How much did SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY grant in FY2023?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

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2021

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2022

hunger purchaseequipmentpurchase fordford transitpurchase summerrefrigeratorcooler

2023

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 94 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k62 grants · $97k
$10k–50k20 grants · $423k
$50k–250k12 grants · $1.2M

$1,365

Median grant

States reached

$242M

Total assets

Largest grants

MARTHA'S KITCHEN$214,657
RIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION$169,298
SAMARITAN HOUSE$133,288
NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY SERVICES$126,418
SO SAN FRAN UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT$97,968
SAN JOSE CONSERVATION CORP CYPRESS$85,935
MARANATHA CHRISTIAN CENTER$83,300
LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRY LHM$82,139
CATHEDRAL OF FAITH - REACHING OUT$73,980
MUSLIM SISTERS HELPING$64,929
ST FRANCIS CENTER$55,808
DALY CITY PARTNERSHIP$50,511
SAN MATEO COUNTY LIBRARY$46,318
CAMPBELL UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT$35,499
REDEMPTION DBA JUBILEE OUTREACH$34,185

02The need

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 (FY20–23, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7% — the area typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.4M · 53 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +126% since the first grant, against +96% for the ones you funded once.

53 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$6.4M

$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+126%

+96%

Still filing today

66%

55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $526k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesFood & NutritionHealthEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentOther

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

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SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL
5× · 2019–2023 · $758k · revenue +223%
YMCA COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTER
5× · 2019–2023 · $430k · revenue +172%
SC
SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES
5× · 2019–2023 · $387k · revenue +73%

Funded once

CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKSgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $524k · revenue +311%
SM
SAN MATEO FOSTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
one grant, 2022 · $111k
PR
PARCA - REACH
5× · 2019–2023 · $100k

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.

Svhome

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

Housing & Shelter

Housing Matters

Provide emergency and transitional services to homeless individuals in the county of santa cruz.

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San Francisco Community Agencies

To ensure that those serving san francisco's vulnerable populations are prepared for a disaster.

Human Services

Children's Council of San Francisco

Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.

Human Services

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

Pajaro Valley Shelter Services

Pajaro Valley Shelter Services provides families with a path toward self-sufficient futures through short-and longer-term housing and supportive services.

Human Services

Community Housing Sonoma County

Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.

Housing & Shelter

Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for the people in alameda and conta costa counties, california with specific needs imposed by age or disability.

Housing & Shelter

Insight Housing

Ensuring everyone in our community has a home through supportive, equitable and sustainable housing solutions.

Human Services

Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley

Housing rehabilitation and repairs

Education

Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services

San Benito County Community Services

To pursue affordable housing for low to moderate income residents by fostering strategic relationships with other agencies.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart Community Service and the most unlike its peers is Tides Center. 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 31 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.4%1/264

the rest of the field

1,280/14,098

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

171 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

165/171

Grantees still filing

134/171

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,915,793Human Services$2,238,753Food & Nutrition$1,390,205Education$300,402Arts & Culture$290,766Religion$281,944Housing & Shelter$170,853

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.

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.

Atkinson FoundationCA88.5× affinity43 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atkinson Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Family Giving Tree · Sunlight Giving · United Way of the Bay Area · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Silicon Valley 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 organisation SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY 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

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

0get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: DOELGER SENIOR EMERGENCY DISTRIBUTION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~8183 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 942844797 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on DOELGER SENIOR EMERGENCY DISTRIBUTION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8183 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 66% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley?

Find your warmest path to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

171 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley?

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SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

171 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Second Harvest of Silicon Valley?

More from the funding graph