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Pinion Street Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational, or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of, the jewish community federation of san francisco, the peninsula, marin and sonoma counties.

$331k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
11
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 FY2017–2025.

Youth Development$399kArts & Culture$350kEducation$270kHealth$235kCivil Rights$235kPhilanthropy$136kHuman Services$95kInternational$85kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $6k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $275k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$12,000
Median grant
11
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTBRIDGE PROJECTS INC$50,000
ULTIMATE PEACE INC$45,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$30,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS$15,000
FOOTSTEPS INC$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES$15,000
LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES$14,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO$14,000
HILLEL - THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE$13,000
CASA - CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL$12,000
CANAL ALLIANCE$12,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC$10,000
INTERNET ARCHIVE$10,000
HIAS INC$10,000
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY$10,000
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 (FY24–25, $44k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%INTERNET ARCHIVE: $10k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $20k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $14k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 21 repeat orgs$336k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
9

Total granted

$1.5M
$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+1%

Still filing today

90%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationInternationalHealthCivil RightsHuman ServicesArts & CultureOther

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

  • PRO PUBLICA INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $140k · revenue +48%
  • AP
    ARTBRIDGE PROJECTS INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +327%
  • AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $115k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • TL
    THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -63%
  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2024 · $55k
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -54%

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
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
4
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
University Family Physicians Inc

Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…

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9
People Inc

People inc. provides health and human services that enrich lives and communities through innovation and supportive services. with a goal to help people achieve greater independence and quality of life, people inc. provides day,…

Human Services
10
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
12
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Internet Archive. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity FoundationsJewish Community Organizati…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Lgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity Arts CentersCommunity College Foundatio…Policy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%13%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%38%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%49%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%10%35–55yr16%32%55yr+

The field is 22% 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 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/40
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,525

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

37 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. 37 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
22/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ULTIMATE PEACE INC — $365,000 · InternationalULTIMATE PEACE INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $45,000 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $25,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $25,000 · International+2 more — $20,000 · InternationalUNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION AT CSUSB — $80,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY ENTER…INVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE — $60,000 · EducationINVESTIGATIVE NE…WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDA…UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF NE…Spelman College — $40,000 · EducationSpelman CollegeARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 · EducationNew York University — $10,000 · EducationPRO PUBLICA INC — $140,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INCARTBRIDGE PROJECTS INC — $140,000 · Arts & CultureARTBRIDGE PROJEC…MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED — $55,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCOR…HILLEL - THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE — $48,000 · OtherHILLEL - THE RIGHT TO CHOO…COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY — $30,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYLuMind IDSC Foundation — $30,000 · OtherLuMind IDSC FoundationTHE SENTENCING PROJECT — $15,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $76,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATIO…THE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $25,000 · OtherTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF …PEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $15,000 · OtherTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $100,000 · OtherTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE …J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $20,000 · Other+3 more — $36,000 · Other+3 moreAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $115,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN …CALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION — $32,000 · Civil RightsCALIFORNI…NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $20,000 · Civil RightsNAACP LEG…PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES — $45,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS — $45,000 · HealthJQY — $20,000 · HealthROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $15,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $15,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 · HealthFOOTSTEPS INC — $95,000 · Human ServicesLarkin Street Youth Services — $34,000 · Human ServicesInternet Archive — $10,000 · Human Services
International$480,000Education$290,000Arts & Culture$280,000Other$450,000Civil Rights$167,000Health$150,000Human Services$139,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetULTIMATE PEACE INC — $365,000 over 7y, 42% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC — $140,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetARTBRIDGE PROJECTS INC — $140,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $115,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFOOTSTEPS INC — $95,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY ENTERPRISES CORPORATION AT CSUSB — $80,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $76,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINVESTIGATIVE NEWSOURCE — $60,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS — $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSpelman College — $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLarkin Street Youth Services — $34,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION — $32,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLuMind IDSC Foundation — $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJQY — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPEF ISRAEL ENDOWMENT FUNDS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN PLANNED PARENTHOOD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SENTENCING PROJECT — $15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPlanned Parenthood of Illinois — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO — $14,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANAL ALLIANCE — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINA FOR KIBERA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA HUNTSVILLE FOUNDATION — $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.

The Porphyry Road Fou…Jewish Community Foun…Morgan Stanley Global…American Endowment Fo…Paypal Charitable Giv…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Porphyry Road FoundationCO15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Porphyry Road Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Pinion Street 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%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 88%
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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 Pinion Street Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Pinion Street 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 40 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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