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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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 NORTH CENTRAL STATES$15,000
FOOTSTEPS INC$15,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS$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
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY SAN BERNADINO$10,000
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO FOUNDATION INC$10,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC$10,000
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 (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 its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
CA
CO
VA
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
AL
GA
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.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +1% for those 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
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

  • AP
    ARTBRIDGE PROJECTS INC
    4× · 2017–2025 · $140k · revenue +826%
  • PRO PUBLICA INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $140k · revenue +48%
  • 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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; 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.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 40 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
20/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EducationARTBRIDGE PROJECTS INC: $140,000 · Arts & CultureARTBRIDGE PROJEC…PRO PUBLICA INC: $140,000 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLICA INCMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $55,000 · OtherMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCOR…HILLEL - THE RIGHT TO CHOOSE: $48,000 · OtherHILLEL - THE RIGHT TO CHOO…LuMind IDSC Foundation: $30,000 · OtherLuMind IDSC FoundationCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY: $30,000 · OtherCOLORADO STATE UNIVERSITYTHE 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 GREAT PLAINS: $45,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetULTIMATE PEACE INC: $365,000 over 7y, 42% of budgetARTBRIDGE PROJECTS INC: $140,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $140,000 over 4y, 0.2% 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 budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREAT PLAINS: $45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTH CENTRAL STATES: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATIONS OF NORTH AMERICA INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJ STREET EDUCATION FUND INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJQY: $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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 budgetInternet Archive: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIAS INC: $10,000 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.

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

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 Pinion Street Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Pinion Street Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%13%28%50%funder's 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
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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 40 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home