YEAR IN REVIEW
There’s always room at our crowded table.
Nearly eight years ago when the Camp Fire hit, our table got much bigger. Nonprofits, spiritual leaders and governmental agencies all came together. The truth was soon evident that the only way we’d recover as a community was to work together.
The case management system was inadequate so we worked with partners to build it. We funded 100 case manager positions and then set aside funding to provide individual assistance to fire survivors.
We used that collaborative approach to find solutions for housing, education, health and wellness, community development and more. We teamed up with and issued grants to more than 550 partners on the ground.
We hoped our Camp Fire response would be the first and last of its kind. But it isn’t that kind of world anymore. We applied what we learned for the Bear Fire, the August Complex, the Dixie Fire, the Thompson Fire and the Park Fire.
Disaster recovery isn’t just about wildfires. Last year we opened a fund when federal assistance to help feed at-risk families disappeared. Our Food Insecurity Relief Fund has distributed nearly $100,000 in grants to help replenish food banks in our five-county area.
We’ve also helped after drought, flooding, snowstorms, pandemic shutdowns and so much more.
We developed an innovative program, NVCF Cares, to address a youth mental health crisis in Butte County.
We work daily with the more than 500 funds that operate under our nonprofit umbrella, each one dreamed up by one or more charitably minded community members.
None of this happens without donations from thousands of people, who give to NVCF and our funds because they recognize the vital role that philanthropy plays in a thriving community.
Thank you for taking a seat at our crowded table.
MESSAGE FROM THE CEO
There is a table I return to often in my mind.
It is long and well-worn, crowded in the best possible way. People are gathered closely together — bringing different stories, different burdens, different beliefs about the world and what is possible within it. Some arrive joyful. Some uncertain. Some carrying loss. Some carrying hope.
There is laughter at one end of the table and difficult conversations at the other. There is disagreement sometimes. There is grace and generosity, too. And somehow, through all of it, there is enough room.
This year’s theme, “Crowded Table,” comes from a belief that has shaped both my life and the work of North Valley Community Foundation: that communities become stronger not when we erase our differences, but when we learn to hold them with care. When we resist the instinct to narrow belonging. When we keep pulling up more chairs.
$10,658,064
MONEY RAISED IN FISCAL YEAR FOR SOCIAL GOOD
$8,487,825
GRANTS, CHARITABLE PROJECTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS MADE IN THE FISCAL YEAR
$39,601,398
NET ASSETS, END OF YEAR
$164,111,536
GRANTS, CHARITABLE PROJECTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS MADE SINCE 2005
$207,590,385
MONEY RAISED SINCE 2005
July 1, 2025-June 30, 2026 (preaudit)
BY THE NUMBERS
HIGHLIGHTS
They’ve helped countless people in Butte County, Central America and elsewhere. Yet they manage to make their altruism sound almost selfish.
Ann and Tim Edwards continue to find new and inventive ways to help others through the Edwards Family Foundation at NVCF.
“We do it because we enjoy it,” said Ann Edwards.
DONOR PROFILE:
Ann and Tim Edwards
NEW-FUND HIGHLIGHT:
Butte Wildfire Resilience Fund
The Butte County Fire Safe Council is a well-established nonprofit that manages tens of millions of dollars in grants each year.
The organization researched how it could utilize NVCF’s services and decided to open a nonprofit investment fund. It’s called the Butte Wildfire Resilience Fund and it allows the Fire Safe Council to invest funds using NVCF’s hired financial expertise.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT:
Drought Relief Program
After nearly five years, a water delivery program that NVCF started during the drought is nearly wrapped up – with impressive results.
The almost-final numbers:
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14 million plus gallons of water delivered in Glenn and Tehama counties since 2021.
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413: Households served – 257 in Glenn County, 156 in Tehama County.
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264: Tanks and pumps installed to enable water delivery.
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221: Water system assessments performed.
PROGRAM HIGHLIGHT:
NVCF Cares
Butte County children were suffering and isolated. Community members raised the alarm. NVCF listened and responded with innovation.
Community members and professionals banded together with NVCF to form the Care Team, which provides free services to youth and families who are struggling with suicide.
After five years, the Care Team successfully provided more than 600 young people with one-on-one mentorship.
