· Public charity
Palo Alto Rotary Club Annual Charities Inc
Raise money for, and to distribute money to carefully qualified recipients.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $55,700 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $171,395 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $115,695 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DREAM CATCHERS | $10,000 |
| ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES | $10,000 |
| HEART AND HOME COLLABORATIVE | $10,000 |
| EAST PALO ALTO SENIOR CENTER | $7,300 |
| COUNSELING & SUPPORT FOR CHILDREN | $6,400 |
| JOB TRAIN | $6,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL VOLUNTEERS | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those 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.
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.
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.
San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
To provide transformative legal services that enable diverse communities in East Palo Alto and beyond to achieve a secure and thriving future.
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
HAC assists homeless and mentally ill clients in the long and difficult process of becoming eligible for SSI and MediCal benefits. HAC provides assistance with other public benefits that clients need in the interim to survive until their…
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
The mission of Alzheimer's Services of the East Bay is to provide services to individuals with Alzheimer's disease and other related dementia; provide support for their caregivers; and educate and inform the general community about issues…
Working Partnerships USA is a community organization bringing together the power of grassroots organizing and public policy innovation to drive the movement for a just economy. We build the capacity of workers, low-income neighborhoods and…
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.
By strategically linking people, practice and policy, we make sure that children and youth in the most under-resourced communities receive quality expanded learning opportunities and that all their learning environments school, afterschool…
Family Connections is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993 that strengthens families and builds resilient communities in San Mateo County. The organization provides evidence-based, family-centered programs that support parents and…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Heart and Home Collaborative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 20 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 EAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WEHOPE ↗
- Who funds HEART AND HOME COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO COMMUNITY CHILD CARE ↗
- Who funds Dream Catchers Inc ↗
- Who funds ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD CLASSROOM PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds Ada's Cafe ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA HEALTHCARE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Urban Debate League ↗
- Who funds EAST PALO ALTO SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds YOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Streets Inc ↗
- Who funds Canopy ↗
- Who funds COUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto ↗
- Who funds JOBTRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds Environmental Volunteers 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 Palo Alto Community Fund · Embarcadero Media Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation · Robert & Elizabeth Fergus 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 Palo Alto Rotary Club Annual Charities Inc 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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