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San Jose Foundation Inc at a glance

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San Jose Foundation Inc

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.

$450
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$300
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$18kHealth$2kAnimals$1kRecreation & Sports$625Arts & Culture$550Religion$200
02FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$300
Median grant
1
States reached
$40k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN$300
THE CHURCH OF ST VINCENT FERRER$150
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 68% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $3k → 7%QUEENS MUSEUM OF ART NEW YORK CITY BUILDING: $250 → 13%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $375 → 17%FUTURE CHAMPIONS FOUNDATION: $100 → 15%ENDURING HEARTS: $2k → 13%WON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 7%CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY: $250 → 17%WON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $2k → 7%THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $4k → 17%THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $3k → 17%THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $2k → 17%THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $1k → 17%THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $1k → 17%THE CHURCH OF ST VINCENT FERRER: $150 → 17%THE CHURCH OF ST VINCENT FERRER: $50 → 17%STRAY FROM THE HEART: $1k → 17%CHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $300 → 17%ANIMAL HAVEN INC: $250 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$18k · 4 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

$18k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
0%

Still filing today

75%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300 went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureAnimalsRecreation & SportsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TB
    THE BREARLEY SCHOOL
    5× · 2019–2023 · $11k · revenue +37%
  • WC
    WON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER
    3× · 2020–2023 · $7k · revenue -5% · 38% of their budget
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $625 · revenue +163%

Funded once

  • ENDURING HEARTS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -1%
  • SF
    STRAY FROM THE HEART INC
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -59%
  • QM
    QUEENS MUSEUM OF ARTgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $250 · revenue +102%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Museum of the City of New York

The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…

Arts & Culture
2
The Neue Galerie New York
Arts & Culture
3
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
4
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation

Committed to innovation, the solomon r. guggenheim foundation (the "foundation") collects, (continued on schedule o)

Arts & Culture
5
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami Inc

The institute of contemporary art, miami (ica miami), is dedicated to promoting the work of contemporary artists, and to the exchange of art and ideas throughout the miami region and internationally. through an energetic calendar of…

Arts & Culture
6
The Animal Medical Center

Dedicated to providing compassionate and collaborative care to animals and to leading the advancement of veterinary medicine through innovative clinical research and education.

Animals
7
Bronx Children's Museum

Bronx children's museum's mission is to foster curiosity, creativity, and a lifelong love of learning for children and families regardless of background. we provide a gateway for more than 100,000 children annually to arts, culture, and…

Arts & Culture
8
German International School New York

To provide pre-kindergarten through grade 12 college preparatory education, growing students into socially and environmentally aware global citizens in a multi-lingual, cross-cultural setting.

Arts & Culture
9
Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)

Arts & Culture
10
Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc

Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.

Animals
11
New Museum of Contemporary Art

A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.

Arts & Culture
12
Korean K9 Rescue Inc

Korean k9 rescue inc is a non-profit no-kill 501c3 dog rescue organization that saves dogs from the mea trade puppy mills and high-kill shelters in south korea. due to the stigma associated with mixed breed and dog meat farm dogs most dogs…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Museum of Manhattan; the most unlike its peers is Queens Museum of Art. 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

9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 10 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $10,650 · EducationTHE BREARLEY SCHOOLWON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $7,000 · EducationWON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER+1 more: $100 · EducationENDURING HEARTS INC: $1,500 · HealthSTRAY FROM THE HEART INC: $1,200 · AnimalsANIMAL HAVEN INC: $250 · AnimalsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $625 · Recreation & SportsCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $300 · Arts & CultureQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $250 · Arts & CultureTHE CHURCH OF ST VINCENT FERRER: $200 · Other
Education$17,750Health$1,500Animals$1,450Recreation & Sports$625Arts & Culture$550Other$200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BREARLEY SCHOOL: $10,650 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWON COMMUNITY SERVICE CENTER: $7,000 over 3y, 38% of budgetENDURING HEARTS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRAY FROM THE HEART INC: $1,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $625 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEENS MUSEUM OF ART: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANIMAL HAVEN INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization San Jose Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from San Jose Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
    2report 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, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 10 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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