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Pelo Foundation at a glance

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Pelo Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$8k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$310kReligion$106kHuman Services$5kHealth$3kHousing & Shelter$2kAnimals$500
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$175k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
URBAN STREET ANGELS$3,000
CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION$2,500
COMPUTERS 2 KIDS$2,500
02The need
03

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 (FY18–18, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WALLA WALLA COMMUNITY HOSPICE: $1k → 13%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.

4%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16k · 3 repeat orgs$411k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +48% for those funded once.

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$16k
$411k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+48%

Still filing today

100%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’23’24
HealthReligionEducationHuman ServicesAnimalsOther
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

  • US
    URBAN STREET ANGELS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +18%
  • CO
    CLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +193%
  • C2
    COMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS
    2× · 2023–2024 · $5k · revenue +50%

Funded once

  • WS
    WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2017 · $300k
  • WW
    WALLA WALLA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · $100k
  • Y
    YMCA
    one grant, 2018 · $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
United Way of San Diego County

To spark breakthrough community action that elevates every child and family toward a brighter future.

Philanthropy
2
Hospice of the North Coast

Hospice of the north coast provides comprehensive, individualized care for the terminally ill and their families throughout north coast san diego county. our goal is to maintain dignity, comfort, and the highest quality of life.

Human Services
3
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
4
San Diego Habitat Conservancy

Acquire, manage and protect land in perpetuity that supports sensitive habitats and species, and to educate and inspire people and communities as stewards and advocates of their natural environment.

Arts & Culture
5
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
6
Destination Home Sv co Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Destination: home's mission is to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in santa clara county.

Housing & Shelter
7
Silicon Valley Defense Working Group Co

Silicon Valley Defense Group convenes experts in technology, investment, and government for discussions on how to better collaborate between the various groups. The comments and topics are then published on our website to help educate and…

Education
8
San Diego Kind Corporation

San diego kind corporation, a ca non profit organization, creates and develops housing and services for the low income elderly and also contributes to other low income senior service and housing projects.

Housing & Shelter
9
Hospice of South Texas Inc

Hospice care of terminally ill patients

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10
Community Hospital of the Monterey Peninsula

Community hospital of the monterey peninsula is dedicated to identifying and meeting the changing healthcare needs of the people of the monterey peninsula and surrounding communities.we are committed to providing high-quality services at a…

Health
11
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
12
South Coast Hospice & Palliative Ca

To provide care for the terminally ill that helps these individuals live their lives as fully as possible.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Urban Street Angels Inc; the most unlike its peers is San Diego Humane Society and Spca. 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

8 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. 8 of the 11 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)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITY: $300,020 · OtherWASHINGTON STATE UNIVERSITYWALLA WALLA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH: $100,000 · OtherWALLA WALLA PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH+2 more: $10,000 · OtherURBAN STREET ANGELS INC: $6,000 · ReligionST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $2,000 · ReligionCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS: $5,000 · EducationSecret Harbor: $1,000 · HealthTHE WHATCOM HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthWalla Walla Community Hospice: $1,000 · Human ServicesSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $500 · Animals
Other$410,020Religion$8,000Education$5,000Health$2,000Human Services$1,000Animals$500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetURBAN STREET ANGELS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCLASSROOM OF THE FUTURE FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCOMPUTERS 2 SD KIDS: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL VILLAGE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWalla Walla Community Hospice: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSecret Harbor: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WHATCOM HOSPICE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN DIEGO HUMANE SOCIETY AND SPCA: $500 over 1y, 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.

Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO6.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Pelo Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pelo 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%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    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.

    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 11 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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