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Community Education 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.

$1k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
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States reached
$1k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$581kArts & Culture$31kHealth$11kInternational$10kYouth Development$10kPhilanthropy$10kCommunity Improvement$10kScience & Tech$8kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
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States reached
$101k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOS ALTOS ROTARY ENDOWMENT FUND$1,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 98% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%NEUROENDOCRINE TUMOR RESEARCH: $3k → 16%LOS ALTOS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $5k → 8%ETERNITYWORKS dba YOUTH NOW: $10k → 13%LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA: $10k → 9%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $225k → 10%NORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGE: $38k → 12%AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY: $500 → 8%ALPHA DELTA PI FOUNDATION: $1k → 13%ROARING FORK OUTDOOR VOLUNTEERS: $3k → 6%SAE FOUNDATION: $5k → 14%CASA: $3k → 15%LOVE FOUNDATION US INC: $10k → 6%LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM: $5k → 8%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $75k → 10%NORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGE: $38k → 12%LOS ALTOS STAGE COMPANY: $5k → 8%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $58k → 10%NORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGE: $22k → 12%LOS ALTOS STAGE CO: $5k → 8%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%NIACC FOUNDATION: $20k → 12%LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM: $5k → 8%DRAKE UNIVERSITY: $50k → 10%ROOSEVELT ELEMENTARY PTO: $600 → 12%LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM: $3k → 8%LOS ALTOS STAGE COMPANY: $3k → 8%BUS BARN STAGE CO: $1k → 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

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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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$591k · 6 repeat orgs$86k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
16

Total granted

$591k
$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+17%

Still filing today

67%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEducationInternationalOther

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

  • DRAKE UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2021 · $458k · revenue +20%
  • BB
    Bus Barn Stage Company
    2× · 2022–2023 · $8k · revenue +5%
  • TL
    THE LOS ALTOS ROTARY ENDOWMENT FUND INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $5k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • NF
    NIACC FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
  • ED
    ETERNITYWORKS dba YOUTH NOW
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • LF
    LOVE FOUNDATION US INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -89%

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.

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Los Altos Journalism Foundation
2
Los Alamos Foundation
Philanthropy
3
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
Philanthropy
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Los Altos Chamber of Commerce

To encourage and promote businesses and to stimulate a vibrant economy in los altos and los altos hills.

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Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
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Los Altos Sunset Rotary Club Endowment Fund Inc
Community Improvement
7
California Agricultural Leadership Found

To enhance the long-term viability of california agriculture through leadership development, which in turn benefits the people and communities that agriculture serves. we grow leaders who make a difference.

Food & Nutrition
8
Lat Foundation
Philanthropy
9
Lsf Foundation
Philanthropy
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Los Angeles Pacific University

Los angeles pacific university exists to deliver high quality, accessible christ-centered education to learners everywhere.

Education
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The Los Altos Library Endowment

The los altos library endowment is dedicated to strengthening the long-term infrastructure of our local libraries. our mission is to fund transformative, enduring capital improvements that elevate the library experience for our community.

Education
12
American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases Foundation

To invest in innovative hepatology research and in the people who study and treat liver disease.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Altos Educational Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Shp Christian Foundation. 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

12 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. 12 of the 22 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.

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

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DRAKE UNIVERSITY — $458,047 · EducationDRAKE UNIVERSITYNORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGE — $98,000 · OtherNORTH IOWA AREA COMM COLLEGENIACC FOUNDATION — $20,000 · OtherNIACC FOUNDATIONETERNITYWORKS dba YOUTH NOW — $10,000 · OtherETERNITYWORKS dba YOUTH NOWLOS ALTOS ROTARY ENDOWMENT — $9,500 · OtherLOS ALTOS ROTARY ENDOWMENT+10 more — $30,100 · Other+10 moreASSOCIATION OF THE LOS ALTOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM AKA LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM — $12,500 · Arts & CultureBus Barn Stage Company — $7,500 · Arts & CultureBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500 · HealthLOVE FOUNDATION US INC — $10,000 · InternationalLOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropySHP CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Philanthropy
Education$458,047Other$167,600Arts & Culture$20,000Health$10,500International$10,000Philanthropy$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetDRAKE UNIVERSITY — $458,047 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE LOS ALTOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM AKA LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM — $12,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOVE FOUNDATION US INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBus Barn Stage Company — $7,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MORNING FORUM OF LOS ALTOS — $5,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE LOS ALTOS ROTARY ENDOWMENT FUND INC — $5,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetLOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHP CHRISTIAN FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRoaring Fork Outdoor Volunteers — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALPHA DELTA PI FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $500 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.

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 FoundationCA13.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Community Education 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.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 22 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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