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Bay Area Spirit Enthusiasts at a glance

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Bay Area Spirit Enthusiasts

The mission is to inspire and promote our youth and young adults to make a difference in our communities and natural organizations through financial and volunteering commitments.

$370k
Granted FY2019
19
Grants FY2019
7
States reached
$56k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through 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, FY2018 to 2019.

Education$331kRecreation & Sports$79kArts & Culture$12kReligion$6k
02FY2019 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 19 grants below total $234,381, the rows itemized in this filing. The $370,231 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $135,850 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k11 grants · $80k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $99k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $56k
$8,252
Median grant
7
States reached
$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dept of Ed - Fed Loan Servicing$55,510
NOR CAL ELITE$26,580
DEPT OF ED$17,071
AZUSA$13,300
CSU FULLERTON$11,087
NELNET$10,762
Great Lakes-US Dept of Ed$10,502
WELLS FARGO ED$10,011
BEES BASEBALL$9,933
LOYOLA MARYMOUNT$8,252
George Mason University$8,000
DEPT OF ED$7,737
SACRAMENTO STATE$7,656
SALLIE MAE$7,511
SAN JOSE STATE$6,623
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 45% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Arizona State University: $6k → 11%Carleton College Heartland ECSI: $7k → 11%Bee's Baseball: $14k → 8%CSU FULLERTON: $11k → 10%Maritime Academy: $12k → 10%SACRAMENTO STATE: $8k → 12%UC Regents: $19k → 14%CSU - Pueblo: $5k → 15%George Mason University: $8k → 6%BEES BASEBALL: $10k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CA: $8k → 14%George Mason University: $6k → 6%LEIGH HS: $5k → 8%UNIVERSITY OF CA: $6k → 14%DeAnza College: $8k → 8%AZUSA: $13k → 14%Cantiiale Youth Singers: $6k → 8%LOYOLA MARYMOUNT: $8k → 14%VANGAUARD MUSIC: $6k → 8%ST JOSEPHS: $6k → 8%NorCal Elite: $28k → 8%NOR CAL ELITE: $27k → 8%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.

Which US states its grants reach

PA
CA
CO
NE
MO
VA
AZ
NC
DC
GA
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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$295k · 5 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2019, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

$295k
$44k

Still filing today

0%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • AD
    AIDVANTAGEUS DEPT EDUCATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · $169k
  • NE
    NorCal Elite
    2× · 2018–2019 · $55k
  • RU
    REGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA
    2× · 2018–2019 · $32k

Funded once

  • CM
    CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $12k · revenue +253%
  • FC
    FOOTHILL-DEANZA CCD
    one grant, 2018 · $8k
  • CC
    Carleton College Heartland ECSI
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 22 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
3/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AIDVANTAGEUS DEPT EDUCATION: $169,227 · OtherAIDVANTAGEUS DEPT EDUCATIONNorCal Elite: $55,009 · OtherNorCal EliteREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIA: $32,253 · OtherREGENTS UNIV OF CALIFORNIABee's Baseball: $24,314 · OtherBee's BaseballGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY: $13,871 · Other+10 more: $71,204 · Other+10 moreAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $13,300 · EducationAZUSA PACIF…CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $12,250 · EducationCALIFORNIA …LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $8,252 · EducationLOYOLA MARY…VANGUARD MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS: $6,300 · EducationVANGUARD MU…LEIGH HIGH HOME AND SCHOOL CLUB: $5,192 · EducationLEIGH HIGH …CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $11,087 · PhilanthropyCantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley: $5,835 · Arts & Culture
Other$365,878Education$45,294Philanthropy$11,087Arts & Culture$5,835

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY: $13,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $12,250 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION: $11,087 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY: $8,252 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVANGUARD MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS: $6,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley: $5,835 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLEIGH HIGH HOME AND SCHOOL CLUB: $5,192 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds AZUSA PACIFIC UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA MARITIME ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAL STATE FULLERTON PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOYOLA MARYMOUNT UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds VANGUARD MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley ↗
  • Who funds LEIGH HIGH HOME AND SCHOOL CLUB ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…United Way WorldwideAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA12.3× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide · 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 Bay Area Spirit Enthusiasts funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bay Area Spirit Enthusiasts. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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 Bay Area Spirit Enthusiasts?

    Find your warmest path to Bay Area Spirit Enthusiasts 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 22 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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