California · 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.
- $2.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $2.5M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $140,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $355,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.5M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations San Jose Public Library Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 12 | $2.5M | 8% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $2.8M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $2.7M | 64% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $1.8M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $1.6M | 25% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $1.8M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $2.1M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $1.3M | 86% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin-McKinley School District | $2,305,484 | 6 | n/a |
| Alpha Public Schools | $760,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Evergreen School District | $250,454 | 2 | n/a |
| Reading Partners | $225,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sacred Heart Community Service | $218,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County | $194,950 | 3 | 0% |
| Sourcewise | $191,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Elevate Tutoring Inc | $188,000 | 1 | 55% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $104,542 | 3 | 0% |
| Step Up | $92,750 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Franklin-McKinley School District | $2,305,484 | 6 | n/a |
| Alpha Public Schools | $760,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Evergreen School District | $250,454 | 2 | n/a |
| Reading Partners | $225,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Sacred Heart Community Service | $218,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County | $194,950 | 3 | 0% |
| Sourcewise | $191,900 | 3 | 0% |
| Elevate Tutoring Inc | $188,000 | 1 | 55% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $104,542 | 3 | 0% |
| Step Up | $92,750 | 1 | n/a |
| Silicon Valley Education Foundation | $22,750 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
San Jose Public Library Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 8 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: 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
How this is measured
Compare San Jose Public Library Foundation with peer funders
About San Jose Public Library Foundation
- How much does San Jose Public Library Foundation give?
- San Jose Public Library Foundation reported 16 itemized grants totaling $2,474,663, out of $2,605,235 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does San Jose Public Library Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (92%), Human Services (3%), Civil Rights (1%).
- Who are San Jose Public Library Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Franklin-McKinley School District ($2.3M), Alpha Public Schools ($760k), Evergreen School District ($250k).
- Does San Jose Public Library Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as San Jose Public Library Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Family Giving Tree, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Leo M Shortino Family Foundation.
- Where is San Jose Public Library Foundation based?
- San Jose Public Library Foundation is based in CA.
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