Annual Report 2025-26

CROWDED TABLE

Where everyone belongs

YEAR IN REVIEW

Es una pregunta que solíamos escuchar todo el tiempo, pero cada año escuchamos menos. Los desafíos comunitarios recientes han demostrado lo importante que es tener una fundación comunitaria respetada, un lugar donde las personas, las empresas y las organizaciones con mentalidad filantrópica pueden reunir recursos para ayudar a encabezar la recuperación, fomentar la preparación y abordar las deficiencias.

North Valley Community Foundation ha otorgado casi $ 45 millones en subvenciones para la recuperación de la comunidad desde Camp Fire, más de $ 3 millones para abordar la pandemia de COVID-19 y más de $ 600,000 para los proyectos Bear / North Complex Fire hasta ahora. Y todavía estamos otorgando subvenciones en todos los frentes.

En cada caso de ayuda en caso de desastre, abrimos fondos para brindar a las personas de buen corazón una forma de dar. Luego, esos recursos combinados se destinan a organizaciones sin fines de lucro y agencias gubernamentales en forma de subvenciones para ayudarlos a abordar sus necesidades.

El gobierno y los seguros solo hacen mucho. Ahí es cuando interviene la filantropía para intentar llenar los huecos.

El gobierno y los seguros solo hacen mucho. Ahí es cuando interviene la filantropía para intentar llenar los huecos.

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:

14 million plus gallons of water delivered in Glenn and Tehama counties since 2021.
413: Households served – 257 in Glenn County, 156 in Tehama County.
264: Tanks and pumps installed to enable water delivery.
221: Water system assessments performed.