· Public charity
San Jose Public Library Foundation
The san jos public library foundation supports educational programs and resources through the public library, schools, and community-based organizations, to create an educated, equitable, empowered and engaged community.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 17 grants below total $2,817,630 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,624,525 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,806,895 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 · FY2024
- $10k–50k8 grants · $278k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $488k
- $250k+6 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALPHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $560,000 |
| FRANKLIN-MCKINLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $410,000 |
| LUTHER BURBANK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $290,000 |
| SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $271,613 |
| SANTA CLARA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCAT | $270,126 |
| ALUM ROCK SCHOOL DISTRICT | $250,000 |
| READING PARTNERS SILICON VALLEY | $225,000 |
| CAMPBELL UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT | $200,000 |
| SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE | $62,850 |
| ICAN | $48,850 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SC COUNTY | $46,200 |
| SOURCEWISE | $45,000 |
| ICAN | $43,350 |
| VIETNAMESE VOLUNTEER FOUNDATION | $37,500 |
| SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY | $29,449 |
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 (FY23–24, $407k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225k 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
- APALPHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS2× · 2022–2024 · $620k · revenue +32%
SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE2× · 2023–2024 · $152k · revenue +13%- SSourcewise2× · 2023–2024 · $126k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- ETELEVATE TUTORING INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $188k · revenue +177% · 55% of their budget
- MSMORELAND SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $100k
- MPMT PLEASANT SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2018 · $100k
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.
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
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.
Partners in College Success (PiCS) ensures equal access to higher education and an equitable college experience for low-income, refugee, immigrant, foster, homeless and disadvantaged youth in San Diego County. PiCS provides dedicated,…
Children's institute's mission is to leverage research, practice, policy, and advocacy to shift systems toward justice for families so that all of oregon's children, prenatal to grade 5, have access to opportunity.
At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
Our Mission is to develop and strengthen the power of Latinas to advance our collective success through sisterhood, leadership, and civic engagement.
To empower low-income youth and families to break systemic barriers and emerge as successful professionals and community leaders.
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Ayc's mission is to meet the educational and social service needs of low-income, immigrant, at-risk, and adjudicated youth and families of all ethnicities, with a special cultural and linguistic competence with asian americans. by…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 24 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 ALPHA PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds READING PARTNERS ↗
- Who funds ELEVATE TUTORING INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Sourcewise ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 Family Giving Tree · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Public Library 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.