· Public charity
Gilroy Foundation
Founded in 1980, the GILROY FOUNDATION was organized specifically to help the needs of the community in the areas of health, education, recreation, culture and civic services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $1,119,884 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,563,024 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $443,140 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 $10k15 grants · $92k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $156k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $277k
- $250k+1 grant · $594k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIGITAL NEST | $594,215 |
| VARIOUS 5000 OR LESS | $116,138 |
| CHRISTOPHER HIGH SCHOOL | $96,329 |
| GILROY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRIC | $65,009 |
| ST JOSEPH FAMILY CENTER | $40,948 |
| GILROY HIGH SCHOOL | $32,195 |
| GILROY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $26,131 |
| GILROY ARTS ALLIANCE | $18,936 |
| REBEKAH CHILDRENS SERVICES | $14,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $12,671 |
| COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $10,513 |
| GAVILAN COLLEGE | $8,048 |
| ST MARY SCHOOL | $7,882 |
| SOUTH VALLEY CIVIC THEATER | $6,755 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,750 |
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 (FY17–24, $70k) 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.
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.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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
- DNDIGITAL NEST INC2× · 2022–2024 · $644k · revenue +91%
- SCSOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $316k · revenue +33%
- GAGILROY ARTS ALLIANCE8× · 2017–2024 · $184k · revenue +4% · 76% of their budget
Funded once
- TNTHE NORTHERN TRUST COMPANYone grant, 2018 · $135k
- GMGUSD MUSIC PROGRAMSone grant, 2017 · $54k
- UFUNITED FRESH START ASSOCIATIOone grant, 2019 · $25k
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.
Resources and Community Advocacy. Serving low income youth and families in the community. Providing culturally competent and sensitivie programing based on based on the needs and resources available in Santa Clara County.
The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.
Provides resources and advocates for the needs of foster and adoptive families in santa clara county.
To ensure housing for all by uniting the community, forming partnerships, inspiring advocacy and providing service
To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.
To help solve the most challenging issues facing youth and families in northern california by providing tailored services from counseling and therapy to alternative placements with an end result of permanently connecting our young clients…
To provide safety, compassion, and respect as we educate, empower, and advocate for individuals, families, and young people.
Catholic charities of santa clara county serves and advocates for families and individuals in need, especially those living in poverty. rooted in gospel values, we work to create a more just and compassionate community in which people of…
Our mission is to build a community free from poverty by creating hope, opportunity, and action. we provide essential services, work together to improve our lives, organize for justice, and inspire our community to love, serve, and share.
Community human services is a nonprofit agency dedicated to providing high quality mental health, substance use and homeless services to monterey county residents to help them reach their full potantial.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Services and the most unlike its peers is Informed Choices. 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 72 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 DIGITAL NEST INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GILROY ARTS ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds GILROY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FREEDOM PAWS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS ↗
- Who funds Pitstop Outreach ↗
- Who funds ODD FELLOW- REBEKAH CHILDRENS HOME OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTH COUNTY COMPASSION CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNRAVEL ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Informed Choices ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC ↗
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 · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Valley Health Foundation (Vhf) · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Christopher Ranch Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Intero Foundation Inc · The Health Trust · The Family Giving Tree · Community Foundation for San Benito County
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 Gilroy 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.