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Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation
Grants to support 1 youth services activities - high school seniors, rotary youth entrepreneurial leaders, and various school programs, 2 community services activities - Feeding the Hungry, Rise Against Hunger, Operation Care Comfort, and other programs.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 10 grants below total $89,889 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $156,781 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $66,892 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pursuit of Excellence- POE | $20,000 |
| AINAK | $10,000 |
| The Grateful Garment Project | $10,000 |
| Camp Via West | $8,500 |
| The Pear Avenue Theatre | $8,432 |
| Silicon Valley Shakespeare | $7,857 |
| Kyle J Taylor Foundation | $7,500 |
| Santa Clara county Library District Foundation | $7,000 |
| Open Doors To Future Possibilities | $5,400 |
| Parents Helping Parents | $5,200 |
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 (FY19–25, $101k) 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.
6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k 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
- WVWEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2023 · $31k · revenue -34%
- TGThe Grateful Garment Project2× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue -3%
- VRVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC2× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue -73%
Funded once
- MKMARTHA'S KITCHENone grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue -33%
- RIROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5170graduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +208%
- CACOUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTHone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -30%
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.
Silicon Valley Rising Action takes on occupational segregation and income inequality with a comprehensive campaign to raise wages, create affordable housing, and build a tech economy that works for everyone.
Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.
Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.
Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact…
The Sonoma Valley Education Foundation exists to improve education by enriching teaching, inspiring learning, and advancing innovative programs that enable every student to succeed.
The Law Foundation uses the law as a tool for change. The Law Foundation addresses problems linked to social injustices like poverty, discrimination, child abuse, and neglect. Every day, our attorneys, social workers, and advocates craft…
(cont from page 1) democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.
Live theatre; for benefit of actors, directors and public
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
The mission of the San Jose Chamber Orchestra (SJCO) is to share exciting, though-provoking, and vibrant Music by contemporary and time-honored composers reflecting the cultural diversity of our everchanging community, and to support and…
SVILC builds disability identity, culture, pride, creating opportunities for personal and community transformation, and partnering with others to ensure that civil and human rights are protected.
Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parents Helping Parents Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kyle J Taylor Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
26 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. 26 of the 27 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 MARTHA'S KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds WEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE - SOUTH BAY ↗
- Who funds The Grateful Garment Project ↗
- Who funds VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5170 ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE ↗
- Who funds CAMPBELL-SAN JOSE WEST ROTARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BILL WILSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds AINAK ↗
- Who funds COUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds THE PEAR AVENUE THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KYLE J TAYLOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WALDEN WEST OUTDOOR SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hakone Foundation ↗
- Who funds SANTA CLARA COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH BAY MUSICAL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds PARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC ↗
- Who funds Downtown Streets Inc ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative ↗
- Who funds San Jose Taiko Group Inc ↗
- Who funds SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · 100 Women Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Creates · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Mission City Community Fund · Star One Credit Union · The Sharks Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose 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 Rotary Charitable 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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