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Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food.

$191M
Granted FY2025still arriving
29
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$19k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Food & Nutrition$7.8MYouth Development$56kHousing & Shelter$42kHuman Services$41kEducation$24kHealth$240
02FY2025 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 29 grants below total $103,417, the rows itemized in this filing. The $190,926,061 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $190,822,644 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 $10k28 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
$1,682
Median grant
1
States reached
$321M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROSSROAD CHURCH$18,840
EMBASSY CHRISTIAN CENTER$8,197
AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR (ALAS)$7,941
CHURCH OF CHRIST$7,779
OPERATION SHARE$7,119
FRIENDSHIP CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST$6,493
VERBO FAMILY SERVICES$5,986
STAND4$5,700
FIRST APOSTOLIC CHURCH SAN JOSE$5,022
REDWOOD CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$4,906
MARTHA'S KITCHEN$4,047
GENERAL PERSHING$3,664
LIFEMOVES - JULIAN STREET INN$2,170
MACEDONIA CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST$2,100
CAMINAR - PROJECT NINETY$1,682
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 (FY20–25, $2.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YMCA OF SV - CENTRAL YMCA: $18k → 8%YMCA OF SV - CENTRAL YMCA: $10k → 8%YMCA OF SV - CENTRAL YMCA: $10k → 8%YMCA - SAN MATEO COUNTY LIBRARY: $6k → 7%SVDP ST MATTHEW: $2k → 7%SVDP SAN MATEO AREA CONFERENCE: $3k → 7%SVDP ST ANTHONY MISSION: $48k → 7%SVDP ST CHARLES: $16k → 7%SOUTH COUNTY COMPASSION CENTER: $7k → 8%GENERAL PERSHING: $4k → 7%AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR (ALAS): $8k → 7%PACIFICA RESOURCE CENTER: $40k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $8k → 7%PACIFICA RESOURCE CENTER: $26k → 7%LIGHTHOUSE MINISTRY LHM: $82k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SCC- JOHN XXIII & EASTSIDE CTR: $67k → 8%PACIFICA RESOURCE CENTER: $13k → 7%PACIFICA RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $2k → 7%COASTSIDE HOPE: $41k → 7%COASTSIDE HOPE: $15k → 7%DALY CITY PARTNERSHIP: $54k → 7%DALY CITY PARTNERSHIP: $51k → 7%DALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATIVE: $50k → 7%NUESTRA CASA DE EAST PALO ALTO: $22k → 8%SUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATION: $97k → 8%NUESTRA CASA DE EAST PALO ALTO: $2k → 8%SUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATION: $42k → 8%COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $7k → 8%SUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $215k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $207k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $154k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $100k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES - WASHINGTON UNITED YOUTH CTR: $84k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $55k → 8%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $18k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $4k → 8%MUSLIM SISTERS HELPING: $75k → 8%MUSLIM SISTERS HELPING: $65k → 8%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $252k → 8%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $35k → 8%STAND4: $6k → 8%SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $100k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $35k → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES SCC- JOHN XXIII & EASTSIDE CTR: $50k → 8%RAHIMA FOUNDATION: $55k → 8%RAHIMA FOUNDATION: $18k → 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.7M · 77 repeat orgs$1.2M to everyone else

77 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

77
36

Total granted

$6.7M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
+56%

Still filing today

69%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesFood & NutritionEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • MK
    MARTHA'S KITCHEN
    7× · 2019–2025 · $764k · revenue +152%
  • SAMARITAN HOUSE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $450k · revenue +153%
  • SC
    SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    7× · 2019–2025 · $387k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKSgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $524k · revenue +28%
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY SERVICES
    3× · 2023–2025 · $126k
  • SM
    SAN MATEO FOSTER CITY SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · $111k
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
The San Francisco Particular Council of the Society of St Vincent De Paul

The mission of the st. vincent de paul society of san francisco (svdp-sf) is to offer hope and service on a direct person-to-person basis, working to break the cycles of homelessness and domestic violence.

Human Services
2
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
3
Sun Street Centers

To prevent alcohol and drug addiction by offering education, prevention and recovery to individuals and families, regardless of income level.

Human Services
4
Sonoma Applied Village Services

Address the homeless crisis in California.

Housing & Shelter
5
Community Action Marin

We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.

Human Services
6
Union Station Homeless Services

We work to end homelessness through housing solutions, supportive services, and connection to community. we advocate for equitable and just systems that ensure all individuals and families will have a safe place they can call home.

Human Services
7
Community Action Board of Sc County Inc

To partner with the community to eliminate poverty.

Employment
8
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp

Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.

Housing & Shelter
9
Interim Inc

Interim, inc.'s mission is to provide services and affordable housing to supporting members of our community with mental illness in building productive and satisfying lives.

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10
Homeward Bound of Marin

Homeward Bound is the main provider of emergency shelter, supportive housing and services for people overcoming a crisis of homelessness in Marin County, California. Our mission of "opening doors to safety, dignity, hope, and…

Housing & Shelter
11
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.

—
12
Episcopal Community Services of San Francisco

Episcopal community services of san francisco (ecs) helps homeless and very low-income people every day and every night obtain the housing, jobs, shelter, and essential services each person needs to prevent and end homelessness.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunnyvale Community Services; the most unlike its peers is Parca House 4 Inc. 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

177 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
39
Early backer (in before they grew)
173/177
Grantees still filing
128/177
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAMARITAN HOUSE: $450,024 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSEThe Salvation Army: $268,850 · OtherThe Salvation ArmyFRIENDSHIP CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRIST: $209,963 · OtherFRIENDSHIP CHURCH OF GOD IN CHRISTCROSSROAD CALVARY CHAPEL: $178,852 · OtherHOLY FAMILY: $176,495 · OtherFRIENDLY BIBLE CHURCH: $176,458 · OtherANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH: $133,259 · OtherFAMILIA CRISTIANA VERBO: $126,650 · OtherNEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY SERVICES: $126,418 · OtherST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY: $124,801 · OtherSUPPORTERS OF DOELGER SENIOR CNTR INC: $117,757 · Other+63 more: $1,335,703 · Other+63 moreMARTHA'S KITCHEN: $764,018 · Human ServicesMARTHA'S KITCHENSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $387,373 · Human ServicesSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICESCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $201,306 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLAR…DALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATIVE: $159,583 · Human ServicesDALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP …SUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATION: $141,560 · Human ServicesSUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATIONMUSLIM SISTERS HELPING INC: $139,686 · Human ServicesMUSLIM SISTERS HELPING INCPacifica Resource Center: $89,267 · Human Services+18 more: $423,714 · Human Services+18 moreCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $524,244 · Food & NutritionCALIFORNIA ASSOCIA…LOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN: $318,817 · Food & NutritionLOAVES & FISHES FA…ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $262,887 · Food & NutritionECUMENICAL HUNGER …SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER: $67,475 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $56,968 · Food & Nutrition+4 more: $48,027 · Food & NutritionRIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $294,596 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,641 · Arts & CultureONE EAST PALO ALTO: $93,604 · EducationMARANATHA OUTREACH CENTER INC: $92,564 · EducationSAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $27,241 · EducationLAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13,754 · EducationInstitute for Human & Social Development: $13,096 · EducationSAN BRUNO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,543 · Education+1 more: $6,226 · EducationCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $232,574 · Religion+1 more: $1,140 · ReligionWEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC: $104,683 · Housing & ShelterABODE SERVICES: $20,094 · Housing & Shelter
Other$3,425,230Human Services$2,306,507Food & Nutrition$1,278,418Arts & Culture$300,237Education$257,028Religion$233,714Housing & Shelter$124,777

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMARTHA'S KITCHEN: $764,018 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $524,244 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $450,024 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES: $387,373 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN: $318,817 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetRIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION: $294,596 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $262,887 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES: $232,574 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $201,306 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetDALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATIVE: $159,583 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetSUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATION: $141,560 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetMUSLIM SISTERS HELPING INC: $139,686 over 3y, 47% of budgetST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY: $124,801 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetSUPPORTERS OF DOELGER SENIOR CNTR INC: $117,757 over 7y, 66% of budgetWEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC: $104,683 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetONE EAST PALO ALTO: $93,604 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetMARANATHA OUTREACH CENTER INC: $92,564 over 7y, 48% of budgetSAN JOSE CONSERVATION CORPS: $91,370 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPacifica Resource Center: $89,267 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $74,208 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRAHIMA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $73,563 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO INC: $71,524 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetWEHOPE: $67,579 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER: $67,475 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCOASTSIDE HOPE: $58,771 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $56,968 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO SENIOR CENTER: $50,240 over 7y, 25% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY: $43,613 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCALL PRIMROSE: $40,928 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC: $36,569 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER: $36,342 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetREDWOOD CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $28,615 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $27,241 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNuestra Casa de East Palo Alto: $24,437 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetABODE SERVICES: $20,094 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEALTH TRUST: $17,773 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $17,469 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR SAN MATEO COUNTY LIBRARIES: $14,888 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $14,838 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $13,754 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetInstitute for Human & Social Development: $13,096 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN BRUNO EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $10,543 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $10,209 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA: $9,871 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $7,941 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $7,432 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH COUNTY COMPASSION CENTER: $6,523 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetSUMMIT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $6,226 over 3y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds MARTHA'S KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds LOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN ↗
  • Who funds RIVER OF LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds CITYTEAM MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
  • Who funds DALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SUPPORT LIFE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MUSLIM SISTERS HELPING INC ↗
  • Who funds ANTIOCH BAPTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds ST FRANCIS CENTER OF REDWOOD CITY ↗
  • Who funds SUPPORTERS OF DOELGER SENIOR CNTR INC ↗
  • Who funds WEST VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds ONE EAST PALO ALTO ↗
  • Who funds MARANATHA OUTREACH CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN JOSE CONSERVATION CORPS ↗
  • Who funds Pacifica Resource Center ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds RAHIMA INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO INC ↗
  • Who funds WEHOPE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH COUNTY COMMUNITY SERVICES fka ST JOSEPHS FAMILY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds COASTSIDE HOPE ↗
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds EAST PALO ALTO SENIOR CENTER ↗

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.

The Sobrato Family FoundationCA84.8× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Second Harvest of Silicon Valley funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Second Harvest of Silicon Valley. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    40report 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
    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.

    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 122 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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