma VenturesCA4 shared funders
- Black Youth Leadership ProjectCA3 shared funders
- Council on American-Islamic Relations CaliforniaCA3 shared funders
- Food Literacy CenterCA3 shared funders
- Girls on the Run of Greater SacramentoCA3 shared funders
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Potential new funders
Potential new funders have not funded you since 2016, but they fund organizations in your funding network. They are ranked by the strength of their connections through your funders and funding peers.
In historical data, funders connected this way later funded an organization like yours about twenty times as often as a random eligible funder, and still only about one in fifty times. This is a historical pattern, not a prediction.
Showing the first 3 strongly connected funders.
- Liberty Hill Foundationby invitation209 funding peersConnected through 6 of your 6 fundersLatest peer funding 2023
- Weingart Foundationaccepts unsolicited342 funding peersConnected through 5 of your 6 fundersLatest peer funding 2024