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Marchese Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $162k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $174k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $108,611 |
| SAINT FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL | $65,301 |
| LITTLE ITALY SAN JOSE FOUNDATION | $47,408 |
| NOTABLE MUSIC ARTS ORGANIZATION | $46,137 |
| SAN JOSE POLICE DEPARTMENT | $33,372 |
| SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL | $22,741 |
| SACRED HEART PARISH | $12,000 |
| LOAVES AND FISHES | $7,500 |
| SAINTE CLAIRE HISTORIC PRESERVATION | $5,000 |
| VALLE MONTE LEAGUE INC | $3,300 |
| LRCC WILDCAT FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SISTERS DISCIPLES OF THE DIVINE MAS | $1,000 |
| CHILDREN'S MUSICAL THEATER SAN JOSE | $500 |
| LUCILE PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $500 |
| LOS GATOS POLICE OFFICERS ASSOCIATI | $500 |
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 (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 6 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE5× · 2019–2024 · $302k · revenue +20%
- CPChinese Performing Arts of America2× · 2021–2023 · $105k · revenue +81% · 42% of their budget
- LILITTLE ITALY SAN JOSE FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · $102k · revenue +157% · 25% of their budget
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $14k
- PRPERSIAN RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2023 · $6k
- VMVETERANS MEMORIAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
We, saint agnes medical center and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint agnes medical center is a member of trinity health.
As an integral member of the san jose state university community, the san jose state university research foundation provides an entrepreneurial framework through which local, state and federal agencies, businesses and private foundations…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: Caring for our patients first and our people always. VISION: To be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The purpose of this organization is to foster a culture of catholic stewardship, providing a platform where people can connect, learn, and actively contribute to the well being of our society through catholic principles. the mission of the…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Britt George Foundation. 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 44 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
28 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. 28 of the 73 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 PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Chinese Performing Arts of America ↗
- Who funds LITTLE ITALY SAN JOSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRITT GEORGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAINTE CLAIRE HISTORIC PRESERVATION FOUN ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds MORGAN AUTISM CENTER ↗
- Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF SAN JOSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VALLE MONTE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds San Lorenzo Valley Girls Softball ↗
- Who funds Italian American Heritage Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds LRCC WILDCAT FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: The Brandenburg Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Matt & Gretchen Dinapoli Family Foundation · Kieve Foundation · The Kirkorian Family Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Gift Fund · Steven L Hallgrimson Foundation Inc · Hugh Stuart Center Charitable Trust · Mission City Community Fund
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 Marchese 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.
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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