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· Public charity

Speaker 2023 Inaugural Fund

Conduct research and advance initiatives that improve public health, education, and economic opportunity across California.

$505k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$86k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
El Teatro Campesino$125,000
Habitat for Humanity Merced Stanisl$50,000
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz$50,000
Dolores Huerta Action Fund$30,000
San Juan Home and School Club$25,000
Community Solutions for Children Fa$25,000
REACH San Benito Parks Foundation$25,000
Salinas Valley Health Foundation$25,000
Corral de Tierra Rotary Charities F$25,000
Community Food Bank of San Benito C$25,000
Community Foundation for San Benito$25,000
Jovenes de Antano$25,000
Marthas Kitchen$25,000
Organizacion En California de Lider$25,000
02The need
02

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 (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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%Marthas Kitchen: $25k → 8%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 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
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
2
Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market

To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.

3
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
4
Community Food Bank Inc

To ensure our communities are healthy and hunger-free today, tomorrow, and always.

Food & Nutrition
5
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
6
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
7
Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health
8
Clinica De Salud Del Valle De Salinas

Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas (CSVS) is dedicated to providing access to quality comprehensive health care to men, women and children with an emphasis on farm worker families and the agricultural community.

Health
9
Community Initiatives for Collective Impact

Our mission is to join diverse people, ideas, and resources to address the most pressing social and environmental justice priorities. We believe that the community concerns of Californias San Joaquin Valley (SJV) can only be addressed if…

Community Improvement
10
Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) connects people, ideas and resources to ensure equity and opportunity for all.

Philanthropy
11
Valley Health Team Inc

Valley Health Team, Inc. was established in 1973 for the purpose of providing accessible comprehensive, quality primary health care and additional services to the people in the communities we serve in a culturally and linguistically…

Health
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County and the most unlike its peers is El Teatro Campesino. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

El Teatro Campesino — $125,000 · OtherEl Teatro CampesinoHabitat for Humanity Stanislaus County — $50,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity Stanislaus CountyREACH SAN BENITO FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherREACH SAN BENITO FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS — $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALSCORRAL DE TIERRA ROTARY CHARITIES FUND — $25,000 · OtherCORRAL DE TIERRA ROTARY CHARITIES FUNDSAN JUAN HOME & SCHOOL CLUB — $25,000 · OtherSAN JUAN HOME & SCHOOL CLUBJovenes de Antano — $25,000 · OtherJovenes de AntanoSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $50,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARV…Dolores Huerta Action Fund — $30,000 · Civil RightsMARTHA'S KITCHEN — $25,000 · Human ServicesSALINAS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY — $25,000 · PhilanthropyOrganizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc — $25,000 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SAN BENITO COUNTY — $25,000 · Education
Other$300,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Civil Rights$30,000Human Services$25,000Health$25,000Philanthropy$25,000Employment$25,000Education$25,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetEl Teatro Campesino — $125,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDolores Huerta Action Fund — $30,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetMARTHA'S KITCHEN — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSALINAS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrganizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SAN BENITO COUNTY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Sunlight GivingCA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sunlight Giving · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation for San Benito County · The James Irvine Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Speaker 2023 Inaugural Fund 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 · 00%2%8%17%30%your share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s 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)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 14 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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