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San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc

The SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS WISH BOOK FUND INC.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Human Services$2.2MHealth$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.3MHousing & Shelter$1.0MEducation$531kYouth Development$523kEmployment$332kCrime & Legal$194kOther$0
02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k34 grants · $853k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $375k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$397k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOAVES AND FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN$60,000
CCO - CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES$60,000
FOSTERING PROMISE$55,000
CALIFORNIA CLUBHOUSE$50,000
THE RECORD CLEARANCE PROJECT AT SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY$50,000
VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
SAN JOSE DAY NURSERY$50,000
SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES$45,000
BEYOND EMANCIPATION$45,000
HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION$45,000
MEALS ON WHEELS OF CONTRA COSTA$45,000
BAY AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH$40,000
SHELTER INC$35,000
SHINE TOGETHER$35,000
SOURCEWISE$31,094
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, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 19% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ST VINCENT DE PAUL CONTRA COSTA AKA DISTRICT COUNCIL CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SO: $25k → 9%PATH: $25k → 14%PAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES: $59k → 13%MY NEW RED SHOES: $35k → 7%MY NEW RED SHOES: $30k → 7%SENIOR COASTSIDERS: $32k → 7%AVENIDAS: $25k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $31k → 8%AMIGOS DE GUADALUPE CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND EMPOWERMENT: $50k → 8%PORTUGUESE ORGANIZATION FOR SOCIAL SERVICES & OPPORTUNITIES (POSSO): $34k → 8%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $36k → 10%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $35k → 10%GILROY COMPASSION CENTER: $56k → 8%MEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION: $45k → 9%DREAMPOWER HORSEMANSHIP: $34k → 8%WHITE PONY EXPRESS: $25k → 9%HUNGER AT HOME: $63k → 8%AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $55k → 8%SILICON VALLEY INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER (SVILC): $34k → 8%ALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER: $30k → 8%SILICON VALLEY INDEPENDENT LIVING CENTER: $26k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $25k → 8%SUNDAY FRIENDS: $25k → 8%HUNGER AT HOME: $25k → 8%ALUM ROCK CONSELING CENTER: $25k → 8%TRI-CITY VOLUNTEERS: $31k → 10%LOVED TWICE: $27k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $61k → 10%BEYOND EMANCIPATION: $45k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $86k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $30k → 8%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $30k → 8%SOURCEWISE: $31k → 8%WOMENSV: $36k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $76k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $50k → 8%GOOD KARMA BIKES: $28k → 8%FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $82k → 8%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $43k → 8%FOSTERING PROMISE: $55k → 8%CCO - CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES: $60k → 8%ABILITIES UNITED: $31k → 8%LIFE SERVICES ALTERNATIVES: $26k → 8%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35k → 8%HELPING HANDS SILICON VALLEY(HHSV): $45k → 8%LIVE OAK ADULT DAY SERVICES: $30k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $60k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $50k → 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 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.

58%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.0M · 84 repeat orgs$3.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

84 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

84
113

Total granted

$5.0M
$3.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+14%

Still filing today

96%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $474k 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 ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY
    4× · 2018–2023 · $159k · revenue +763%
  • FP
    FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $153k · revenue +26%
  • HM
    HEARTS & MINDS ACTIVITY CENTER
    4× · 2017–2023 · $140k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +86%
  • PC
    PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS
    one grant, 2021 · $95k · revenue -19%
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS CENTRAL CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2023 · $82k · revenue +10%

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
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
2
Serra Residential Center Inc

To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities

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3
Community Action Board of Sc County Inc

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty.

Employment
4
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
5
Alameda County Homeless Action Center

HAC assists homeless and mentally ill clients in the long and difficult process of becoming eligible for SSI and MediCal benefits. HAC provides assistance with other public benefits that clients need in the interim to survive until their…

Housing & Shelter
6
Homeward Bound of Marin

Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…

Housing & Shelter
7
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
8
Bay Area Community Services Inc

BACS' mission is to uplift under-served individuals and their families by doing "whatever it takes." BACS helps people experiencing homelessness, housing insecurity, or behavioural health challenges while balancing other complications like…

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9
Community Action Marin

We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.

Human Services
10
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
11
Family Supportive Housing Inc

Family supportive housing, inc. is committed to the entire family and encourages families to stay intact while addressing their needs for food, shelter, education, and employment. the organization provides shelter, housing opportunities…

Human Services
12
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Opportunities Inc and the most unlike its peers is Thiebaut Method. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyAnimal Rescue and Shelter S…International Education and…Family Philanthropic Founda…Christian Ministry TrainingFraternal Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%3%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr14%26%35–55yr11%18%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%4%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr11%17%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%2/209
the rest of the field
12%
3,262/26,548

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.

04the grantee network

196 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. 196 of the 212 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
38
Early backer (in before they grew)
192/196
Grantees still filing
131/196
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $159,238 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON V…FIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $152,722 · Human ServicesFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTHBEYOND EMANCIPATION — $129,357 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S KITCHEN — $126,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $110,000 · Human Services+49 more — $2,013,154 · Human Services+49 moreLIFEMOVES — $108,964 · OtherPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $95,000 · OtherSWORDS TO PLOWSHARES VETERANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION — $107,000 · Other+71 more — $2,416,774 · Other+71 moreTHE HEALTH TRUST — $142,605 · HealthTHE HEALTH TRUSTHEARTS & MINDS ACTIVITY CENTER — $139,867 · HealthHEARTS & MINDS AC…HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $109,900 · HealthHEALTHIER KIDS FO…EASTER SEALS CENTRAL CALIFORNIA — $82,000 · HealthEASTER SEALS CENT…JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES — $62,000 · HealthCOASTAL KIDS HOME CARE — $60,000 · HealthVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $58,500 · HealthVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC — $54,450 · HealthCalifornia Clubhouse DBA Aspire House — $50,000 · HealthLIONS CENTER FOR THE VISUALLY IMPAIRED INC — $49,600 · Health+22 more — $529,421 · Health+22 moreLOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN — $169,928 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $96,961 · Food & NutritionSERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS — $62,525 · Food & NutritionECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM — $57,821 · Food & NutritionHopes Corner Inc — $54,944 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $50,003 · Food & NutritionMEALS ON WHEELS CONTRA COSTA INC — $45,000 · Food & NutritionPeninsula Food Runners Inc — $40,000 · Food & NutritionOPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC — $37,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $12,000 · Food & NutritionHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY — $100,050 · Housing & ShelterSHELTER INC — $94,000 · Housing & ShelterWEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC — $56,000 · Housing & ShelterABODE SERVICES — $52,500 · Housing & ShelterWinter Nights Family Shelter Inc — $50,084 · Housing & ShelterEAST BAY INNOVATIONS INC — $32,410 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING CHOICES COALITION FOR PERSONS WITH DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES INC — $23,121 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $21,500 · Housing & ShelterThiebaut Method — $50,050 · EducationTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY — $50,000 · EducationSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $50,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS — $41,319 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL — $39,000 · EducationRESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING — $32,500 · EducationREBUILDING TOGETHER SILICON VALLEY — $25,000 · EducationThe Peninsula College Fund — $24,000 · EducationSACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL — $20,000 · EducationACHIEVEKIDS — $16,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY — $15,000 · EducationLIVE EARTH FARM DISCOVERY PROGRAM — $12,959 · Education+1 more — $11,050 · EducationSHINE TOGETHER INC — $116,280 · Youth DevelopmentLIVE IN PEACE — $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentCIVICORPS — $47,682 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS FOR YOUTH INC — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentWEHOPE — $26,180 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBerkeley Baby Book Project — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $21,600 · Youth Development
Human Services$2,690,471Other$2,727,738Health$1,338,343Food & Nutrition$626,182Housing & Shelter$429,665Education$386,878Youth Development$361,742

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetLOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN — $169,928 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $159,238 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH — $152,722 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE HEALTH TRUST — $142,605 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHEARTS & MINDS ACTIVITY CENTER — $139,867 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetBEYOND EMANCIPATION — $129,357 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetMARTHA'S KITCHEN — $126,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC — $116,280 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $110,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $109,900 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $108,964 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSWORDS TO PLOWSHARES VETERANS RIGHTS ORGANIZATION — $107,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY — $100,050 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $96,961 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $95,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSHELTER INC — $94,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBAY AREA COMMUNITY HEALTH — $88,178 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNGER AT HOME — $88,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetIMMIGRATION INSTITUTE OF THE BAY AREA — $87,848 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES — $87,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSilicon Valley Independent Living Center — $84,700 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetOPPORTUNITY JUNCTION INC — $83,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEASTER SEALS CENTRAL CALIFORNIA — $82,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetHOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $71,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBattle Tested Kids INC — $69,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetSourcewise — $65,539 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDISTRICT COUNCIL OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL DIOCESE — $65,414 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMBOLDEN CHANGE — $65,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetYOUTH SCIENCE INSTITUTE — $64,178 over 2y, 5.3% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS DIABLO REGION — $64,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSERVICE OPPORTUNITY FOR SENIORS — $62,525 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES — $62,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLoaves and Fishes of Contra Costa — $62,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $60,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE IN PEACE — $60,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCENTER FOR EMPLOYMENT TRAINING — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOASTAL KIDS HOME CARE — $60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetPAJARO VALLEY SHELTER SERVICES — $59,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $58,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM — $57,821 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC — $56,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY COMPASSION CENTER — $56,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY — $55,243 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFOSTERING PROMISE — $55,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetALUM ROCK COUNSELING CENTER INC — $55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHopes Corner Inc — $54,944 over 2y, 8.9% 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.

Los Altos Mountain Vi…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Sobrato Family Fo…Destination Home SV c…Sunlight GivingEast Bay Community Fo…Second Harvest of Sil…The Health TrustUnited Way of the Bay…Valley Health Foundat…Sutter Bay HospitalsHeffernan Group Found…
Los Altos Mountain View Community FoundationCA105.2× affinity53 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sunlight Giving · East Bay Community Foundation · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · The Health Trust · United Way of the Bay Area · Valley Health Foundation (Vhf) · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Heffernan Group 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 San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc 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%3%13%28%50%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
    98report 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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc?

    Find your warmest path to San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 212 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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