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Excite Credit Union (Fka Alliance Credit Union)

Excite credit union is a cooperative, organized for the purpose of promoting thrift and savings among its members, creating a source of credit for them at rates of interest set by the board of directors, and providing an opportunity for them to use and control their own money on a democratic basis in order to improve their economic and…

$657k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$113k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0184% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2024.

Human Services$486kCommunity Improvement$206kArts & Culture$124kHousing & Shelter$105kEducation$91kHealth$59kRecreation & Sports$38kCivil Rights$10kPhilanthropy$10kOther$243k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $569,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $657,075 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $87,575 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $399k
$30,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$626M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE$112,500
SAN JOSE GRAIL FAMILY SERVICES INC$105,000
HISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY$81,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY$50,000
SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION$50,000
ALUM ROCK UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT$30,000
EAST SIDE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT$30,000
THE HEALING PLACE OF NEW HANOVER COUNTY$30,000
EXCITE FOUNDATION$20,000
WEST CONTRA COSTA PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$10,000
ESCUELA POPULAR$10,000
LATINO BUSINESS FOUNDATION SV$10,000
PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS$10,000
HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION$8,500
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP$6,000
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 (FY19–24, $486k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%OPERATION CARE AND COMFORT: $5k → 10%AMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE: $113k → 8%SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $13k → 8%SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%RAZING THE BAR: $8k → 8%SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $8k → 8%SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $6k → 8%RAZING THE BAR: $6k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC: $5k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $20k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $10k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $10k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $10k → 8%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $5k → 8%EXCITE FOUNDATION: $52k → 8%EXCITE FOUNDATION: $48k → 8%EXCITE FOUNDATION: $40k → 8%EXCITE FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $50k → 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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of Excite Credit Union (Fka Alliance Credit Union)’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. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 86% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Excite Credit Union (Fka Alliance Credit Union)lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

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.

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$779k · 14 repeat orgs$593k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
17

Total granted

$779k
$159k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+15%

Still filing today

100%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $434k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHealthEducationArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • PC
    PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS
    6× · 2019–2024 · $78k · revenue +29%
  • ES
    East Side Union High School District Education Foundation
    5× · 2019–2024 · $73k · revenue +366%
  • SM
    SOMOS MAYFAIR INC
    3× · 2020–2023 · $63k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • SF
    SOUL FOCUS LLC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k
  • SH
    SV HALL LLC
    one grant, 2020 · $26k
  • SC
    SJSV COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -79%

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
El Concilio California

Empowering diverse communities in california's central valley.

Human Services
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 Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
4
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
5
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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6
Faces Sf

Our mission is to nurture, teach and empower children and families to transform their lives by providing critical assistance to low-income families with early childhood development, workforce training, school-age enrichment, and family…

Education
7
Sv Home

Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.

Housing & Shelter
8
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
9
Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley

Our Mission is to develop and strengthen the power of Latinas to advance our collective success through sisterhood, leadership, and civic engagement.

Public Benefit
10
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc

To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.

Crime & Legal
11
Cristo Rey San Jose High School

Cristo rey san jose is a jesuit, catholic college-prep high school that combines rigorous academics with professional work internships, preparing students from underserved communities in silicon valley to (see schedule o)pursue college and…

Education
12
Sacramento Steps Forward

The Organization's mission is to ensure that individuals and families experiencing homelessness or the risk of homelessness are able to access housing services and resources on their path to economic stability. The Organization is the lead…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Amigos De Guadalupe Center for Justice and Enpowerment and the most unlike its peers is Wilmington Downtown 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 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr15%37%20–35yr16%17%35–55yr9%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%1%<5yr15%21%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr15%45%20–35yr16%8%35–55yr9%6%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/36
the rest of the field
11%
1,300/11,673

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.

05the grantee network

33 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. 33 of the 40 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/33
Grantees still filing
21/33
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

EXCITE FOUNDATION — $159,756 · Human ServicesEXCITE FOUNDATIONAMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND ENPOWERMENT — $112,500 · Human ServicesAMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE A…SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $85,700 · Human ServicesSUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATIONBILL WILSON CENTER — $50,000 · Human ServicesBILL WILSON CENTERCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $50,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY+4 more — $28,475 · Human Services+4 morePIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $77,955 · OtherPIVOTAL CONNECTIONSSOUL FOCUS LLC — $30,000 · OtherSOUL FOCUS LLCAlum Rock Union Elementary School District — $30,000 · OtherAlum Rock Union Elementa…SV HALL LLC — $25,500 · OtherSV HALL LLCWest Contra Costa Public Education Fund — $21,500 · OtherWest Contra Costa Public…CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK — $37,500 · OtherCHRISTMAS IN THE PARKCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $10,150 · Other+9 more — $67,986 · Other+9 moreHISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $81,500 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FOUNDATI…SOMOS MAYFAIR INC — $63,150 · Community ImprovementSOMOS MAYFAIR INCLATINO BUSINESS FOUNDATION SILICON VALLEY — $47,500 · Community ImprovementLATINO BUSINESS F…COMITE DE FIESTAS PATRIAS DE SAN JOSE CA — $8,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $6,000 · Community ImprovementSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $113,500 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF …SILICON VALLEY CREATES — $10,000 · Arts & CultureSILICON VA…San Jose Grail Family Services — $105,000 · Housing & ShelterEast Side Union High School District Education Foundation — $73,285 · EducationESCUELA POPULAR DEL PUEBLO — $10,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY — $7,550 · EducationThe Healing Place of New Hanover County Inc — $30,000 · HealthThe Carousel Center Inc — $15,153 · HealthHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $8,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $5,150 · Health
Human Services$486,431Other$300,591Community Improvement$206,150Arts & Culture$123,500Housing & Shelter$105,000Education$90,835Health$58,803

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 budgetEXCITE FOUNDATION — $159,756 over 4y, 90% of budgetSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $113,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetAMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND ENPOWERMENT — $112,500 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSan Jose Grail Family Services — $105,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $85,700 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetHISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $81,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $77,955 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetEast Side Union High School District Education Foundation — $73,285 over 5y, 13% of budgetSOMOS MAYFAIR INC — $63,150 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBILL WILSON CENTER — $50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLATINO BUSINESS FOUNDATION SILICON VALLEY — $47,500 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCHRISTMAS IN THE PARK — $37,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetThe Healing Place of New Hanover County Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWest Contra Costa Public Education Fund — $21,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Carousel Center Inc — $15,153 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetRAZING THE BAR — $13,475 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $10,150 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSJSV COMMUNITY BENEFIT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetESCUELA POPULAR DEL PUEBLO — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CREATES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMITE DE FIESTAS PATRIAS DE SAN JOSE CA — $8,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY — $7,550 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVEGGIELUTION — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPhoenix Employment Services of Wilmingto Inc DBA StepUp Wilmington — $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $5,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION CARE AND COMFORT — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCommunity Financial Resources — $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetWilmington Downtown Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $5,000 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 Sobrato Family Fo…The David and Lucile …San Jose Mercury News…Silicon Valley Commun…The Applied Materials…Leo M Shortino Family…Destination Home SV c…Los Altos Mountain Vi…Rotary Club of San Jo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Sunlight GivingTides Foundation
The Sobrato Family FoundationCA46.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sobrato Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sunlight Giving · Tides 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 Excite Credit Union (Fka Alliance Credit Union) 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%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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 40 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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