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Farrington Historical Foundation

The mission of the FARRINGTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION is to restore and conserve the kirk-farrington house and grounds as an example of silicon valley's historic past and as the home of the junior league of san jose who is a benefactor of the FARRINGTON HISTORICAL FOUNDATION.

$253k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$23k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0178% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$377kHealth$212kCommunity Improvement$204kHuman Services$154kEducation$140kAnimals$77kEnvironment$55kFood & Nutrition$54kPhilanthropy$41kOther$431k
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $193,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $253,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $59,500 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 $10k4 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $165k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN JOSE$23,000
MONTALVO ASSOCIATION (MONTALVO ARTS CENTER)$20,400
VIA SERVICES WEST$20,000
ASHWORTH-REMILLARD HOUSE$15,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER SILICON VALLEY$14,000
AFRICAN AMERICAN HERITAGE HOUSE$12,100
RECOVERY CAFE SAN JOSE$10,000
SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART$10,000
SAN JOSE TAIKO GROUP$10,000
PENINSULA FOOD RUNNERS$10,000
WALDEN WEST FOUNDATION$10,000
GOOD KARMA BIKES$10,000
LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION$8,000
TRITON MUSEUM OF ART$7,500
CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY$7,000
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 (FY17–25, $145k) 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%GOOD KARMA BIKES: $10k → 8%UNITY CARE GROUP: $10k → 8%LIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES: $6k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $22k → 8%FRONT DOOR COMMUNITIES: $20k → 8%RECOVERY CAFE SAN JOSE: $10k → 8%LIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES: $10k → 8%VALLEY VERDE: $8k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATO: $8k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATO: $8k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATO: $8k → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATO: $6k → 8%GOOD KARMA BIKES: $10k → 8%GOOD KARMA BIKES: $10k → 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.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.4M · 33 repeat orgs$341k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
29

Total granted

$1.4M
$299k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+21%

Still filing today

94%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEducationEnvironmentAnimalsOther

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

  • RT
    REBUILDING TOGETHER SILICON VALLEY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $103k · revenue +31%
  • OS
    ONE STEP CLOSER THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC
    6× · 2017–2024 · $79k · revenue +22%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA
    4× · 2019–2024 · $72k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $22k · revenue +73%
  • FD
    Front Door Communities
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -34%
  • SH
    Saratoga Historical Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue -90%

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
San Jose Chamber Orchestra

The mission of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra (SJCO) is to share exciting, though-provoking, and vibrant Music by contemporary and time-honored composers reflecting the cultural diversity of our everchanging community, and to support and…

Unclassified
2
San Francisco City Guides

Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.

Human Services
3
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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4
San Jose Chamber Music Society

To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…

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5
San Jose Stage Company

Live theatre; for benefit of actors, directors and public

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6
San Joaquin County Historical Society

The San Joaquin County Historical Society & Museum engages and inspires people and communities by preserving and showcasing the agricultural innovation, ingenuity, and diverse histories of our county.

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7
Santa Ynez Valley Historical Society

To educate the public and preserve the history of the santa ynez valley.

Arts & Culture
8
Sv Home

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

Housing & Shelter
9
Silicon Valley Shakespeare

Silicon valley shakespeare is innovating the classics through unique and relevant theatrical experiences that illuminate and inspire modern audiences.

Arts & Culture
10
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

The mission of the San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles is to preserve, celebrate, and promote knowledge about quilts and textiles, their creation, their beauty, and their relationship to human culture and expression.

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Guzheng Music Society
Arts & Culture
12
Sunnyvale Historical Society and Museum Association

To preserve, archive and present the history of Sunnyvale to people of Sunnyvale of a close-up, well documented look at the unique history - from the Ohlone Indians who lived in their Valley in the distant past to the technological…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is School of Arts and Culture At Mhp and the most unlike its peers is Campbell Museum Foundation. 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 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%2%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr15%28%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr9%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%2%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr9%35%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/66
the rest of the field
11%
1,112/10,411

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

62 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. 62 of the 66 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
60/62
Grantees still filing
42/62
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

WILDLIFE CENTER OF SILICON VALLEY — $96,500 · OtherWILDLIFE CENTER OF SILICON VALLEYASHWORTH REMILLARD — $78,250 · OtherASHWORTH REMILLARDRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA — $72,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY…LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $25,445 · OtherEnvironmental Volunteers Inc — $24,500 · OtherVILLAGE HARVEST CORPORATION — $44,100 · OtherVILLAGE HARVEST CORPORATIONWALDEN WEST OUTDOOR SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $40,500 · OtherWALDEN WEST OUTDOOR SCHOOL FOUNDATIONCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $30,000 · Other+15 more — $169,428 · Other+15 moreTRITON MUSEUM OF ART — $47,500 · Arts & CultureTRITON MUSEUM OF ARTSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION — $42,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART A…MONTALVO ASSOCIATION — $26,100 · Arts & CultureMONTALVO ASSOCIATIONASSOCIATION OF THE LOS ALTOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM AKA LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM — $25,500 · Arts & CultureASSOCIATION OF THE LOS A…JAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM…GILBERT AND SULLIVAN SOCIETY OF SAN JOSE — $25,000 · Arts & CultureGILBERT AND SULLIVAN SOC…HISTORY SAN JOSE — $24,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORY SAN JOSECAMPBELL MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $21,500 · Arts & CultureCAMPBELL MUSEUM FOUNDATI…COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $16,200 · Arts & CultureSTEINWAY SOCIETY - THE BAY AREA — $16,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $87,950 · Arts & Culture+9 moreONE STEP CLOSER THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $79,350 · HealthONE STEP CLOS…VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC — $73,555 · HealthVIA REHABILIT…HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $31,000 · HealthHEALTHIER KID…JW HOUSE — $18,500 · HealthJW HOUSECANCER CAREPOINT INC — $10,000 · HealthJUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN JOSE — $203,700 · Community ImprovementJUNIOR LEAGUE…GOOD KARMA BIKES INC — $30,000 · Human ServicesGOOD KARMA…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA — $29,500 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE…NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $21,750 · Human ServicesNEXT DOOR …Front Door Communities — $20,000 · Human ServicesFront Door…LIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES INC — $16,246 · Human ServicesLIFE SERVI…Recovery Cafe San Jose — $10,000 · Human ServicesRecovery C…THE UNITY CARE GROUP — $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITY …SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $9,000 · Human ServicesSUNDAY FRI…Valley Verde — $8,000 · Human ServicesREBUILDING TOGETHER SILICON VALLEY — $103,150 · EducationREBUILDIN…PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE - SOUTH BAY — $11,000 · EducationPURSUIT O…RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING — $10,000 · EducationRESOURCE …SAN JOSE WOMANS CLUB — $8,000 · EducationSAN JOSE …VANGUARD MUSIC AND PERFORMING ARTS — $7,500 · EducationVANGUARD …HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY — $60,500 · AnimalsSILICON VALLEY PET PROJECT — $10,000 · AnimalsHappy Hollow Foundation — $6,000 · Animals
Other$580,723Arts & Culture$376,750Health$212,405Community Improvement$203,700Human Services$154,496Education$139,650Animals$76,500

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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN JOSE — $203,700 over 9y, 8.8% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SILICON VALLEY — $103,150 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetWILDLIFE CENTER OF SILICON VALLEY — $96,500 over 4y, 6.4% of budgetONE STEP CLOSER THERAPEUTIC HORSEMANSHIP INC — $79,350 over 6y, 11% of budgetVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC — $73,555 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA — $72,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY — $60,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTRITON MUSEUM OF ART — $47,500 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetVILLAGE HARVEST CORPORATION — $44,100 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION — $42,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetWALDEN WEST OUTDOOR SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $40,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $31,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD KARMA BIKES INC — $30,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA — $29,500 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION — $26,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE LOS ALTOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM AKA LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM — $25,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION — $25,445 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetJAPANESE AMERICAN MUSEUM OF SAN JOSE — $25,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetGILBERT AND SULLIVAN SOCIETY OF SAN JOSE — $25,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetEnvironmental Volunteers Inc — $24,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetHISTORY SAN JOSE — $24,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $21,750 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCAMPBELL MUSEUM FOUNDATION — $21,500 over 2y, 16% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFront Door Communities — $20,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetTabard Theatre Company The — $18,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetJW HOUSE — $18,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES INC — $16,246 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $16,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTEINWAY SOCIETY - THE BAY AREA — $16,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetPRESERVATION ACTION COUNCIL OF SAN JOSE — $15,730 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetSaratoga Historical Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetGuadalupe River Park Conservancy — $15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSOUTH BAY GUITAR SOCIETY OF SAN JOSE — $12,500 over 2y, 10% of budgetPURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE - SOUTH BAY — $11,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetMUSIC FOR MINORS INC — $10,950 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLIVING CLASSROOM — $10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSan Jose Taiko Group Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ADAPTIVE ARTS — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSILICON VALLEY PET PROJECT — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetBOOKS ALOUD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFURRY FRIENDS PET ASSISTED THERAPY SERV — $10,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetSAN JOSE YOUTH SYMPHONY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSARATOGA FOOTHILL CLUB HISTORIC LANDMARK FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTHE UNITY CARE GROUP — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER CAREPOINT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …Los Altos Mountain Vi…The Applied Materials…San Jose Mercury News…Rotary Club of San Jo…Leo M Shortino Family…Silicon Valley CreatesThe Sobrato Family Fo…Agilent Technologies …Bright Funds Foundati…Heffernan Group Found…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA46.6× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Creates · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Agilent Technologies Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Heffernan Group 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 Farrington Historical 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    27report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Farrington Historical Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Farrington Historical Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 66 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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