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Leo M Shortino Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
65
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$190k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$9.4MArts & Culture$2.9MHuman Services$2.5MYouth Development$2.0MHealth$1.2MCrime & Legal$587kReligion$546kCommunity Improvement$398kOther$0
02FY2024 · 65 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k47 grants · $1.4M
  • $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
$35,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRANKLIN - MCKINLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT$190,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY$126,000
SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE$102,000
YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY$97,000
KIWANIS CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION$80,000
CITY YEAR SAN JOSE SILICON VALLEY$60,000
CRISTO REY SAN JOSE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$56,000
VIA SERVICES INC$53,000
SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP$53,000
DIOCESE OF SAN JOSE$52,000
10000 DEGREES$52,000
PIVOTAL$52,000
LATINO EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION$52,000
ENVISIONEERS INC$52,000
BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $105k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 22%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $75k → 22%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $100k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $90k → 8%YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $80k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $80k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $80k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $80k → 8%AMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT: $100k → 8%AMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT: $38k → 8%ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER: $36k → 8%ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER: $36k → 8%AMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT: $33k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $97k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $95k → 8%UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES: $70k → 8%PACIFIC CLINICS: $36k → 8%UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 8%UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 8%UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 8%UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES: $35k → 8%PACIFIC CLINICS: $35k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $42k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $42k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $41k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $35k → 8%PACIFIC CLINICS: $36k → 8%YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $38k → 8%YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $36k → 8%YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $36k → 8%ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER: $35k → 8%ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER: $35k → 8%YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $35k → 8%ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER: $35k → 8%ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER: $35k → 8%ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER: $35k → 8%AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $33k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $61k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICES: $48k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $45k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $43k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $42k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $42k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $35k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Leo M Shortino Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Leo M Shortino Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$19M · 85 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against -16% for the ones you funded once.

85 repeat relationships — 59 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

85
47

Total granted

$19M
$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
-16%

Still filing today

73%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +573%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $703k · revenue +10%
  • SO
    SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP
    8× · 2017–2024 · $590k · revenue +165%

Funded once

  • VH
    VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue -16%
  • CY
    CITY YEAR SAN JOSE
    one grant, 2017 · $75k
  • KC
    KIWANIS CLUB FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE
    one grant, 2017 · $75k

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

04Your field

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.

1
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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2
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
3
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
4
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
5
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
6
Junior Achievement of Sacramento Inc

Provide in school programs that educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business, economics and improve the quality of their lives.

International
7
Elite Public Schools

To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…

Education
8
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
9
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
10
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
11
Tomorrow's Leadership Collaborative Charter School

The mission of tlc is to educate diverse students through a rigorous, standards-based, collegepreparatory program to become conscientious, caring, and responsible 21st century citizens. tlc is grounded in an inclusive vision of teaching…

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12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Silicon Valley and the most unlike its peers is Just Read. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr15%25%35–55yr11%23%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr11%32%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/85
the rest of the field
10%
1,498/14,277

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 135 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/77
Grantees still filing
53/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Franklin-McKinley School District — $1,261,785 · OtherFranklin-McKinley School DistrictHOLY FAMILY — $504,000 · OtherHOLY FAMILYCITY YEAR INC — $502,500 · OtherCITY YEAR INCPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $454,000 · OtherPIVOTAL CONNECTIONSBELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY — $349,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATER — $328,000 · OtherPRESENTATION HIGH SCHOOL SAN JOSE — $315,000 · OtherSan Jose Jazz — $292,000 · OtherKIWANIS CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION INC — $480,000 · OtherKIWANIS CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION INC+65 more — $3,718,344 · Other+65 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $702,836 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTI…SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $580,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABO…SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE — $458,082 · Human ServicesSACRED HEART COMMUN…PACIFIC CLINICS — $317,000 · Human ServicesPACIFIC CLINICSAMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND ENPOWERMENT — $306,000 · Human ServicesAMIGOS DE GUADALUPE…ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER INC — $278,600 · Human ServicesALUM ROCK COUNSELIN…CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $258,253 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES …YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY — $184,500 · Human ServicesYWCA GOLDEN GATE SI…AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY — $162,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC — $162,000 · Human Services+1 more — $15,000 · Human ServicesCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL — $511,328 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN JO…ACE CHARTER SCHOOL — $457,000 · EducationACE CHARTER SCHOO…CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC — $250,000 · EducationCITIZEN SCHOOLS I…SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL — $212,000 · EducationSACRED HEART NATI…BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY — $201,600 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH SILI…Jose Valdes Math Foundation — $189,000 · EducationJose Valdes Math …Silicon Valley Urban Debate League — $180,100 · EducationSilicon Valley Ur…The Peninsula College Fund — $172,100 · EducationThe Peninsula Col…LATINO EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION — $154,000 · Education10000 DEGREES — $154,000 · EducationENVISIONEERS INC — $154,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS — $135,000 · Education+6 more — $377,500 · Education+6 moreSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $589,500 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF AR…MOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED — $235,100 · Arts & CultureMOVIMIENTO D…THE TECH INTERACTIVE — $207,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INT…SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION — $201,500 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE MUS…ART IN ACTION — $200,100 · Arts & CultureART IN ACTIO…COMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS — $162,000 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY SC…MUSIC FOR MINORS INC — $162,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC FOR MI…SAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $131,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE CHI…+7 more — $295,200 · Arts & Culture+7 moreBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $1,026,451 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND …FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $257,100 · Youth DevelopmentFRESH LIF…ELEVATE TUTORING INC — $207,000 · Youth DevelopmentELEVATE T…GIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $152,000 · Youth DevelopmentGIRL SCOU…+3 more — $113,000 · Youth Development+3 moreTHIRD STREET COMMUNITY CENTER — $383,000 · Community ImprovementSOMOS MAYFAIR INC — $253,100 · Community ImprovementSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $236,500 · Community Improvement+1 more — $15,000 · Community ImprovementVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC — $408,000 · HealthCHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL — $137,500 · HealthHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $125,100 · HealthVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $80,000 · HealthACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE — $35,000 · Health+1 more — $25,000 · Health
Other$8,204,629Human Services$3,424,271Education$3,147,628Arts & Culture$2,183,400Youth Development$1,755,551Community Improvement$887,600Health$810,600

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $1,026,451 over 8y, 4.6% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $702,836 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $589,500 over 8y, 4.1% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $580,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL — $511,328 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCITY YEAR INC — $502,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION INC — $480,000 over 6y, 47% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE — $458,082 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetACE CHARTER SCHOOL — $457,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $454,000 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC — $408,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetTHIRD STREET COMMUNITY CENTER — $383,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS — $317,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetAMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND ENPOWERMENT — $306,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetSan Jose Jazz — $292,000 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER INC — $278,600 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $258,253 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $257,100 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetSOMOS MAYFAIR INC — $253,100 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetCITIZEN SCHOOLS INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $236,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED — $235,100 over 8y, 7.7% of budgetSACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL — $212,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetELEVATE TUTORING INC — $207,000 over 8y, 24% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE — $207,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSan Jose Grail Family Services — $204,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY — $201,600 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION — $201,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetART IN ACTION — $200,100 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetCENTER FOR TRAINING & CAREERS INC — $200,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetJose Valdes Math Foundation — $189,000 over 7y, 7.8% of budgetYWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY — $184,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSilicon Valley Urban Debate League — $180,100 over 7y, 8.4% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $179,100 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetThe Peninsula College Fund — $172,100 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY — $162,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC — $162,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS — $162,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGuadalupe River Park Conservancy — $162,000 over 7y, 6.6% of budgetMUSIC FOR MINORS INC — $162,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetLATINO EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION — $154,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budget10000 DEGREES — $154,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetENVISIONEERS INC — $154,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $152,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL — $137,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $135,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $131,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $125,100 over 3y, 0.7% of budget
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 BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CITY YEAR INC ↗
  • Who funds KIWANIS CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds ACE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS ↗
  • Who funds VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD STREET COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
  • Who funds AMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND ENPOWERMENT ↗
  • Who funds San Jose Jazz ↗
  • Who funds ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds SOMOS MAYFAIR INC ↗
  • Who funds CITIZEN SCHOOLS INC ↗
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds ELEVATE TUTORING INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
  • Who funds San Jose Grail Family Services ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ART IN ACTION ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR TRAINING & CAREERS INC ↗
  • Who funds Jose Valdes Math Foundation ↗
  • Who funds YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY ↗

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.

The Applied Materials…The David and Lucile …Silicon Valley Commun…The Sobrato Family Fo…Los Altos Mountain Vi…Rotary Club of San Jo…San Jose Mercury News…Castellano Family Fou…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Bright Funds Foundati…Atkinson FoundationSilicon Valley Creates
The Applied Materials FoundationCA77.8× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Applied Materials Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Castellano Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Bright Funds Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Silicon Valley Creates

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 Leo M Shortino Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Citizen Schools Inc — 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Leo M Shortino Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Leo M Shortino Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 135 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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