California · Public charity
Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation
The primary purpose of the foundation is to participate in community service and philanthropy. The foundation makes grants to aid youth and to assist in community and international service. The priority of the funding is to support local and community organizations. The foundation also sponsors projects and identifiable capital…
- $515k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $246k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,937
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $71,450
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 83% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 17% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $343k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $175k | 87% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $413k | 62% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $120k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $151k | 81% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $40k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $56k | 57% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $87k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $61k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County | $236,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rotacare Bay Area Inc | $85,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley | $32,766 | 3 | 0% |
| Our City Forest | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Guadalupe River Park Conservancy | $25,167 | 2 | 3% |
| San Jose Children's Discovery Museum | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Child Advocates of Silicon Valley Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Jose Childrens Musical Theater | $19,776 | 2 | 0% |
| Hunger at Home | $18,758 | 2 | 1% |
| The Health Trust | $18,711 | 2 | 0% |
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Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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About Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation
- How much does Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation give?
- Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation reported 16 itemized grants totaling $246,053, out of $514,695 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (36%), Arts & Culture (16%), Human Services (11%).
- Who are Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County ($236k), Rotacare Bay Area Inc ($85k), Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley ($33k).
- Does Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc, The Sobrato Family Foundation.
- Where is Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation based?
- Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation is based in CA.
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