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Margoes Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$160k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$50k
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$665kYouth Development$260kCommunity Improvement$150kEmployment$85kReligion$60kHuman Services$45kHealth$40kInternational$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k3 grants · $110k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$40,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAGNOLIA GLOBAL ACADEMY FOR LEADERS$50,000
EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION$40,000
THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY$35,000
OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$35,000
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 (FY23–24, $70k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 57% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SCOPA HAS A DREAM: $30k → 9%EDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION: $40k → 14%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.

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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$820k · 10 repeat orgs$615k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +92% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
17

Total granted

$820k
$455k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
-15%

Still filing today

90%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $160k 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
EducationYouth DevelopmentEmploymentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • BI
    BRAVEN INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $150k · revenue +469%
  • COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +92%
  • BS
    BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY
    3× · 2021–2023 · $150k · revenue +85%

Funded once

  • BE
    BUILDING EXCELLENT SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • CF
    CAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY (GRADGEARS)
    one grant, 2017 · $50k
  • EW
    Empower Work Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $40k · revenue +96%

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
Berkeley Community Scholars Dba Berkeley Community Fund

Berkeley Community Scholars empowers Berkeley youth who face racial, economic, and other barriers to achieving their college dreams by providing a unique experience of scholarships, advising, mentoring, and a community of support.

Philanthropy
2
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
3
Bridge the Gap College Prep

The mission of Bridge the Gap is to provide comprehensive educational, social and emotional resources to underserved students in Marin City and Southern Marin. Our goal is to ensure that all students graduate high school, and achieve their…

Youth Development
4
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
5
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
6
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
7
10000 Degrees

10,000 degrees is a leading college success nonprofit in the san francisco bay area. we help students from low-income backgrounds gain access to and complete higher education to positively impact their communities and the world.…

Education
8
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
9
San Francisco University High School

At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.

Education
10
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
11
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
12
Challenge Success

Challenge Success partners with schools, families, and communities to embrace a broad definition of success and implement research-based strategies that promote student well-being and engagement with learning.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Silicon Valley and the most unlike its peers is Community Support Network. 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 23 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%13%5–10yr19%38%10–20yr18%29%20–35yr14%21%35–55yr12%0%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%15%5–10yr19%43%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr14%13%35–55yr12%0%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/28
the rest of the field
11%
3,816/33,608

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.

04the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 31 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
17/26
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY — $150,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEYBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School — $100,000 · EducationBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA R…CATALINO TAPIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATI — $60,000 · EducationCATALINO TAPIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATIMAGNOLIA GLOBAL ACADEMY FOR LEADERS — $50,000 · EducationMAGNOLIA GLOBAL ACADEMY FOR LEADERSRICHMOND PROMISE INC — $40,000 · EducationRICHMOND PROMISE INCTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $35,000 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUNDTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY — $35,000 · EducationTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE U…FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $15,000 · EducationBUILDING EXCELLENT SCHOOLS — $50,000 · OtherBUILDING EXCELLENT SCHOOLSCAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY (GRADGEARS) — $50,000 · OtherCAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORT…Community Support Network — $30,000 · OtherCommunity Support NetworkNational Center for Youth Law — $30,000 · OtherNational Center for Youth L…Meritus College Fund — $25,000 · OtherMeritus College FundSF CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC — $20,000 · OtherSF CONSERVATORY OF MUSICGENESYS WORKS — $15,000 · OtherOakes Children's Center — $15,000 · OtherWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS — $50,000 · OtherWATERSIDE WORKSHOPSCalifornia Clubhouse DBA Aspire House — $40,000 · OtherCalifornia Clubhouse DBA As…+2 more — $20,000 · Other+2 moreBRAVEN INC — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INCONEGOAL — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOALSEVEN TEPEES YOUTH PROGRAM — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentSEVEN TEPEES YOUTH…FIRST GRADUATE — $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentFIRST GRADUATECOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $150,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY I…Empower Work Inc — $40,000 · EmploymentSUMMER SEARCH — $30,000 · EmploymentEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Human ServicesSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG — $30,000 · Human ServicesCANAL ALLIANCE — $60,000 · Religion
Education$510,000Other$345,000Youth Development$230,000Philanthropy$150,000Employment$70,000Human Services$70,000Religion$60,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRAVEN INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY — $150,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBay Area Hybrid College Initiative DBA Rivet School — $100,000 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetCATALINO TAPIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATI — $60,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWATERSIDE WORKSHOPS — $50,000 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetMAGNOLIA GLOBAL ACADEMY FOR LEADERS — $50,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetRICHMOND PROMISE INC — $40,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetEmpower Work Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEDWARD CHARLES FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Clubhouse DBA Aspire House — $40,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $35,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY — $35,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG — $30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetONEGOAL — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEVEN TEPEES YOUTH PROGRAM — $30,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCommunity Support Network — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMeritus College Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFIRST GRADUATE — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSCHOLARMATCH INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetOakes Children's Center — $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMISSION GRADUATES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

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.

Bothin FoundationMarin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Quest FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Salesforce FoundationTides FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Crescent Porter Hale …Miranda Lux FoundationGolden State Communit…The William G Gilmore…
Bothin FoundationCA21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bothin Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Quest Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · Tides Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Crescent Porter Hale Foundation · Miranda Lux Foundation · Golden State Community Foundation · The William G Gilmore Foundation

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 Margoes 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 · 00%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 Margoes Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Margoes 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 31 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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