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Saratoga-Monte Sereno Community Foundation
To improve the life quality in Saratoga Monte Sereno area
Read this first · the figures below need context
94% of Saratoga-Monte Sereno Community Foundation’s FY2018 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2018 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year Saratoga-Monte Sereno Community Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 9 organizations, $223k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2018.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $222,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $242,966 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $20,466 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 · FY2017
- Under $10k5 grants · $34k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $71k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $118k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC REGENTS | $117,500 |
| SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION | $21,000 |
| SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| MONTALVO ARTS CENTER | $20,000 |
| CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA | $9,000 |
| DI ROSA PRESERVE | $7,500 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $7,500 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $5,000 |
| FOR-SITE FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–17, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, 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.
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.
Guided by artists, rooted in new mexico, site santa fe celebrates contemporary creative expression.
SF Camerawork provokes discovery, experimentation, and exchange through exhibitions and experiences for all who value new ideas in photography.
The mission of the sausalito art festival foundation is to encourage, promote and support the arts for the community.
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
The organization's mission is to preserve and share santa paula's artistic heritage, including the famous santa paula collection; and to educate and engage the community through collection, exhibition, interpretation, programming, and…
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is For-Site Foundation and the most unlike its peers is San Jose Museum of Art Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 16 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE CAPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds di Rosa Preserve ↗
- Who funds FOR-SITE Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds Saratoga Historical Foundation ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STANDBY PROGRAM INC ↗
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 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Saratoga-Monte Sereno Community 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.
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