· Private foundation
Brezzo Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING | $12,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING | $10,000 |
| JW HOUSE | $8,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $7,000 |
| GOOD KARMA BIKES | $5,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH BRIGHT FOCUS FOUDNATION | $5,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $4,081 |
| CRISTO REY DE LA SALLE EAST BAY HIGH SCHOOL | $4,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $3,500 |
| SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL (BOYSCOUTS) | $3,500 |
| CYSTIC FIBROSIS RESEARCH INC | $3,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $3,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
28 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- RCROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2025 · $93k · revenue +24%
- SHSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY7× · 2019–2025 · $80k · revenue +128%
- JHJW HOUSE7× · 2019–2025 · $47k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- TCThe Colorado Trail Foundationone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +22%
- SHSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKone grant, 2017 · $5k
- CRCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Land trust of santa cruz county (the organization) was incorporated in california as a not-for-profit corporation in 1978. the mission of the organization is to protect, care for, and connect all people to the vibrant natural and working…
To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
Greater yellowstone coalition works with all people to protect the lands, waters, and wildlife of the greater yellowstone ecosystem, now and for future generations.
To partner with individuals and organizations to access, organize, and share data that inspires action that restores our environment.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Amazon conservation unites science, people, and innovation to protect the amazon - the greatest wild forest on earth. as guardians of the most iconic forest on the planet, we bring together the power of the latest science and technology…
The catalina island conservancy protects and stewards 88% of catalina island. more than 42,000 acres of wildlands, coves and coastal habitats. founded to preserve the island's natural resources, the conservancy advances a mission rooted in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trails 2000 Inc and the most unlike its peers is Sainte Claire Historic Preservation Foun. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 48 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST COMMUNITY HOUSING ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds JW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GOOD KARMA BIKES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CYSTIC FIBROSIS RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SAINTE CLAIRE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUN ↗
- Who funds CANCER CAREPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds TRAILS 2000 INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER CREEK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds The Colorado Trail Foundation ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds VITAS COMMUNITY CONNECTION ↗
- Who funds CAMP RAINBOW GOLD INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE LIGHT TOWER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SHARED BLESSINGS INC ↗
- Who funds Pursuit Of Excellence ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Hugh Stuart Center Charitable Trust · Sosj Knights Hospitaller Priory of the Western USA · The Kirkorian Family Foundation · Star One Credit Union · The Intuit Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Texas Instruments Foundation
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Brezzo Family Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.