· Private foundation
Leo M Shortino Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $2k
- $10k–50k47 grants · $1.4M
- $50k–250k15 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| LATINO EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION | $52,000 |
| 10000 DEGREES | $52,000 |
| ENVISIONEERS INC | $52,000 |
| DIOCESE OF SAN JOSE | $52,000 |
| PIVOTAL | $52,000 |
| BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $50,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Leo M Shortino Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 88%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against -16% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +573%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY8× · 2017–2024 · $703k · revenue +10%
- SOSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP8× · 2017–2024 · $590k · revenue +165%
Funded once
- VHVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue -16%
- CYCITY YEAR SAN JOSEone grant, 2017 · $75k
- KCKIWANIS CLUB FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSEone grant, 2017 · $75k
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.
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.
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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San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.
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.
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…
Provide in school programs that educate and inspire young people to value free enterprise, understand business, economics and improve the quality of their lives.
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…
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…
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…
Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.
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…
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.
How this is measured
77 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. 77 of the 135 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE TUTORING INC ↗
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Leo M Shortino Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leo M Shortino Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Citizen Schools Inc: 8% of income from government
How this is measured
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