· Public charity
Silicon Valley De-Bug
Silicon Valley De-Bug is a grassroots community organization based in San Jose, California comprised of young people and families from disadvantaged communities coming together to give voice to our typically unseen and unheard experiences through education, training, and media production.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 16 grants below total $559,250 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $780,272 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $221,022 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $340k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $211k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice | $110,000 |
| We Resolve | $51,000 |
| Project South | $50,250 |
| Communities In Partnership | $40,000 |
| Pillars of the Community | $30,000 |
| Praxis Project | $30,000 |
| California Coalition for Women Prisoners co Network on Women in Prison | $30,000 |
| Starting Over Inc | $30,000 |
| DayOneNotDayTwo | $30,000 |
| Movement Alliance Project | $30,000 |
| Charitable Ventures of OC | $30,000 |
| Amelia Ann Adams Whole LIfe Center | $30,000 |
| Rich Family Ministries | $20,000 |
| Community Shares Inc | $20,000 |
| Tides Advocacy Fund | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $308k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — 6 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k 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
- RFRICH FAMILY MINISTRIES2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +24% · 40% of their budget
Communities In Partnership2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +5%- POPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- HBHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCEone grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue -4%
- CFCitizens for Prison Reformgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +31%
- REROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +27%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Praxis Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Reality Speaking Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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.
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 COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ ↗
- Who funds RICH FAMILY MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Communities In Partnership ↗
- Who funds PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds We Resolve ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SHARES INC ↗
- Who funds Citizens for Prison Reform ↗
- Who funds Dayonenotdaytwo ↗
- Who funds Network on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PRAXIS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STARTING OVER INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds REALITY SPEAKING INC ↗
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: NEO Philanthropy Inc · The California Endowment · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Tides Center · The California Wellness Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Silicon Valley De-Bug 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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