How much did CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

children youthyouth seniorsseniors stabilitystability well-beingbeniciaeconomically

2021

beniciaeconomicallychildren youthyouth seniorsseniors stabilitystability well-being

2022

children youthyouth seniorsseniors stabilitystability well-beingbeniciaeconomically

2023

children youthyouth seniorsseniors stabilitystability well-beingbeniciaeconomically

2024

children youthyouth seniorsseniors stabilitystability well-beingbeniciaeconomically

2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

$50k–250k5 grants · $692k
$250k+13 grants · $13M

$505,395

Median grant

States reached

$8.0M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY$701,932
SONOMA COMMUNITY ACTION NETWORK$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
FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO - SOLANO$118,910

02The need

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $40.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$81M · 15 repeat orgs$505k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +73% since the first grant, against +6% 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$81M

$505k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+73%

+6%

Still filing today

87%

100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $505k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther

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

HF
HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - SF
8× · 2018–2025 · $17M · revenue +43% · 49% of their budget
SC
SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES - SANTA CLARA
8× · 2018–2025 · $12M · revenue +73%
SAMARITAN HOUSE - SAN MATEO
8× · 2018–2025 · $7.3M · revenue +172%

Funded once

UW
UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION - SOLANO
one grant, 2025 · $505k · revenue +6%

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.

Central California Food Bank

Distribute food to the hungry in fresno, madera, tulare, kern and kings county.

Food & Nutrition

Community Food Bank of San Benito County

The organization distributes surplus, purchased, and donated food to households facing poverty.

Education

California Association of Food Banks

To eliminate hunger in california.

Food & Nutrition

Alameda Emergency Food

Founded in 1977, The Alameda Food Bank is a non-profit organization that helps Alameda residents in need by providing nourishing food in compassionate and respectful manner with the support of dedicated volunteers and local partners.

Food & Nutrition

Extrafood

To help end hunger and food waste in californias bay area.

Food & Nutrition

Food Bank for Monterey County

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.

Unclassified

Second Harvest Food Bank

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition

Los Angeles Regional Food Bank

The organization's mission is to mobilize resources to fight hunger in our community. to fulfill its mission, the food bank:* sources and acquires nutritious food and other products and distribute them to people experiencing nutrition…

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San Francisco Community Agencies

To ensure that those serving san francisco's vulnerable populations are prepared for a disaster.

Human Services

Port Angeles Food Bank

Nourishing our community. the port angeles food bank is the main food bank in clallam county, providing food to 13 other area pantries and meal programs as well as providing food to over 5,000 individuals per month.

Food & Nutrition

Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of Santa Barbara County through good nutrition by providing nourishment, acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies (10 million pounds per year) and giving education to solve…

Food & Nutrition

Community Housing Sonoma County

Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Charities of the Diocese of. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

14/14

Grantees still filing

13/14

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Human Services$40,241,692Other$33,198,288Food & Nutrition$6,859,366Community Improvement$846,953Philanthropy$505,395

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.

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.

United Way of the Bay AreaCA20.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Bay Area · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving 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 organisation 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.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BENICIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL - SOLANO.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~12 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 680294153 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on BENICIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL - SOLANO, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 12 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 82% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund?

Find your warmest path to Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund?

More from the funding graph

CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

14 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund?

More from the funding graph