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Junior League of Palo Alto - Mid Peninsula
To advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 5 grants below total $115,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $118,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $3,000 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
- $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HIP HOUSING | $50,000 |
| THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA | $25,000 |
| REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY | $15,000 |
| HOPE'S CORNER INC | $15,000 |
| CORA (COMMUNITY OVERCOMING RELATIONSHIP ABUSE) | $10,000 |
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 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% 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.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- AIART IN ACTION5× · 2019–2023 · $365k · revenue +14%
- RCREDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY8× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +12%
- LLIFEMOVES3× · 2017–2019 · $31k · revenue +186%
Funded once
- GDGIRLS DRIVING FOR A DIFFERENCE INCone grant, 2018 · $16k
- OLONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTERone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
- EPEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +35%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Live in Peace and the most unlike its peers is Art in Action. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 19 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 ART IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY ↗
- Who funds Human Investment Project Inc ↗
- Who funds THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
- Who funds EAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TECHNOVATION ↗
- Who funds Hopes Corner Inc ↗
- Who funds Canopy ↗
- Who funds CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds Rosalie Rendu Inc ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds LIVE IN PEACE ↗
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 · Atkinson Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · Monterra Community Fund · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Community Foundation of San Carlos
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 Junior League of Palo Alto - Mid Peninsula 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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