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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.

$780k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Crime & Legal$663kCivil Rights$80kHuman Services$60kPhilanthropy$30kHealth$30kCommunity Improvement$30kArts & Culture$18k
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 16 grants below total $559,250, the rows itemized in this filing. The $780,272 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $221,022 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $8k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $340k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $211k
$30,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice$110,000
We Resolve$51,000
Project South$50,250
Communities In Partnership$40,000
Praxis Project$30,000
Pillars of the Community$30,000
DayOneNotDayTwo$30,000
Starting Over Inc$30,000
Movement Alliance Project$30,000
Charitable Ventures of OC$30,000
Amelia Ann Adams Whole LIfe Center$30,000
California Coalition for Women Prisoners co Network on Women in Prison$30,000
Community Shares Inc$20,000
Tides Advocacy Fund$20,000
Rich Family Ministries$20,000
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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Reuniting Family Bail Fund: $8k → 7%HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $70k → 10%COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH: $30k → 10%PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $30k → 11%Amelia Ann Adams Whole LIfe Center: $30k → 12%Pillars of the Community: $30k → 11%Communities United for Restorative Youth Justice: $110k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
MI
PA
CA
MD
TN
NC
LA
GA
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$439k · 6 repeat orgs$442k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
3

Total granted

$439k
$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $309k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalArts & CultureReligionPhilanthropyOther
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

  • RF
    RICH FAMILY MINISTRIES
    2× · 2023–2024 · $80k · revenue +24% · 40% of their budget
  • Communities In Partnership
    2× · 2023–2024 · $70k · revenue +5%
  • PO
    PILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $60k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • HB
    HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE
    one grant, 2023 · $70k · revenue -4%
  • CF
    Citizens for Prison Reformgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +31%
  • RE
    ROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $18k · revenue +27%
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
Prison Policy Initiative

The Organization challenges over-criminalizationand mass incarceration through research, advocacyand organizing.

Civil Rights
2
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…

Human Services
3
Oregon Justice Network

Oregon Justice Network is an alliance built and staffed by criminal legal system impacted people advocating for the well-being of people affected or at-risk of being affected by carceral systems. Our work centers around restorative…

Human Services
4
Community Resource Initiative

Full Picture Justice fights the death penalty and mitigates the harms of extreme sentencing through life history investigation, client advocacy, and community healing.

Crime & Legal
5
Peoples Advocacy Institute

Peoples Advocacy Institute (PAI) is a non-profit community resource, training and capacity building incubator for transformation justice in the South.

Arts & Culture
6
Forward Together

Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…

Health
7
Root & Rebound

Root & rebound's mission is to restore power and resources to the families and communities most harmed by mass incarceration through legal advocacy, public education, policy reform and litigation model rooted in the needs and expertise of…

Crime & Legal
8
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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9
Dignity and Power Now

Dignity and Power Now (DPN) is a Los Angeles based grassroots organization that fights for the dignity and power of all incarcerated people, their families, and communities. DPNs mission is to build a Black and Brown led abolitionist…

Philanthropy
10
Communities Rise

Communities Rise fosters movements to build power in communities impacted by systemic oppression. To create an equitable system, we pursue cross-sector collaboration, and provide capacity building and legal services for community…

Crime & Legal
11
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
12
Communities of Belonging

We build connected communities through restorative homes, community conversations, and holistic reentry support that integrate marginalized populations as a vital part of the whole.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities in Partnership; 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.
04the grantee network

20 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.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
11/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $140,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOU…HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $70,000 · Human ServicesHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCEPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $60,250 · Human ServicesPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITYAMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE CENTER: $30,000 · Human ServicesAMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE CENTER+1 more: $8,000 · Human ServicesWe Resolve: $51,000 · OtherWe ResolvePROJECT SOUTH INC: $50,250 · OtherPROJECT SOUTH INCNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $30,000 · OtherNetwork on Women in Prison…TIDES ADVOCACY: $20,000 · OtherTIDES ADVOCACYTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $30,000 · OtherTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INCSTARTING OVER INC: $30,000 · OtherSTARTING OVER INCCommunities In Partnership: $70,000 · Community ImprovementCommunities …CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $30,000 · Community ImprovementCHARITABLE V…Citizens for Prison Reform: $45,000 · Crime & LegalCitizens f…Dayonenotdaytwo: $38,573 · Crime & LegalDayonenotd…RICH FAMILY MINISTRIES: $80,250 · ReligionRICH FAMI…COMMUNITY SHARES INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY…PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyPLAYERS P…MOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $30,000 · Arts & CultureROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $17,900 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$308,250Other$211,250Community Improvement$100,000Crime & Legal$83,573Religion$80,250Philanthropy$80,000Arts & Culture$47,900

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 budgetCOMMUNITIES UNITED FOR RESTORATIVE YOUTH JUSTICE DBA CURYJ: $140,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetRICH FAMILY MINISTRIES: $80,250 over 2y, 40% of budgetHAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE: $70,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCommunities In Partnership: $70,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPILLARS OF THE COMMUNITY: $60,250 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWe Resolve: $51,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetPROJECT SOUTH INC: $50,250 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SHARES INC: $50,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetCitizens for Prison Reform: $45,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetDayonenotdaytwo: $38,573 over 2y, 14% of budgetNetwork on Women in Prison dba Legal Services for Prisoners w Children: $30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PRAXIS PROJECT INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOVEMENT ALLIANCE PROJECT: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMELIA ANN ADAMS WHOLE LIFE CENTER: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSTARTING OVER INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTIDES ADVOCACY: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROOTEAD ENRICHMENT CENTER: $17,900 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetREALITY SPEAKING INC: $8,000 over 1y, 11% 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.

NEO Philanthropy IncThe California Endowm…The Heising-Simons Fo…Tides CenterThe California Wellne…Amalgamated Charitabl…Silicon Valley Commun…Tides FoundationNational Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
NEO Philanthropy IncNY17.3× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Silicon Valley De-Bug?

    Find your warmest path to Silicon Valley De-Bug 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 20 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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