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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.

$157k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$87kFood & Nutrition$52kArts & Culture$46kHealth$41kCommunity Improvement$28kCrime & Legal$18kHuman Services$16kRecreation & Sports$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $89,889, the rows itemized in this filing. The $156,781 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $66,892 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
$8,432
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%Parents Helping Parents: $5k → 8%AINAK: $10k → 8%Bill Wilson Center: $6k → 8%Bill Wilson Center: $5k → 8%Martha's Kitchen: $52k → 8%Assistance League of Los Gatos-Saratoga: $5k → 8%The Grateful Garment Project: $10k → 8%The Grateful Garment Project: $8k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

33%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$102k · 6 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
13

Total granted

$102k
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-3%
+68%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $71k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementEmploymentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WV
    WEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · $31k · revenue -34%
  • TG
    The Grateful Garment Project
    2× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue -3%
  • VR
    VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $18k · revenue -73%

Funded once

  • MK
    MARTHA'S KITCHEN
    one grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue -33%
  • RI
    ROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5170graduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +208%
  • CA
    COUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -30%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Silicon Valley Rising Action

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.

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2
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company

Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.

Arts & Culture
3
Sv Home

Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.

Housing & Shelter
4
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - SV2

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…

Philanthropy
5
Sonoma Valley Education Foundation

The Sonoma Valley Education Foundation exists to improve education by enriching teaching, inspiring learning, and advancing innovative programs that enable every student to succeed.

Philanthropy
6
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley

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…

Crime & Legal
7
Theatre Bay Area

(cont from page 1) democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.

Arts & Culture
8
San Jose Stage Company

Live theatre; for benefit of actors, directors and public

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9
Santa Cruz Local Inc

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.

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10
San Jose Chamber Orchestra

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…

Unclassified
11
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center

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.

Human Services
12
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parents Helping Parents Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
13/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $51,684 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S KITCHENThe Grateful Garment Project: $18,300 · Human ServicesThe Grateful Garment ProjectBILL WILSON CENTER: $11,186 · Human ServicesBILL WILSON CENTERAINAK: $10,000 · Human ServicesAINAKPARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC: $5,200 · Human ServicesASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA: $5,000 · Human ServicesROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5170: $15,000 · OtherROTARY INTERNATIONAL DIST…CAMPBELL-SAN JOSE WEST ROTARY FOUNDATION: $13,000 · OtherCAMPBELL-SAN JOSE WEST RO…LIFEMOVES: $11,064 · OtherLIFEMOVESHakone Foundation: $7,500 · OtherHakone FoundationECO Office City of Saratoga: $7,368 · OtherECO Office City of Sarato…SOUTH BAY MUSICAL THEATRE: $6,789 · OtherSOUTH BAY MUSICAL THEATRELOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $5,400 · OtherLOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIAT…Downtown Streets Inc: $5,000 · OtherDowntown Streets IncBay Area Womens Sports Initiative: $5,000 · OtherBay Area Womens Sports In…VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $17,500 · HealthVIA REHABILIT…COUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH: $9,750 · HealthCOUNSELING AN…KYLE J TAYLOR FOUNDATION: $7,500 · HealthKYLE J TAYLOR…SQUARE PEG FOUNDATION: $5,000 · HealthSQUARE PEG FO…Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $29,715 · PhilanthropySilicon Vall…WALDEN WEST OUTDOOR SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $7,500 · PhilanthropyWALDEN WEST …WEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $30,745 · Community ImprovementWEST VALLE…PURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE - SOUTH BAY: $20,000 · EducationPURSUIT O…SANTA CLARA COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $7,000 · EducationSANTA CLA…SILICON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE: $13,257 · Arts & CultureTHE PEAR AVENUE THEATRE: $8,432 · Arts & CultureSan Jose Taiko Group Inc: $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$101,370Other$76,121Health$39,750Philanthropy$37,215Community Improvement$30,745Education$27,000Arts & Culture$26,689

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARTHA'S KITCHEN: $51,684 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $30,745 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $29,715 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE - SOUTH BAY: $20,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetThe Grateful Garment Project: $18,300 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROTARY INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT 5170: $15,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCAMPBELL-SAN JOSE WEST ROTARY FOUNDATION: $13,000 over 2y, 7.4% of budgetBILL WILSON CENTER: $11,186 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $11,064 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAINAK: $10,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetCOUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH: $9,750 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKYLE J TAYLOR FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetWALDEN WEST OUTDOOR SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetHakone Foundation: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSANTA CLARA COUNTY LIBRARY DISTRICT FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSOUTH BAY MUSICAL THEATRE: $6,789 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetLOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $5,400 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC: $5,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBay Area Womens Sports Initiative: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSan Jose Taiko Group Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSQUARE PEG FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA: $5,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Farrington Historical…Los Altos Mountain Vi…100 Women Charitable …Silicon Valley CreatesSan Jose Mercury News…The Sobrato Family Fo…Bright Funds Foundati…Mission City Communit…Star One Credit UnionThe Sharks FoundationRotary Club of San Jo…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA29.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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    How do I get to Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Saratoga Rotary Charitable Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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