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Community Foundation of San Carlos

The mission of Community Foundation of San Carlos is to amplify the work of nonprofits serving san carlos through grants from its endowment income & community donations to raise funds for special projects addressing community needs and to build a greater sense of community in san carlos through outreach community events.

$201k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2020–2025.

Food & Nutrition$182kHealth$174kEducation$156kHuman Services$123kHousing & Shelter$109kArts & Culture$91kCommunity Improvement$56kEmployment$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $150,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $200,566 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $50,566 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $126k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST VINCENT DEPAUL-SAN CARLOS CONFERENCE$15,000
THE MULTICULTURAL INSTATUTE$14,000
HEALTHY CITIES TUTORING$12,500
MELP-ABLECLOSET$12,000
SAN CARLOS CHILDRENS THEATRE$12,000
Casa Circulo Cultural$10,000
EACH GREEN CORNER$10,000
UPWARD SCHOLAR$10,000
VILLAGES OF SAN MATEO COUNTY$10,000
LEARNING HOME VOLUNTEERS$10,000
CALIFORNIA CLUBHOUSE$10,000
Voices of Recovery San Mateo County$7,500
FFRIENDS FOR YOUTH$5,000
WANDA (Woman and Allies)$5,000
BraveMaker$5,000
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 (FY20–25, $134k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%THE MULTICULTURAL INSTATUTE: $14k → 10%THE MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE: $10k → 10%PARCA: $15k → 7%MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE: $5k → 10%PARCA: $5k → 8%WANDA (Woman and Allies): $5k → 8%STAR VISTA: $8k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $8k → 7%ST VINCENT DE PAUL: $15k → 7%SMCUCA: $10k → 7%ST VINCENT DE PAUL - SMC: $10k → 7%ST VINCENT DE PAUL - SAN CARLOS CONFERENCE: $10k → 7%STAR VISTA: $10k → 7%ST VINCENT DE PAUL - SMC: $5k → 7%MY NEW RED SHOES: $5k → 7%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.

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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$761k · 26 repeat orgs$226k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
22

Total granted

$761k
$197k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+15%

Still filing today

85%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther

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

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    2× · 2020–2022 · $59k · revenue +45%
  • SAMARITAN HOUSE
    2× · 2020–2022 · $59k · revenue +50%
  • EG
    EACH GREEN CORNER
    6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +393%

Funded once

  • AO
    ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +56%
  • AG
    AVENIR GROUP
    one grant, 2020 · $25k
  • SM
    San Mateo County Union Community Alliance
    one grant, 2023 · $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
Institute for Human & Social Development

Institute for Human and Social Development provides excellent comprehensive child development and family support services through center based family child care and home visiting to the highest need children of 0-5 years old and their…

Education
2
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
3
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center

SVILC builds disability identity, culture, pride, creating opportunities for personal and community transformation, and partnering with others to ensure that civil and human rights are protected.

Human Services
4
Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County Inc

The Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County, Inc. (4Cs) connects and empowers families, educators, and child care providers with resources today for a stronger San Mateo County tomorrow.

Human Services
5
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
6
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
7
Serra Residential Center Inc

To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities

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8
Homeward Bound of Marin

Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…

Housing & Shelter
9
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
10
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…

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11
Sierra Vista Child & Family Services

Sierra Vista Child & Family Services (SVCFS) is a non-profit community based organization providing services for children, youth, adults, and families since 1972 to over 16,000 children and families yearly. The agency provides an extensive…

Human Services
12
Marin Ventures

The mission of Marin Ventures is to serve adults with developmental disabilities by fostering independence, personal growth, and promoting the opportunity for community integration based upon individual need.Marin Ventures is an Adult…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifemoves and the most unlike its peers is Healthy Cities Tutoring Inc. 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 23 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number21%2%<5yr13%12%5–10yr19%26%10–20yr18%30%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value21%1%<5yr13%11%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr12%25%35–55yr16%3%55yr+

The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
6%
3/52
the rest of the field
10%
383/3,833

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

45 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. 45 of the 53 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
33/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAMARITAN HOUSE — $59,000 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSELIFEMOVES — $25,500 · OtherLIFEMOVESAVENIR GROUP — $25,000 · OtherAVENIR GROUPSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO — $25,000 · OtherSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTIC…CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse — $22,000 · OtherCORA Community Overcoming Relationsh…HOME AND HOPE — $18,000 · OtherHOME AND HOPETHERE WITH CARE — $15,000 · OtherFriends of Redwood — $12,500 · OtherVILLAGES OF SAN MATEO COUNTY — $34,000 · OtherVILLAGES OF SAN MATEO COUNTYFRIENDS FOR YOUTH INC — $22,500 · OtherFRIENDS FOR YOUTH INCCASA of San Mateo County — $13,500 · Other+10 more — $48,000 · Other+10 moreHEALTHY CITIES TUTORING INC — $43,500 · EducationHEALTHY CITIES …Upward Scholars — $35,000 · EducationUpward ScholarsLearning Home Volunteers — $30,000 · EducationLearning Home V…ARBOR BAY SCHOOL — $15,000 · EducationARBOR BAY SCHOO…Sequoia High School Education Foundation — $10,000 · EducationSequoia High Sc…SAN CARLOS CHARTER LEARNING CENTER — $5,000 · EducationCalifornia Clubhouse DBA Aspire House — $45,000 · HealthCalifornia Club…ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER — $26,000 · HealthONE LIFE COUNSE…MELP - ABLECLOSET — $21,000 · HealthMELP - ABLECLOS…PENINSULA FAMILY CONNECTIONS — $10,000 · HealthPENINSULA FAMIL…SEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $8,000 · HealthSEQUOIA HOSPITA…EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $7,500 · HealthEDGEWOOD CENTER…Voices of Recovery San Mateo County — $7,500 · HealthVoices of Recov…ONE STEP BEYOND INC — $5,000 · HealthSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $2,500 · HealthSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO INC — $40,000 · Human ServicesSOCIETY OF ST V…MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE — $29,000 · Human ServicesMULTICULTURAL I…PARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $19,500 · Human ServicesPARTNERS AND AD…StarVista — $17,500 · Human ServicesStarVistaSan Mateo County Union Community Alliance — $10,000 · Human ServicesSan Mateo Count…PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC — $7,500 · Human ServicesPENINSULA VOLUN…MBOLDEN CHANGE — $5,000 · Human ServicesWanda Women and Allies — $5,000 · Human ServicesEACH GREEN CORNER — $52,500 · Community ImprovementEACH GREEN C…ACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $50,000 · Community ImprovementACCION OPPOR…Community Equity Collaborative — $10,000 · Community ImprovementCommunity Eq…SAN CARLOS CHILDRENS THEATER — $52,500 · Arts & CultureSAN CARLO…MUSIC FOR MINORS INC — $18,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC FOR…CASA CIRCULO CULTURAL — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCASA CIRC…BRAVEMAKER — $5,000 · Arts & CultureBRAVEMAKE…SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $59,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$320,000Education$138,500Health$137,500Human Services$133,500Community Improvement$112,500Arts & Culture$85,500Food & Nutrition$59,000

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 budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $59,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE — $59,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEACH GREEN CORNER — $52,500 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetSAN CARLOS CHILDRENS THEATER — $52,500 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetACCION OPPORTUNITY FUND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Clubhouse DBA Aspire House — $45,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetHEALTHY CITIES TUTORING INC — $43,500 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetUpward Scholars — $35,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetVILLAGES OF SAN MATEO COUNTY — $34,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetLearning Home Volunteers — $30,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetMULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE — $29,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER — $26,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS FOR YOUTH INC — $22,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse — $22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMELP - ABLECLOSET — $21,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetPARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $19,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMUSIC FOR MINORS INC — $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetStarVista — $17,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetARBOR BAY SCHOOL — $15,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCASA of San Mateo County — $13,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPENINSULA FAMILY CONNECTIONS — $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSan Mateo County Health Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Equity Collaborative — $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSequoia High School Education Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVoices of Recovery San Mateo County — $7,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHuman Investment Project Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBRAVEMAKER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMBOLDEN CHANGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetService League of San Mateo County DBA Hope House — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAN CARLOS CHARTER LEARNING CENTER — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE STEP BEYOND INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWanda Women and Allies — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMarine Science Institute — $3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUSTICE AT LAST INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Atkinson FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Bothin FoundationSand Hill FoundationThe Palo Alto Communi…Second Harvest of Sil…The Sobrato Family Fo…Monterra Community Fu…The San Bruno Communi…Philanthropic Venture…The David and Lucile …Sutter Bay Hospitals
Atkinson FoundationCA59× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atkinson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Monterra Community Fund · The San Bruno Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals

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 Foundation of San Carlos 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your 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
    28report 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

    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 53 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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