· Public charity
Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation
To administer funds to organizations which address the needs of the working and indigent poor in southern california, the san francisco bay area, and humboldt county.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k45 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY | $100,000 |
| WESTSIDE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| FAMILY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM | $100,000 |
| LA LUZ CENTER | $60,000 |
| VIETNAMESE AMERICAN CANCER FOUNDATION DBA VITAL ACCESS CARE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| THE ELI HOME INC | $60,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF THE INLAND EMPIRE | $60,000 |
| CENTRO DEL PUEBLO MOVIMIENTO INDIGENA MIGRANTE | $60,000 |
| VICTOR VALLEY DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC | $60,000 |
| TEEN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $57,500 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND FBO PARENTING FOR LIBERATION | $55,000 |
| KHERUT | $52,500 |
| CHILDREN'S FUND INC | $50,000 |
| TIME FOR CHANGE FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LUTHERAN SOCIAL SERVICES OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $50,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $5.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
164 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 131 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M 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
- LALEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY9× · 2017–2025 · $415k · revenue +221%
- FAFamily Assistance Program4× · 2019–2025 · $330k · revenue +270%
ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES8× · 2017–2025 · $319k · revenue +214%
Funded once
- BIBANANAS INCORPORATEDone grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue +17%
- IVIMPERIAL VALLEY FOOD BANK FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue 0% · 40% of their budget
- EOEAST OAKLAND COMMUNITY PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $60k · revenue +2%
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.
Casa is a refuge, providing protection and education for people caught in the cylces of domestic violence, sexual assault and child assault. Casa is a healing community where women and children can receive the nurturing and support…
Address the homeless crisis in California.
Consejo brings healing, health, and hope to communities through holistic, culturally, and linguistically competent behavioral health services and advocacy.
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.
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.
Hope Solutions provides permanent affordable housing coupled with well-executed support services to people who are homeless or at risk to become homeless in Contra Costa County. Support services are individualized for each person or family…
The mission is to end relationship and sexual violence by being a catalyst for caring communities and social justice. the vision is for all people to live full, free, expressive, and empowered lives in a safe, healthy, vibrant, and…
The mission of mariposa women and family center is to help women and families make positive changes in their lives.
The mission of the Samaritan Center-Simi Valley is to offer people experiencing housing and food insecurity supportive services essential to human dignity.
The Organization provides shelter, meals, clothing and counseling for victims of domestic violence, housing crisis, and/or poverty.
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.
The mission of Westside Community Services is to provide high quality, family-centered, culturally competent behavioral health and human services for the residents of the city and county of San Francisco.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Forward and the most unlike its peers is Canticle Farm. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
287 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 287 of the 296 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 LEGAL AID OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Family Assistance Program ↗
- Who funds ACCESS CALIFORNIA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Fresno County Economic Opportunities Commission ↗
- Who funds Westside Community Improvement Assn ↗
- Who funds INTERVAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Valley Family Center ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Society of St Vincent de Paul District Council of Sonoma County Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds Project Access Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARITABLE VENTURES OF ORANGE COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Casa Cornelia Legal Services ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA ↗
- Who funds THOMAS HOUSE TEMPORARY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds STARFISH STORIES INC ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND CATHOLIC WORKER ↗
- Who funds WOMENS TRANSITIONAL LIVING CENTER INC RADIANT FUTURES ↗
- Who funds LAURA'S HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AVARY INC ALTERNATIVE VENTURES FOR AT RISK YOUTH ↗
- Who funds LIFEWORKS OF SONOMA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CASA YOUTH SHELTER ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF ORANGE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition ↗
- Who funds THE ELI HOME INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON THE SHELTERLESS ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES HOUSE OF RUTH ↗
- Who funds The Jewish Community Free Clinic ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds Canticle Farm ↗
- Who funds REACH FOR HOME ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds VERITY-COMPASSION SAFETY SUPPORT A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COMMISSION ↗
- Who funds SERVE THE PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds CASA TERESA INC ↗
- Who funds Particular Council of the Redwood Region of the Society of St Vincent de Paul ↗
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: St Joseph Health System Foundation · Orange County's United Way · Orange County Community Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · O L Halsell Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Weingart Foundation · Oneoc · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · California Foundation for Stronger Communities · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · McNabb 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 Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare 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.
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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