· Public charity
Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund
To distribute funds for critical family needs, housing assistance and food programs in order to assist people in need throughout the greater san francisco bay area.
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
- $50k–250k5 grants · $692k
- $250k+13 grants · $13M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES - SANTA CLARA | $2,189,882 |
| HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - SAN FRANCISCO | $1,992,385 |
| HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - ALAMEDA | $1,850,492 |
| HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - CONTRA COSTA | $1,289,102 |
| SAMARITAN HOUSE - SAN MATEO | $1,259,878 |
| SONOMA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK | $701,932 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY | $701,932 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN | $688,748 |
| UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION - SOLANO | $505,395 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MARIN FOOD BANK - SAN FRANCISCO | $405,376 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $405,376 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK - SANTA CLARA | $378,350 |
| FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO - CONTRA COSTA | $281,060 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK - SAN MATEO | $216,200 |
| REDWOOD EMPIRE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $118,910 |
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 (FY17–25, $43.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 4 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND8× · 2017–2024 · $20M · revenue +18% · 50% of their budget
- HFHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +44% · 82% of their budget
- SCSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +128%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGIONone grant, 2025 · $505k · revenue 0%
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.
Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.
To distribute food to alleviate hunger, provide emergency food services during a natural disaster, and conduct educational awareness programs relating to hunger issues in monterey county.
Alchemist cdc connects sacramento area communities to land, food, and opportunity toward a vision in which all neighborhoods are vibrant, equitable, healthy, and diverse. we are best known for enhancing the quality of life in…
Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.
The resource connection's mission is to engage families, empower communities, and enrich the lives of the residents of amador and calaveras counties.
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
Our mission is to provide food, nutritional education, and advocacy for those in need within san benito county, while pursuing our ultimate vision that no resident will suffer from hunger or malnutrition in san benito county.
Address the homeless crisis in California.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Provide food to qualifying families in Palo Alto
Procurement and distribution of food to agencies serving the needy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Marin and the most unlike its peers is Community Action of Napa Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME ↗
- Who funds SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BENICIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION ↗
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: United Way of the Bay Area · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund 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.