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Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation

The primary purpose of the foundation is to participate in community service and philanthropy.

$515k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$71k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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.

Health$468kArts & Culture$211kHuman Services$140kPhilanthropy$77kFood & Nutrition$77kYouth Development$66kEnvironment$65kEducation$54kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 16 grants below total $246,053 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $514,695 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $268,642 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $143k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $71k
$11,937
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION$71,450
ROTACARE BAY AREA$20,000
NEW BALLET$15,000
SAN JOSE DAY NURSERY$15,000
SALVATION ARMY$14,999
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$12,855
SAN JOSE WOMAN'S CLUB$12,000
SAN JOSE LIBRARY FOUNDATION$11,937
HEARTS AND MIND CENTER$11,463
FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING$10,000
SAN JOSE OKAYAMA SISTER CITIES$10,000
MOTHER'S MILK BANK$10,000
SENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES$9,733
YMCA$8,500
SANTA CLARA COUNTY SEARCH AND RESCUE$7,500
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 (FY17–25, $415k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 2% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%KIDANGO INC: $8k → 10%VALLEY VERDE: $10k → 8%HUNGER AT HOME: $9k → 8%PARENTS HELPING PARENTS: $5k → 8%GOOD KARMA BIKES: $5k → 8%AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $10k → 8%GRACE SOLUTIONS: $10k → 8%HUNGER AT HOME: $10k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $10k → 8%RECOVERY CAFE SAN JOSE: $8k → 8%RECOVERY CAF SAN JOSE: $6k → 8%AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $6k → 8%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $10k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $10k → 8%VNHELP: $17k → 8%GOOD KARMA BIKES: $8k → 8%ANIMAL ASSISTED HAPPINESS: $10k → 8%YMCA: $9k → 8%LIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES (LSA): $10k → 8%PACIFIC CLINICS: $10k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA: $236k → 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.

Grants abroad, by region — $80k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Sub-Saharan Africa$29k · 36% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: NIGERIA CLINIC REHAP/GHANA SANITATION

Central America and the Caribbean$22k · 28% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: EL SALVADOR SCHOOLS/ENGLISH

South America$18k · 22% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: PERU GLOBAL GRANT

East Asia and the Pacific$9k · 11% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: VIETNAM MUSHROOM FARM

Russia and Neighboring States$3k · 3% · 1 grant

Stated purpose: ARMENIA

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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 24% of Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 82% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Rotary Club of San Jose Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

31%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$382k · 16 repeat orgs$841k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
56

Total granted

$382k
$699k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%
+25%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 19% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $142k 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 ServicesArts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationEnvironmentOther

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

  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY
    3× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +385%
  • OC
    OUR CITY FOREST
    3× · 2017–2023 · $30k · revenue +72%
  • GR
    Guadalupe River Park Conservancy
    2× · 2018–2024 · $25k · revenue +155%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $236k · revenue -7%
  • VH
    Vietnam Health Education & Literature Projects
    one grant, 2023 · $17k · revenue -6%
  • MB
    MERCY BEYOND BORDERSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +35%

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
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
2
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
3
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
4
Instituto Familiar De La Raza

Instituto provides hiv related services and social service including health promotion, education, prevention, early intervention, case management and clinical and artistic mentoring services, psychological and psychiatric interventions as…

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5
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
6
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center

SVILC builds disability identity, culture, pride, creating opportunities for personal and community transformation, and partnering with others to ensure that civil and human rights are protected.

Human Services
7
Latina Coalition of Silicon Valley

Our Mission is to develop and strengthen the power of Latinas to advance our collective success through sisterhood, leadership, and civic engagement.

Public Benefit
8
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
10
Community Agency for Resources Advocacy & Services

Resources and Community Advocacy. Serving low income youth and families in the community. Providing culturally competent and sensitivie programing based on based on the needs and resources available in Santa Clara County.

Human Services
11
Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits

To advance the role, voice, and capacity of the nonprofit community so it can be a force for positive social change and support the creation of equitable, vibrant, and thriving communities.

Education
12
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Health Trust and the most unlike its peers is La Raza Historical Society of Santa Clara Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr15%5%5–10yr20%24%10–20yr15%26%20–35yr16%26%35–55yr9%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr15%24%20–35yr16%24%35–55yr9%31%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/86
the rest of the field
11%
1,112/10,391

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.

05the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 86 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/82
Grantees still filing
48/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $236,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COU…HUNGER AT HOME — $18,758 · Human ServicesVietnam Health Education & Literature Projects — $16,739 · Human ServicesAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY — $15,642 · Human Services+14 more — $138,274 · Human Services+14 moreROTACARE BAY AREA INC — $85,000 · OtherROTACARE BAY AREA INCSAN JOSE DAY NURSERY — $15,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $14,999 · OtherCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $20,000 · OtherSan Jose Grail Family Services — $18,600 · Other+32 more — $263,390 · Other+32 moreSAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $20,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE CHIL…SAN JOSE CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATER — $19,776 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE CHIL…SYMPHONY SAN JOSE — $17,326 · Arts & CultureSYMPHONY SAN …SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $16,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF ART…NEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC — $15,000 · Arts & CultureNEW BALLET SC…CITY LIGHTS THEATER CO OF SAN JOSE INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureCITY LIGHTS T…SILICON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE — $9,811 · Arts & CultureSILICON VALLE…LA RAZA HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY — $9,788 · Arts & CultureLA RAZA HISTO…CALIFORNIA TROLLEY & RAILROAD CORPORATION — $9,500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA TR…MOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED — $8,390 · Arts & CultureMOVIMIENTO DE…OPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED — $7,608 · Arts & CultureHISTORY SAN JOSE — $6,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $5,000 · Arts & CultureTHE HEALTH TRUST — $18,711 · HealthHEARTS & MINDS ACTIVITY CENTER — $11,463 · HealthLATINAS CONTRA CANCER — $10,000 · HealthROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $9,647 · HealthMOMENTUM FOR HEALTH — $9,449 · HealthHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $7,038 · HealthCANCER CAREPOINT INC — $5,837 · HealthEATING DISORDERS RESOURCE CENTER — $5,182 · HealthPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION — $71,450 · PhilanthropyFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION — $6,000 · PhilanthropyBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $32,766 · Youth DevelopmentSTARTING ARTS INC — $16,689 · Youth DevelopmentBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentENVISION YOUR PATHWAY INC — $8,011 · Youth DevelopmentOUR CITY FOREST — $30,000 · EnvironmentGuadalupe River Park Conservancy — $25,167 · EnvironmentTHE TRASH PUNX — $9,574 · Environment
Human Services$425,413Other$416,989Arts & Culture$154,699Health$87,327Philanthropy$77,450Youth Development$67,466Environment$64,741

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 budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $236,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROTACARE BAY AREA INC — $85,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $32,766 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOUR CITY FOREST — $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGuadalupe River Park Conservancy — $25,167 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetSAN JOSE CHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAN JOSE CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATER — $19,776 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHUNGER AT HOME — $18,758 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE HEALTH TRUST — $18,711 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSan Jose Grail Family Services — $18,600 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSYMPHONY SAN JOSE — $17,326 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetVietnam Health Education & Literature Projects — $16,739 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSTARTING ARTS INC — $16,689 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP — $16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY — $15,642 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetNEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAN JOSE DAY NURSERY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRecovery Cafe San Jose — $14,130 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGOOD KARMA BIKES INC — $13,419 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSAN JOSE WOMANS CLUB — $12,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHEARTS & MINDS ACTIVITY CENTER — $11,463 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMERCY BEYOND BORDERS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE SOLUTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCITY LIGHTS THEATER CO OF SAN JOSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMOTHERS' MILK BANK CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetValley Verde — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLATINAS CONTRA CANCER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSan Jose Jazz — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SCIENCE INSTITUTE — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Assisted Happiness Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSAN JOSE CONSERVATION CORPS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBILLY DEFRANK LGBTQ COMMUNITY CENTER — $9,994 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetNorthside Theatre Council of San Jose — $9,873 over 1y, 13% of budgetSILICON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE — $9,811 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetLA RAZA HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY — $9,788 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetMARTHA'S KITCHEN — $9,776 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSENECA FAMILY OF AGENCIES — $9,733 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL — $9,710 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $9,647 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS — $9,635 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRASH PUNX — $9,574 over 1y, 4.8% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…San Jose Mercury News…The Sobrato Family Fo…The David and Lucile …The Applied Materials…Leo M Shortino Family…Destination Home SV c…The Health TrustKaiser Foundation Hos…Agilent Technologies …Los Altos Mountain Vi…Bright Funds Foundati…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA62.4× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Health Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Agilent Technologies Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Bright Funds 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 Rotary Club of San Jose 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely 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.

    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 86 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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