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Castellano Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$311k
Granted FY2023
40
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$25k
Largest

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of Castellano Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year Castellano Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 21 organizations, $312k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

39
17
28
18
30
19
29
20
26
21
34
22
21
23
1
24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172024.

Philanthropy$1.6MArts & Culture$1.2MCivil Rights$297kHuman Services$230kEducation$202kCommunity Improvement$113kYouth Development$110kHealth$102kOther$0
02FY2023 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k22 grants · $87k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $225k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MACLA - Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana$25,000
Somos Mayfair$20,000
School of Arts & Culture MHP$20,000
Chicana Latina Foundation$15,000
San Jose Jazz$15,000
San Jose State Tower Foundation$10,000
Youth Alliance$10,000
Somos Mayfair$10,000
Third Street Community Center$10,000
MACLA - Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana$10,000
Teatro Vision$10,000
Grail Family Services$10,000
People Acting in Community Together$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
Hispanics in Philanthropy$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Latino Community Foundation: $10k → 10%Alimentando el Pueblo: $500 → 9%Latino Community Foundation: $5k → 10%Latino Community Foundation: $5k → 10%Para los Nios: $500 → 14%Latino Community Foundation: $5k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 10%Silicon Valley De-Bug: $5k → 8%SILICON VALLEY DE-BUG: $5k → 8%SEQUOIA YMCA: $500 → 7%Valley Verde: $5k → 8%Sequoia YMCA: $500 → 7%Sequoia YMCA: $400 → 7%Valley Verde: $3k → 8%SERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS & EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN): $20k → 8%SIREN: $10k → 8%Alum Rock Counseling Center: $5k → 8%Alum Rock Counseling Center: $4k → 8%Alum Rock Counseling Center: $4k → 8%SIREN: $2k → 8%COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES (CARAS): $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

WA
MN
NY
MA
CA
TN
DC
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 55 repeat orgs$236k to everyone else

55 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2023, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
65

Total granted

$2.3M
$210k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+55%

Still filing today

73%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • SO
    SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP
    7× · 2017–2023 · $672k · revenue +165%
  • SM
    SOMOS MAYFAIR INC
    6× · 2017–2023 · $155k · revenue +161%
  • SJ
    San Jose Jazz
    6× · 2017–2023 · $128k · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • SV
    SILICON VALLEY CREATES
    one grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue -23%
  • PA
    People Acting in Community Together
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • TV
    Teatro Visin de San Jos
    one grant, 2018 · $10k

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

04Your field

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.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

3
Centro Legal De La Raza

Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.

Crime & Legal
4
Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science

Sacnas is an inclusive organization dedicated to fostering the success of chicanos/hispanics and native americans, from college students to professionals, in attaining advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership in stem.

Science & Tech
5
The Language Academy of Sacramento

The las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…

Education
6
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

7
Latino Media Collaborative

Latino Media Collaborative's mission is to leverage the power of Latino and community news media to impact policy, change narratives, and promote civic engagement, while also supporting advancement of the sector through capacity building,…

Arts & Culture
8
Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits

To advance the role, voice, and capacity of the nonprofit community so it can be a force for positive social change and support the creation of equitable, vibrant, and thriving communities.

Education
9
California Arts Advocates

California Arts Advocates is a comprehensive lobbying organization for the arts, culture and creative industries and workforce.

Arts & Culture
10
Silicon Valley Rising Action

Silicon Valley Rising Action takes on occupational segregation and income inequality with a comprehensive campaign to raise wages, create affordable housing, and build a tech economy that works for everyone.

11
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto

Nuestra Casa exists to uplift Latino families in East Palo Alto and the mid-peninsula through community education, leadership and advocacy

Human Services
12
Active San Gabriel Valley

Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Latinos for Education Inc and the most unlike its peers is San Jose News Bureau. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%4%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr12%28%35–55yr12%11%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr18%64%20–35yr12%11%35–55yr12%1%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/85
the rest of the field
13%
13,544/100,958

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.

04the grantee network

84 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 84 of the 127 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
32
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/84
Grantees still filing
64/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Silicon Valley Community Foundation — $1,480,577 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community FoundationFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $102,000 · PhilanthropyFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATIO…+4 more — $6,500 · PhilanthropySCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $672,350 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTU…SILICON VALLEY CREATES — $51,000 · Arts & CultureSILICON VALLEY CREATESMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED — $50,600 · Arts & CultureMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CUL…TEATRO VISION — $33,000 · Arts & CultureOPERA CULTURA — $31,000 · Arts & Culture+16 more — $43,650 · Arts & CultureMACLA - Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana — $131,150 · OtherMACLA - Movimiento De Arte …San Jose Jazz — $128,000 · OtherSan Jose JazzCHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION — $100,500 · OtherCHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTH…People Acting in Community Together — $52,500 · OtherPeople Acting in Community …Services & Immigrant Rights & Education Network (SIREN) — $46,000 · OtherHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY — $34,000 · OtherLatina Coalition of Silicon Valley — $40,350 · Other+75 more — $437,750 · Other+75 moreSOMOS MAYFAIR INC — $155,300 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $106,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD STREET COMMUNITY CENTER — $50,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $5,000 · Community ImprovementSERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN) — $32,000 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $31,000 · Human ServicesSUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human ServicesALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER INC — $13,000 · Human ServicesSilicon Valley De-Bug — $10,000 · Human ServicesValley Verde — $7,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES — $5,000 · Human Services+4 more — $2,900 · Human ServicesYOUTH ALLIANCE — $82,500 · Crime & LegalSan Jose Grail Family Services — $70,500 · Housing & Shelter
Philanthropy$1,589,077Arts & Culture$881,600Other$970,250Community Improvement$316,300Human Services$126,400Crime & Legal$82,500Housing & Shelter$70,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $1,480,577 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $672,350 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetSOMOS MAYFAIR INC — $155,300 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSan Jose Jazz — $128,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetHISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $106,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $102,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION — $100,500 over 7y, 3.8% of budgetYOUTH ALLIANCE — $82,500 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetSan Jose Grail Family Services — $70,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPeople Acting in Community Together — $52,500 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CREATES — $51,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED — $50,600 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetLatina Coalition of Silicon Valley — $40,350 over 6y, 12% of budgetHISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY — $34,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTEATRO VISION — $33,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN) — $32,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetOPERA CULTURA — $31,000 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $31,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEW HOPE FOR YOUTH — $17,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION — $16,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE EVERGREEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $15,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSAN JOSE MULTICULTURAL ARTISTS GUILD INC — $14,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCENTER FOR TRAINING & CAREERS INC — $13,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPUBLIC ADVOCATES INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSJDANCECO — $11,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetLATINAS CONTRA CANCER — $11,300 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetGRANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA — $11,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetJose Valdes Math Foundation — $10,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSilicon Valley De-Bug — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF HUMAN RELATIONS OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $8,850 over 2y, 13% of budgetValley Verde — $7,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCreate CA — $5,250 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHOP WITH A COP FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $5,200 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONGRESSIONAL HISPANIC CAUCUS INSTITUTE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRANTMAKERS IN THE ARTS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetInterMusic SF — $4,550 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL CENTER FOR FAMILY PHILANTHROPY INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Latino Coalition for Community Leadership — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC AMERICA INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR HISPANIC EDUCATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASHION CULTURAL LEGACY — $2,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMID-PENINSULA EDUCATION CENTER INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGARDNER FAMILY HEALTH NETWORK INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
  • Who funds SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP
  • Who funds SOMOS MAYFAIR INC
  • Who funds San Jose Jazz
  • Who funds HISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY
  • Who funds FOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION
  • Who funds CHICANA FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CA DBA CHICANA LATINA FOUNDATION
  • Who funds YOUTH ALLIANCE
  • Who funds San Jose Grail Family Services
  • Who funds People Acting in Community Together
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY CREATES
  • Who funds MOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED
  • Who funds THIRD STREET COMMUNITY CENTER
  • Who funds Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley
  • Who funds HISPANICS IN PHILANTHROPY
  • Who funds TEATRO VISION
  • Who funds SERVICES IMMIGRANT RIGHTS AND EDUCATION NETWORK (SIREN)
  • Who funds OPERA CULTURA
  • Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds NEW HOPE FOR YOUTH
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA PRIMARY CARE ASSOCIATION
  • Who funds SAN JOSE EVERGREEN COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION
  • Who funds SAN JOSE MULTICULTURAL ARTISTS GUILD INC
  • Who funds CENTER FOR TRAINING & CAREERS INC
  • Who funds ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER INC
  • Who funds PUBLIC ADVOCATES INC
  • Who funds SJDANCECO
  • Who funds LATINAS CONTRA CANCER
  • Who funds GRANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PTA
  • Who funds Jose Valdes Math Foundation

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.

The David and Lucile Packard FoundationCA58.2× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Valley Health Foundation (Vhf) · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The Health Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides 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 Castellano 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 11%
  • City Year Inc11% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc3% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Castellano Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Castellano 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 127 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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