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Sarlo Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.1M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$2.2MInternational$1.1MCommunity Improvement$565kHuman Services$540kCivil Rights$534kYouth Development$500kFood & Nutrition$435kCrime & Legal$375kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $275k
  • $50k–250k17 grants · $1.6M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$41M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PUBLIC WORKS ALLIANCE$250,000
SAFE & SOUND$150,000
INSEPARABLE INC$150,000
CHILDREN NOW$150,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$140,000
NATIONAL CENTER FOR YOUTH LAW$125,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$125,000
MARIN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES COMMISSION$112,750
POSTPARTUM SUPPORT CENTER$100,000
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC$100,000
CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$80,000
CALMATTERS$50,000
WEST MARIN FUND$50,000
BEATS RHYMES AND LIFE INC$50,000
A HOME WITHIN$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY22–24, $638k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 87% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOSTER FORWARD: $5k → 14%OPEN SOURCE WELLNESS: $25k → 9%FOSTER FORWARD: $3k → 14%CALIFORNIA COALITION FOR YOUTH: $25k → 12%CHILDREN NOW: $125k → 10%THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT: $20k → 9%CHILDREN NOW: $125k → 10%PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC: $35k → 8%CHILDREN NOW: $75k → 10%A HOME WITHIN: $50k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $150k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

MN
WI
NY
MA
RI
CA
MD
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 19% of Sarlo Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Sarlo Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 15% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.3M · 12 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
33

Total granted

$4.3M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+38%

Still filing today

92%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $838k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesFood & NutritionEducationCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +38%
  • Public Works Alliance
    2× · 2023–2024 · $510k · revenue +340%
  • CHILDREN NOW
    3× · 2022–2024 · $475k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • MG
    MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +214%
  • GM
    GLIDE MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • CC
    CENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $60k · revenue +54%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
2
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
3
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…

Health
4
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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5
Extrafood

Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…

Food & Nutrition
6
Project Open Hand

Project Open Hand's mission is to improve health outcomes and quality of life by providing nutritious meals to the sick and vulnerable, caring for and educating our community.

Food & Nutrition
7
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
8
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
9
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
10
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
11
California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

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12
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is John Paul Ii Center for Women. 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 29 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%5%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr12%19%35–55yr12%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%11%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr18%17%20–35yr12%18%35–55yr12%31%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 11% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/65
the rest of the field
13%
16,615/125,497

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.

05the grantee network

64 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. 64 of the 70 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/64
Grantees still filing
40/64
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

National Center for Youth Law — $375,000 · OtherNational Center for Youth LawSAFE & SOUND — $300,000 · OtherSAFE & SOUNDUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO CHILDREN'S — $275,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRAN…MARIN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES COMMISSION — $112,750 · OtherMARIN CHILDREN AND FAMILIES COMMI…GLIDE MEMORIAL UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $100,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND — $100,000 · Other+25 more — $730,500 · Other+25 moreMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $500,000 · HealthMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL…Inseparable Inc — $400,000 · HealthInseparable IncBEATS RHYMES AND LIFE — $100,000 · HealthBEATS RHYMES AND LIFEPostpartum Support Center — $100,000 · HealthPostpartum Support Cen…CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $80,000 · HealthCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MED…Access Institute for Psychological Services — $50,000 · Health+6 more — $134,500 · Health+6 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,000,000 · InternationalInternational Res…HEALING TOGETHER — $50,000 · International+1 more — $5,000 · InternationalUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $795,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF …UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Education+3 more — $41,000 · EducationCHILDREN NOW — $475,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN NO…A HOME WITHIN INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesA HOME WITH…PARENT SERVICES PROJECT — $35,000 · Human ServicesOPEN SOURCE WELLNESS — $25,000 · Human ServicesCalifornia Coalition for Youth — $25,000 · Human ServicesTHE STEPHEN C ROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Human Services+3 more — $42,500 · Human Services+3 morePublic Works Alliance — $510,000 · Community ImprovementPublic Wo…COMMUNITY PARTNERS — $30,000 · Community Improvement+2 more — $25,000 · Community ImprovementAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $200,000 · PhilanthropyTHE WEST MARIN FUND — $50,000 · PhilanthropyMental Health Coalition Inc — $25,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $10,000 · Philanthropy+1 more — $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$1,993,250Health$1,364,500International$1,055,000Education$866,000Human Services$677,500Community Improvement$565,000Philanthropy$296,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $795,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Works Alliance — $510,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCHILDREN NOW — $475,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetInseparable Inc — $400,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetNational Center for Youth Law — $375,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSAFE & SOUND — $300,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $200,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEATS RHYMES AND LIFE — $100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPostpartum Support Center — $100,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL CALIFORNIA FOOD BANK — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $55,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WEST MARIN FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR MONTEREY COUNTY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSACRAMENTO FOOD BANK & FAMILY SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE SPACE PICTURES FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetHEALING TOGETHER — $50,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetA HOME WITHIN INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetYOUTH ALLIANCE — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCalMatters — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetYouth Leadership Institute — $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAccess Institute for Psychological Services — $50,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — $40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT SERVICES PROJECT — $35,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPEN SOURCE WELLNESS — $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH TRANSFORMING JUSTICE — $25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCalifornia Coalition for Youth — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE STEPHEN C ROSE LEGACY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSONOMA FAMILY MEAL — $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPSFC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMental Health Coalition Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFEEDING THE FOOTHILLS — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRITTER CENTER — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINQUIRING SYSTEMS INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

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.

Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…The California Endowm…Bothin FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Leonard & Beryl Buck …Jewish Community Fede…Bella Vista FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…ImpactassetsincThe James Irvine Foun…East Bay Community Fo…
Marin Community FoundationCA24.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Endowment · Bothin Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Bella Vista Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · The James Irvine Foundation · East Bay Community 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 Sarlo Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Sarlo Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Sarlo Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 70 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines