· Public charity
Cupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation
Provide funding through donations and grants to qualified charitable,scientific, educational and public purpose organizations.
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.
The 9 grants below total $522,743 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $618,656 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $95,913 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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $384k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| World Vision Inc | $221,000 |
| Rotary D5170 Foundation | $163,425 |
| Foothill-DeAnza Foundation | $30,114 |
| SJSU | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,440 |
| Bill Wilson Center | $21,150 |
| West Valley Community Serv | $12,148 |
| Pacific Clinics | $11,466 |
| The Rotary Foundation | $8,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $95k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Cupertino Rotary Endowment Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +77% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $47k 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
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 51709× · 2017–2025 · $450k · revenue +30%
- FCFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $191k · revenue +11%
- WVWEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $98k · revenue +125%
Funded once
- AIASSIST INTERNATIONAL INCone grant, 2018 · $38k · revenue +0%
- VMValley Medical Center Foundatone grant, 2020 · $25k
- MSMarine Science Institutegraduatedone grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue +92%
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.
Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Devworks international is dedicated to a society where all people enjoy the freedom to pursue their own sustainable development. we contribute to this by strengthening the capacity of local organizations.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
Chac seeks to improve lives and strengthen communities through access to comprehensive and culturally responsive mental health services in northern santa clara county.
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The mission of sunnyvale community services is to prevent homelessness and hunger for low-income sunnyvale residents facing temporary crises.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Drc works in partnership with disabled people to defend rights, advance opportunities, grow power, and expand public support for disability justice in california and beyond.
Valle del sol inspires positive change by investing in health and human services to strengthen families with tools and skills for self-sufficiency and by building the next generation of latino and diverse leaders.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Selectiva Charities Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
21 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. 21 of the 27 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 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5170 ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION INC ↗
- Who funds FOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ASSIST INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Marine Science Institute ↗
- Who funds VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BILL WILSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds Animal Assisted Happiness Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CYCLES OF CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds Rotary District 5000 Foundation ↗
- Who funds GIRL SCOUTS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SELECTIVA CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE-SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds SUNWORK RENEWABLE ENERGY PROJECTS ↗
- Who funds MEI FONG AND ASSOCIATES AWS ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · 100 Women Charitable Foundation Inc · Star One Credit Union · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Sharks Foundation · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community 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 Cupertino Rotary Endowment 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.
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.