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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.

$118k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$420kEducation$163kHousing & Shelter$109kHealth$70kYouth Development$42kEmployment$31kHuman Services$23kFood & Nutrition$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $115,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $118,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $3,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $65k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HIP HOUSING$50,000
THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA$25,000
HOPE'S CORNER INC$15,000
REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY$15,000
CORA (COMMUNITY OVERCOMING RELATIONSHIP ABUSE)$10,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY: $34k → 7%HOPE'S CORNER INC: $15k → 8%IRIDESCENT TECHNOVATION: $15k → 14%THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA: $30k → 7%EAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION: $15k → 8%THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA: $25k → 7%CANOPY: $10k → 8%REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 7%ROSALIE RENDU CENTER: $8k → 8%REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 7%LIVE IN PEACE INC: $5k → 8%REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 7%SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY: $8k → 8%REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 7%THE TECH MUSEUM: $25k → 8%REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 7%THE TECH MUSEUM OF INNOVATION: $15k → 8%REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 7%THE TECH MUSEUM: $15k → 8%REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY: $15k → 7%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAYSILICON VALLEY: $9k → 8%HIP HOUSING: $50k → 7%GIRLS DRIVING FOR A DIFFERENCE INC: $16k → 8%HIP HOUSING: $50k → 7%ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER: $15k → 7%ART IN ACTION: $95k → 7%ART IN ACTION: $85k → 7%ART IN ACTION: $85k → 7%ART IN ACTION: $85k → 7%ART IN ACTION: $15k → 7%LIFEMOVES: $12k → 7%LIFEMOVES: $10k → 7%LIFEMOVES: $9k → 7%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA: $6k → 7%CORA (COMMUNITY OVERCOMING RELATIONSHIP ABUSE): $10k → 7%SAMARITAN HOUSE OF SAN MATEO: $5k → 7%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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$745k · 6 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

$745k
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+53%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 & CultureHousing & ShelterEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentScience & TechOther
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

  • AI
    ART IN ACTION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $365k · revenue +14%
  • RC
    REDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +12%
  • L
    LIFEMOVES
    3× · 2017–2019 · $31k · revenue +186%

Funded once

  • GD
    GIRLS DRIVING FOR A DIFFERENCE INC
    one grant, 2018 · $16k
  • OL
    ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue 0%
  • T
    TECHNOVATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +61%
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
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc

To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.

Crime & Legal
2
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
3
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
4
San Francisco Housing Action Coalition

Promote public understanding of policies supporting the creation of well-designed, well-located housing at all levels of affordability for residents of the Bay Area, California.

Housing & Shelter
5
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
6
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center

SVILC builds disability identity, culture, pride, creating opportunities for personal and community transformation, and partnering with others to ensure that civil and human rights are protected.

Human Services
7
Community Action Marin

We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.

Human Services
8
Institute for Human & Social Development

Institute for Human and Social Development provides excellent comprehensive child development and family support services through center based family child care and home visiting to the highest need children of 0-5 years old and their…

Education
9
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
10
Housing Trust Silicon Valley

Our mission at housing trust silicon valley, is to use transformative housing finance and public and private partnerships to create more equitable and affordable communities.

Housing & Shelter
11
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
12
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Live in Peace; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 19 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ART IN ACTION: $365,078 · Arts & CultureART IN ACTIONTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $55,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTERACTIVEREDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY: $139,597 · EducationREDWOOD CITY FRIEN…SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC: $8,400 · EducationSCIENCE IS ELEMENT…Human Investment Project Inc: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterHuman Investm…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY: $9,102 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR H…LIFEMOVES: $30,773 · OtherLIFEMOVESGIRLS DRIVING FOR A DIFFERENCE INC: $16,350 · OtherGIRLS DRIVING…CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse: $10,000 · OtherCORA Communit…Rosalie Rendu Inc: $8,112 · OtherRosalie Rendu…SAMARITAN HOUSE: $5,000 · OtherEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 · OtherEAST PALO ALT…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $6,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS …LIVE IN PEACE: $5,000 · OtherCanopy: $10,000 · OtherCanopyTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA: $55,000 · HealthONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER: $15,000 · HealthHopes Corner Inc: $15,000 · Food & NutritionTECHNOVATION: $15,000 · Science & Tech
Arts & Culture$420,078Education$147,997Housing & Shelter$109,102Other$106,235Health$70,000Food & Nutrition$15,000Science & Tech$15,000

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 budgetART IN ACTION: $365,078 over 5y, 11% of budgetREDWOOD CITY FRIENDS OF LITERACY: $139,597 over 8y, 13% of budgetHuman Investment Project Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA: $55,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $55,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $30,773 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER: $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTECHNOVATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCanopy: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY: $9,102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC: $8,400 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVE IN PEACE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Atkinson FoundationThe Palo Alto Communi…Los Altos Mountain Vi…The San Francisco Fou…The Sobrato Family Fo…Philanthropic Venture…Gordon E and Betty I …Second Harvest of Sil…Monterra Community Fu…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Community Foundation …
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA27.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Junior League of Palo Alto - Mid Peninsula funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Junior League of Palo Alto - Mid Peninsula. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
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    How do I get to Junior League of Palo Alto - Mid Peninsula?

    Find your warmest path to Junior League of Palo Alto - Mid Peninsula 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 19 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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