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Pleasant Hill Rotary Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$30k
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fund
0193% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$98kFood & Nutrition$74kInternational$41kHuman Services$30kPhilanthropy$26kHealth$18kRecreation & Sports$14kArts & Culture$12kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$425k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$2,000
PLEASANT HILL CIVIC ACTION$1,500
PLEASANT HILL REC AND PARK DIST$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,000
CCCOE TEACHER OF THE YEAR$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
PH CHAMBER OF COM - ART WINE$1,000
YOUTH HOMES$1,000
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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Shelter Box Inc: $1k → 14%Shelter Box Inc: $1k → 10%MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER: $12k → 9%YOUTH HOMES: $1k → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $600 → 9%Monument Crisis Center: $500 → 9%White Pony Express: $51k → 9%Youth Homes: $3k → 9%YOUTH HOMES: $3k → 9%YOUTH HOMES: $2k → 9%Youth Homes: $1k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $1k → 9%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $1k → 9%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.

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$246k · 26 repeat orgs$123k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +95% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
56

Total granted

$246k
$98k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+95%
+36%

Still filing today

35%
11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
Human ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEducationPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • WP
    WHITE PONY EXPRESS
    3× · 2017–2022 · $53k · revenue +161%
  • MC
    MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER
    3× · 2018–2021 · $13k · revenue +60%
  • PH
    PLEASANT HILL FOURTH OF JULY COMMISSION
    3× · 2021–2023 · $6k · revenue +178%

Funded once

  • MO
    MEALS ON WHEELS
    one grant, 2021 · $11k
  • SI
    Scholarships Incorporated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k
  • FB
    FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANOgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +55%

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
South Palo Alto Food Closet

Provide food to qualifying families in Palo Alto

Food & Nutrition
2
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
3
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
4
California Cricket Foundation
Recreation & Sports
5
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
6
Food for Thought of Contra Costa County

Food For Thought of Contra Costa Countys mission is to address the food insecurity faced by students and their families in the West Contra Costa County School District.

Food & Nutrition
7
Yolo Food Bank

The mission of yolo food bank is to make yolo county a thriving community where everyone has the resources they need to experience health, prosperity, and a high quality of life. Yolo Food bank durably increases food and nutrition security…

Food & Nutrition
8
Food in Need of Distribution Inc

Food in need of distribution, inc. (find food bank) is dedicated to relieving hunger, the causes of hunger, and the problems associated with hunger through awareness, education, and mobilization of resources and community involvement.

Food & Nutrition
9
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

10
Pta California Congress of Parents Teachers & Students Inc Casillas Elementary School

PTA school organization

11
Community Food Bank of San Benito County

Our mission is to provide food, nutritional education, and advocacy for those in need within san benito county, while pursuing our ultimate vision that no resident will suffer from hunger or malnutrition in san benito county.

Education
12
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Monument Crisis Center and the most unlike its peers is College Park Athletic Booster Club. 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

16 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 98 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ROTARY INT'L PLEASANT HILL ROTARY CLUB — $40,942 · OtherROTARY INT'L PLEASANT HILL ROTARY CLUBCollege Park High School's Var Seni — $34,291 · OtherCollege Park High School's Var SeniPLEASANT HILL LIBRARY FUND — $31,000 · OtherPLEASANT HILL LIBRARY FUNDMEALS ON WHEELS — $11,250 · OtherScholarships Incorporated — $9,908 · Other+82 more — $150,605 · Other+82 moreWHITE PONY EXPRESS — $53,130 · Human ServicesWHITE PONY EXPRESSMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER — $12,850 · Human ServicesMONUMENT CRISIS CENTERYouth Homes Inc — $8,500 · Human ServicesYouth Homes Inc+2 more — $2,500 · Human ServicesFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $6,578 · Food & NutritionCHOICE IN AGING — $3,100 · HealthNEW DAY FOR CHILDREN — $600 · HealthCHRISTMAS FOR EVERYONE INC — $2,500 · PhilanthropyCOLLEGE PARK ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB — $1,000 · EducationContra Costa Realtors In Motion — $500 · Community Improvement
Other$277,996Human Services$76,980Food & Nutrition$6,578Health$3,700Philanthropy$2,500Education$1,000Community Improvement$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWHITE PONY EXPRESS — $53,130 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetROTARY INT'L PLEASANT HILL ROTARY CLUB — $40,942 over 3y, 34% of budgetMONUMENT CRISIS CENTER — $12,850 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Homes Inc — $8,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $6,578 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLEASANT HILL FOURTH OF JULY COMMISSION — $5,500 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCHOICE IN AGING — $3,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS FOR EVERYONE INC — $2,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSHELTERBOX USA INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARTINEZ ROTARY CLUB — $1,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCOLLEGE PARK ATHLETIC BOOSTER CLUB — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW DAY FOR CHILDREN — $600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTOVETEAM INTERNATIONAL — $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetContra Costa Realtors In Motion — $500 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

  • Who funds WHITE PONY EXPRESS
  • Who funds ROTARY INT'L PLEASANT HILL ROTARY CLUB
  • Who funds MONUMENT CRISIS CENTER
  • Who funds Scholarships Incorporated
  • Who funds Youth Homes Inc
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO
  • Who funds PLEASANT HILL FOURTH OF JULY COMMISSION
  • Who funds CHOICE IN AGING
  • Who funds CHRISTMAS FOR EVERYONE 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.

East Bay Community FoundationCA12.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: East Bay Community Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Pleasant Hill Rotary 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
202122232425
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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 Pleasant Hill Rotary Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Pleasant Hill Rotary 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 98 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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