· Public charity
George Archer Memorial Foundation for Literacy
To support tutoring programs for people afflicted with learning disabilities that interfere with their ability to process written communications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of GEORGE ARCHER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FOR LITERACY’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STERNE SCHOOL | $41,100 |
| LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION | $41,100 |
| CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL | $41,100 |
| SAN MATEO PUBLIC LIBRARY | $41,100 |
| LEAD SCHOOL | $41,100 |
| KENWOOD ELEMENTRY SCHOOL | $41,100 |
| APTOS MIDDLE SCHOOL | $27,400 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION (UCSF DYSLEXIA CENTER) | $22,122 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 28% of your 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.
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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $151k 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
- TCTHE CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $216k · revenue +77%
- SMSan Mateo Public Library Foundation8× · 2017–2025 · $211k · revenue 0%
- PCPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS4× · 2021–2025 · $56k
Funded once
- CHCompass High Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +35%
- WCWASHOE COUNTY SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2019 · $5k
- PNPTA NEVADA CONGRESSone grant, 2017 · $5k
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.
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
Support elementary school education
An intentionally small community where young people are valued as individuals. A compassionate team of educators approach academic & social-emotional development with the aim of cultivating justice-seeking humans empowered to transform…
The Santa Monica Education Foundation (SMEF) raises funds to enhance and supplement the curriculum of every public school in the city of Santa Monica.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Parent Teacher Association to support children and educators of Sunset Elementary School in San Francisco
Spruce Street School is a nurturing educational community that instills in a broad range of children the social, emotional, and intellectual skills for lifelong participation in a diverse society. We offer kindergarten through fifth grade…
Educational, charitable, philanthropic
Folsom Prep Academy is renowned for providing academic excellence in K-5 grade levels while also developing necessary leadership and life skills in our students. Using an enriched and diverse curriculum, our teachers place personalized…
Our mission is to spark wonder and intellectual curiosity in each child. We achieve this through a purposeful blend of:Engaging academics custom-tailored to each child's abilities, strengths and interests;An unparalleled social-emotional…
To support School Bond Measure advocating for modernization, safety, school nutrition, and infrastructure in San Francisco, CA.
to fund and help students with supplies field trip event and extracurricular activity costs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sterne School and the most unlike its peers is Live Like Coco Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 THE CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds San Mateo Public Library Foundation ↗
- Who funds PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS ↗
- Who funds STERNE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds LIVE LIKE COCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds APTOS JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL ADVISORY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Compass High School ↗
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.
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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 George Archer Memorial Foundation for Literacy 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.
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