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· 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.

$13M
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$2.2M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Housing & Shelter$75MFood & Nutrition$15M
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $50k–250k5 grants · $692k
  • $250k+13 grants · $13M
$505,395
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO - SOLANO$118,910
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES - SANTA CLARA: $2.2M → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $744k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $789k → 9%BENICIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL - SOLANO: $735k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - SAN FRANCISCO: $3.5M → 10%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES - SANTA CLARA: $2.2M → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $653k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $702k → 9%BENICIA COMM ACTION COUNCIL-SOLANO: $701k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - SAN FRANCISCO: $2.5M → 10%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES - SANTA CLARA: $1.9M → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $689k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $381k → 9%BENICIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL - SOLANO: $612k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - SF: $2.5M → 10%SUNNYVALE COMM SERVICES -SANTA CLARA: $2.1M → 8%NAPA COUNTY FOOD BANK: $144k → 9%BENICIA COMM ACTION COUNCIL-SOLANO: $561k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - SF: $2.3M → 10%SUNNYVALE COMM SERVICES -SANTA CLARA: $2.1M → 8%NAPA COUNTY FOOD BANK: $142k → 9%BENICIA COMM ACTION COUNCIL-SOLANO: $405k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - SAN FRANCISCO: $2.0M → 10%SUNNYVALE COMM SERVICES -SANTA CLARA: $1.5M → 8%NAPA COUNTY FOOD BANK: $140k → 9%BENICIA COMM ACTION COUNCIL-SOLANO: $367k → 10%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - ALAMEDA: $1.9M → 10%SUNNYVALE COMM SERVICES - SANTA CLARA: $1.1M → 8%NAPA COUNTY FOOD BANK: $125k → 9%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - CONTRA COSTA: $1.3M → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $694k → 8%NAPA COUNTY FOOD BANK: $119k → 9%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - SF: $1.3M → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $648k → 8%NAPA COUNTY FOOD BANK: $102k → 9%HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME - SF: $751k → 10%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $645k → 8%NAPA COUNTY FOOD BANK: $72k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $337k → 8%COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $768k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $697k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $405k → 9%COMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $367k → 9%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.
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89M · 15 repeat orgs$505k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +96% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

15
1

Total granted

$89M
$505k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
0%

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.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyOther
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

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND
    8× · 2017–2024 · $20M · revenue +18% · 50% of their budget
  • HF
    HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18M · revenue +44% · 82% of their budget
  • SC
    SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    9× · 2017–2025 · $13M · revenue +128%

Funded once

  • UW
    UNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION
    one grant, 2025 · $505k · revenue 0%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.

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2
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
3
Alchemist Cdc

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…

Community Improvement
4
Food in Need of Distribution Inc

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.

Food & Nutrition
5
The Resource Connection of Amador and Calaveras Counties Inc

The resource connection's mission is to engage families, empower communities, and enrich the lives of the residents of amador and calaveras counties.

Human Services
6
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…

—
7
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

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 & Nutrition
8
Community Food Bank of San Benito County

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.

Education
9
Extrafood

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…

Food & Nutrition
10
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
11
South Palo Alto Food Closet

Provide food to qualifying families in Palo Alto

Food & Nutrition
12
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

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.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Action Marin; 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 16 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
13/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $17,954,283 · Human ServicesHOLY FAMILY DAY HOMESUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13,125,268 · Human ServicesSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICESCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $4,952,111 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEYCOMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $4,408,720 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY ACTION MARINBENICIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $3,380,221 · Human ServicesBENICIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCILCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND: $19,886,924 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLANDSAMARITAN HOUSE: $7,979,678 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSESAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3,090,786 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKTHE SALVATION ARMY: $2,812,323 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMYALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $2,765,176 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK+1 more: $414,300 · OtherSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $3,885,762 · Food & NutritionSECOND HA…FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $2,739,102 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK…REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $843,442 · Food & NutritionREDWOOD E…COMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY: $846,953 · Community ImprovementUNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION: $505,395 · Philanthropy
Human Services$43,820,603Other$36,949,187Food & Nutrition$7,468,306Community Improvement$846,953Philanthropy$505,395

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 budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND: $19,886,924 over 8y, 50% of budgetHOLY FAMILY DAY HOME: $17,954,283 over 9y, 82% of budgetSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $13,125,268 over 9y, 17% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $7,979,678 over 9y, 6.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION OF NAPA VALLEY: $4,952,111 over 9y, 11% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION MARIN: $4,408,720 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $3,885,762 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetBENICIA COMMUNITY ACTION COUNCIL: $3,380,221 over 8y, 92% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $3,090,786 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $2,765,176 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $2,739,102 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY ACTION PARTNERSHIP OF SONOMA COUNTY: $846,953 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $843,442 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY CALIFORNIA CAPITAL REGION: $505,395 over 1y, 1.8% 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 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 ↗

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.

United Way of the Bay…Kaiser Foundation Hos…McNabb FoundationMarin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…United Way WorldwideSilicon Valley Commun…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…
United Way of the Bay AreaCA19.8× 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 · 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

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 Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 16 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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