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Marti & Steve Diamond Charitable Foundation at a glance

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Marti & Steve Diamond Charitable 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.

$261k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$256k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

98% of Marti & Steve Diamond Charitable Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation For Monterey County, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

4
’19
6
’20
3
’21
1
’22
2
’23
1
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Philanthropy$1.5MFood & Nutrition$25kArts & Culture$18kInternational$16kEducation$14kScience & Tech$10kRecreation & Sports$6kHealth$5kOther$0
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $5k
  • $250k+1 grant · $256k
$4,175
Median grant
2
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMMUNITY FDN FOR MONTEREY COUNTY$256,000
DOWNTOWN OAKLAND ASSOCIATION$4,175
JSMF$406
02The need
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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 (FY20–23, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Young Mens Christian Association: $500 → 10%Young Mens Christian Association: $500 → 10%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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44k · 6 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
12

Total granted

$44k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+17%

Still filing today

83%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationFood & NutritionInternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CS
    CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $25k · revenue +12%
  • SF
    ST FRANCIS SAILING FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +2%
  • 1D
    10000 DEGREES
    2× · 2019–2020 · $4k · revenue +101%

Funded once

  • PR
    Pacific Research Institute for Public
    one grant, 2020 · $10k
  • MM
    MONTEREY MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $7k · revenue +32%
  • SO
    SCHOOLS OF THE SACRED HEART-SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2021 · $5k
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
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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4
Museum of Sonoma County

The museum of sonoma county engages and inspires our diverse community with art and history exhibitions, collections, and public programs that are inclusive, educational, and relevant.

Arts & Culture
5
California College of the Arts

California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…

Education
6
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
7
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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8
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
9
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
10
Fine Arts Museums Foundation

The specific and primary purposes for which this foundation is formed are the charitable and educational purposes of soliciting, receiving, disbursing and managing funds and property for the embellishment, advancement, administration and…

Arts & Culture
11
Marin Open Studios

Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…

Arts & Culture
12
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation for Monterey County; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 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

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 22 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $1,538,968 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTYPacific Research Institute for Public: $10,000 · OtherST FRANCIS SAILING FOUNDATION: $6,200 · OtherSCHOOLS OF THE SACRED HEART-SAN FRANCISCO: $5,000 · OtherCholesterol Genetics and Heart: $5,000 · OtherSchools of the Scred Heart: $4,000 · OtherCatholic Charities of the Archdiocese: $2,600 · OtherSan Franciso Museum of Modern Art: $2,500 · OtherThe Diocese of Monterey Parish &: $2,000 · Other+2 more: $1,406 · OtherCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $25,000 · Food & NutritionGIVE2ASIA: $15,000 · InternationalNEPAL SEEDS: $1,000 · InternationalMONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART: $6,500 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $5,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $2,500 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $1,500 · Arts & Culture10000 DEGREES: $4,000 · EducationNorthern Light School: $1,000 · EducationDOWNTOWN OAKLAND ASSOCIATION: $4,175 · Community ImprovementYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 · Human Services
Philanthropy$1,538,968Other$38,706Food & Nutrition$25,000International$16,000Arts & Culture$15,500Education$5,000Community Improvement$4,175Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR MONTEREY COUNTY: $1,538,968 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND: $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY MUSEUM OF ART: $6,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST FRANCIS SAILING FOUNDATION: $6,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOWNTOWN OAKLAND ASSOCIATION: $4,175 over 1y, 0.1% of budget10000 DEGREES: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Light School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Marin Community Found…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Marin Community FoundationCA13.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Marti & Steve Diamond Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marti & Steve Diamond Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%6%13%19%25%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–25%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Marti & Steve Diamond Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Marti & Steve Diamond Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 22 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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