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Junior League of San Jose

The JUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN JOSE is an organization of women whose mission is to advance women's leadership for meaningful community impact through volunteer action, collaboration, and training.

$18k
Granted FY2025still arriving
1
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Education$116kHuman Services$98kYouth Development$21kHealth$10kCivil Rights$6k
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 1 grants below total $15,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $18,000 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.
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BILL WILSON CENTER$15,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $106k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%UNITY CARE: $10k → 8%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $15k → 10%Good Karma Bikes: $8k → 8%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 10%BILL WILSON CENTER: $6k → 8%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $10k → 10%RAZING THE BAR: $8k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $15k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $10k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $9k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $6k → 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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$171k · 3 repeat orgs$79k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$171k
$79k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+55%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’24’25
Human ServicesEducationCivil RightsHealthOther
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

  • PC
    PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS
    6× · 2017–2022 · $91k · revenue +28%
  • BW
    BILL WILSON CENTER
    5× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +120%
  • FP
    FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH
    3× · 2018–2021 · $35k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • RA
    RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHINGgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +94%
  • HK
    HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • TU
    THE UNITY CARE GROUP
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -5%
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
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
2
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
3
Dependency Advocacy Center

Dependency advocacy center (dac) provides zealous legal representation to indigent clients in the juvenile dependency system to promote timely reunification and preservation of families in a safe, healthy environment. dac believes that…

Crime & Legal
4
Achievekids

Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…

Education
5
Alliance for Children's Rights

The alliance has improved the lives of more than 178,000 young clients with stability through adoption and legal guardianship, and with access to healthcare, education, and other critical supports, serving over 5,600 children and young…

Unclassified
6
Sacramento Children's Home

At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.

Human Services
7
Community Youth Center of San Francisco

Our mission is to encourage a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life. Every year, CYC impacts over 8,000 San Francisco youth and their families,…

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8
Stanford Youth Solutions dba Stanford Sierra Youth & 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…

Human Services
9
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
10
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
11
Youth for Change

Youth For Change (YFC) mission is to enhance the well being of children, families, individuals, and communities.

Human Services
12
The Anti-Recidivism Coalition

The anti-recidivism coalition (arc) works to end mass incarceration in california. to ensure our communities are safe, healthy, and whole, arc empowers formerly and currently incarcerated people to thrive by providing a support network,…

Crime & Legal
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bill Wilson Center; the most unlike its peers is Good Karma Bikes 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

11 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BILL WILSON CENTER: $45,000 · Human ServicesBILL WILSON CENTERFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $35,000 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTHTHE UNITY CARE GROUP: $10,000 · Human ServicesTHE UNITY CARE GROUPGOOD KARMA BIKES INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesGOOD KARMA BIKES INCRAZING THE BAR: $7,500 · Human ServicesRAZING THE BARPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $91,000 · OtherPIVOTAL CONNECTIONSEDUCARE FOUNDATION: $8,000 · OtherEDUCARE FOUNDATIONKids In Common: $5,000 · OtherRESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING: $25,000 · EducationRESOURCE AR…HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $5,500 · Civil Rights
Human Services$105,500Other$104,000Education$25,000Health$10,000Civil Rights$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $91,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBILL WILSON CENTER: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING: $25,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE UNITY CARE GROUP: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCARE FOUNDATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGOOD KARMA BIKES INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetRAZING THE BAR: $7,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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…Farrington Historical…San Jose Mercury News…The Sobrato Family Fo…The David and Lucile …Excite Credit Union (…Rotary Club of San Jo…Gordon E and Betty I …Star One Credit UnionDestination Home SV c…Kla FoundationTipping Point Communi…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA20.6× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Excite Credit Union (Fka Alliance Credit Union) · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Star One Credit Union · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kla Foundation · Tipping Point Community

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 San Jose funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Junior League of San Jose. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    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 11 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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