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Innovart Foundation

WORKING FOR THE WELL-BEING AND BETTER-BEING OF YOUTH.

$6k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$16kArts & Culture$5kPhilanthropy$3kHealth$2kHuman Services$2kInternational$1kYouth Development$978
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$213k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tower Foundation of SJSU$3,000
Cogleap Foundation$2,000
SVA Alumni Society$1,000
Wikimedia Foundation$25
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation: $2k → 8%Enpowering the Fatherless: $75 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$17k · 5 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
10

Total granted

$17k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
0%

Still filing today

80%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • PA
    PALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $12k · revenue +6%
  • SA
    SVA ALUMNI SOCIETY INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +51%
  • TF
    THE FAMILY GIVING TREE
    2× · 2020–2021 · $112 · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • SH
    SARATOGA HIGH SCHOOL WELLNESS CENTER
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • SR
    SARATOGA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -35%
  • TI
    TRUST IN EDUCATION
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue -39%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
2
Shanghai Jiao Tong University Foundation of America (Sjtufa)
Education
3
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
4
The University Foundation At Sacramento State

Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…

Education
5
Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…

Education
6
The University Corporation San Francisco State

The purpose of the university corporation is to promote, assist, and enhance the educational mission of san francisco state university through educational projects, university research and development projects, and community outreach.

Education
7
The Academy of Art University Foundation
Human Services
8
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
9
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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10
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
11
Califonia State University East Bay Foundation Inc

Csu east bay foundation is an auxiliary organization of california state university east bay and the california state university system. the organization's mission is to provide services that aid, supplement, and advance the educational…

Education
12
Institute for Student Achievement Foundation

Institute for student achievement foundation (isaf) raises funds to support the institute for student achievement (isa), which is a part of educational testing service, a section 501(c)(3) public charity, that wants all students,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Tower Foundation of San Jose State University; the most unlike its peers is Palo Alto University Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 · EducationPALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INCTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 · EducationTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITYSARATOGA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $800 · Education+1 more: $66 · EducationMiller Middle School Drama Program: $3,213 · OtherMiller Middle School Drama ProgramCogleap Foundation: $2,000 · OtherCogleap FoundationSARATOGA HIGH SCHOOL WELLNESS CENTER: $1,900 · OtherSARATOGA HIGH SCHOOL WELLNESS CENTE…Saratoga High School Presidential Volunteer Service Award: $800 · OtherSaratoga High School Presidential V…ASIAN AMERICAN YOUTH ASSOCIATION: $600 · OtherASIAN AMERICAN YOUTH ASSOCIATIONSaratoga High School Speechdebate Progarm: $600 · OtherSaratoga High School Speechdebate P…CP Mentoring for Teens Program: $378 · Other+1 more: $112 · OtherSVA ALUMNI SOCIETY INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureSARATOGA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,500 · Human ServicesEMPOWERING THE FATHERLESS INC: $75 · Human ServicesTRUST IN EDUCATION: $1,200 · InternationalHONGYUN ART FOUNDATION: $189 · Youth Development
Education$15,866Other$9,603Arts & Culture$2,000Human Services$1,575International$1,200Youth Development$189

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPALO ALTO UNIVERSITY INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSVA ALUMNI SOCIETY INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSARATOGA ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTRUST IN EDUCATION: $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSARATOGA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHONGYUN ART FOUNDATION: $189 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE FAMILY GIVING TREE: $112 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $66 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE8.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Innovart Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Innovart Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Innovart Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Innovart 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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