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A Part of the Whole A Family Foundation at a glance

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A Part of the Whole A Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$218k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$150k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

International$282kYouth Development$50kCrime & Legal$30kHuman Services$22kPhilanthropy$10kArts & Culture$6kReligion$5kHousing & Shelter$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $8k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$641k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GRAVITY WATER$150,000
BLACK SURF SANTA CRUZ INC$50,000
SANTA CRUZ LESBIAN AND GAY COMMUNITY CENTER$10,000
KA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CENTERS INC$5,000
LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION$3,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $10k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
2
Pacific Center for Human Growth

Provides culturally responsive therapy, peer to peer support groups, community outreach services, and facilitated workshops in Alameda County with the aim to enhance the mental health and overall well-being of the LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC…

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3
Healing and Reconciliation Institute

The Healing and Reconciliation Institute works toward a more resilient future by bridging Indigenous and non-Indigenous perspectives. We address historical and ongoing harms by facilitating a framework for repair.

Human Services
4
Ke Ola Hou the Lahaina Resiliency Center

Ke ola hou - the lahaina resiliency center was organized to build and operate a community resilience center at kaanapali to support the lahaina community in the aftermath of the devastating fires by providing comprehensive services to aid…

Health
5
Nami Santa Cruz County

Education, support and advocacy for mental health.

Health
6
Sun Street Centers

To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.

Human Services
7
La Raza Community Resource Center

To serve as a bridge between san francisco and spanish speaking immigrant families with direct support and advocacy to ensure latino and indigenous immigrant communities can access resources, realize their power, and thrive.

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8
Recovery Cafe San Jose

To provide a healing community of services and support for people recovering from addiction, homelessness, mental illness and other kinds of trauma.

Human Services
9
Hoomau Ke Ola

Ho`omau ke ola provides comprehensive rehabilitation services including residential and outpatient care, treatment, and counseling to persons recovering from problems related to persons with mental and substance abuse disorders. ho`omau ke…

Health
10
Latino Commission On Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services

The Latino Commission provides a multitude of services throughout the counties of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Tulare. The Organization currently employs twelve programs eight for adults, and four for youth and transitional age youth…

Health
11
Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County

Harm Reduction Coalition of Santa Cruz County operates a state-authorized Syringe Service Program. This program distributes complimentary syringes, sharps containers, wound care items, etc. to low-income and homeless individuals in our…

Health
12
Samoan Solutions

Education

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Black Surf Santa Cruz Inc; the most unlike its peers is Kern River Tubatulabal Paiute Council. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
6/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GRAVITY WATER: $281,500 · InternationalGRAVITY WATERBlack Surf Santa Cruz Inc: $50,000 · Youth DevelopmentBlack Surf Sa…YOGA FOR ALL MOVEMENT: $30,000 · Crime & LegalThe Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center: $10,000 · OtherKA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CENTERS INC: $5,000 · OtherROMERO INSTITUTE: $2,500 · OtherALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $10,000 · Human ServicesRECOVERY CAFE SANTA CRUZ: $2,000 · Human ServicesHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Arts & CultureKERN RIVER TUBATULABAL PAIUTE COUNCIL: $3,000 · Arts & CultureBOUNDLESS FREEDOM PROJECT: $5,000 · Religion
International$281,500Youth Development$50,000Crime & Legal$30,000Other$17,500Human Services$12,000Philanthropy$10,000Arts & Culture$6,000Religion$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGRAVITY WATER: $281,500 over 3y, 29% of budgetBlack Surf Santa Cruz Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetYOGA FOR ALL MOVEMENT: $30,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Santa Cruz Lesbian and Gay Community Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKA HALE A KE OLA HOMELESS RESOURCE CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOUNDLESS FREEDOM PROJECT: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKERN RIVER TUBATULABAL PAIUTE COUNCIL: $3,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetROMERO INSTITUTE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRECOVERY CAFE SANTA CRUZ: $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

ImpactassetsincMorgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
ImpactassetsincMD12.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Impactassetsinc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization A Part of the Whole A Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from A Part of the Whole A Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to A Part of the Whole A Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to A Part of the Whole A Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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