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Sammut Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED SERVICES ORGANIZATION | $15,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE SAN BRUNO PUBLIC LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| CORA | $10,000 |
| MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against -29% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 22 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- PRPomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center4× · 2019–2022 · $1.1M · revenue +42%
- SBSAN BRUNO EDUCATION FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $68k · revenue +42%
CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse5× · 2019–2024 · $40k · revenue +65%
Funded once
- SBSAN BRUNO POLICE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SBSAN BRUNO YOUTH BASEBALLone grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +2%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Youth sports
Sfba's main mission is to "bring baseball back to the city" by providing opportunities for youth in sports through competitive team play. our mission facilitieates the opportunity for ballplayers of all skill levels to reach their full…
Provides youth soccer development and amateur athletic competition through coaching, training and competition.
The organization supervises amateur athletes as well as other recreational activities for children, serving approximately 1,200 participants.
The purpose of the tax-exempt SSF Youth Baseball is to organize and supervise the playing of youth baseball (Ages 4 to 14) in the City of South San Francisco, CA., as well as providing tournament opportunities in other cities. This…
San Francisco United Soccer Club teaches girls and boys to play the game of soccer with skills well-honed through hard work and patient coaching. The Club fosters collaboration and teamwork bolstered by warm on- and off-the-field…
We believe that sports have the power to unite individuals from diverse backgrounds, promote physical fitness and well-being, and cultivate a spirit of camaraderie and sportsmanship.
The purpose of this Association shall be to develop, promote and administer the game of soccer among youth (boys and girls under nineteen (19) years of age), regardless of race, color religion, age, sex, or national origin within territory…
To provide baseball instruction and tournaments for youth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Bruno Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Catholic Worker Hospitality House. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
20 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. 20 of the 44 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center ↗
- Who funds SAN BRUNO EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC SKYLINE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING ↗
- Who funds SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SAN BRUNO YOUTH BASEBALL ↗
- Who funds THE SAN BRUNO GIRLS SOFTBALL LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds MISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAN BRUNO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPUCHINO HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF DALY CITY ↗
- Who funds SAN MATEO YOUTH SOFTBALL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC WORKER HOSPITALITY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHP 11-99 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cake4kids ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The San Bruno Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Sammut Family 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.
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.