· Private foundation
Small World Foundation (Previously Known as Bright Star Foundation)
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of SMALL WORLD FOUNDATION (PREVIOUSLY KNOWN AS BRIGHT STAR FOUNDATION)’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $144k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION (IVCHF) | $24,500 |
| SHARKS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| THE LUCIOUS BATEMAN FOUNDATION | $17,030 |
| NCGA FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| SAN JOSE SPORTS AUTHORITY | $10,000 |
| TOSCA - THE ORESTIMBA SCHOLARSHIP COMM ASSN | $10,000 |
| STROKE AWARENESS FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH T1D MOUNTAIN WEST | $10,000 |
| YOUTH ON COURSE | $10,000 |
| THE BRITT GEORGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS OF SUTRO TUNNEL CHARITY | $10,000 |
| SERVICES FOR SENIORS INC HEART OF THE VALLEY | $5,000 |
| ACHIEVE TAHOE | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF WESTERN NEVADA | $5,000 |
| THE FIRST TEE OF THE TRI VALLEY | $2,500 |
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 (FY19–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 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, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- IVINCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $112k · revenue +602%
- SJSAN JOSE CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATER5× · 2020–2024 · $103k · revenue +3%
- SAStroke Awareness Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $85k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCILgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +82%
- AVALMADEN VALLEY WOMANS CLUBone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -94%
- CFCCIM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
The mission of the scga junior golf foundation is to develop an inclusive golf community that enables kids to thrive on and beyond the course. we believe that every kid in southern california, no matter their circumstance, should have the…
The mission of the Club is to inspire and enable all youth, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens. Boys & Girls Club of North Lake Tahoe has been a cornerstone of the…
Youth sports
The Truckee Trails Foundation (TTF) is working towards a system of trails and bikeways in and around Truckee, California that will connect people and places, reduce our community's dependence on automobiles, and improve our physical,…
To benefit the university of california santa cruz.
Santa catalina school exists to develop in each student a striving for excellence, a maturing awareness of moral and spiritual values, a sense of responsible purpose, and a determination to serve the world with courage, grace, and…
It is the mission of srcysc to provide the youth of riverside county with equal opportunities for those of all genders and ages to engage and take active part in personal fitness, teamwork, athletic competition and self esteem building…
To inspire and empower all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring adults.
Our mission is to help make santa clara university athletics relevant by providing a first-class, "big time," division 1 experience.
The Solano Community Foundation strengthens Solano County by advancing equity, supporting nonprofit resilience, and expanding access to philanthropy. We serve as a community leader, responsive grantmaker, and trusted partner for donors who…
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada and the most unlike its peers is The Brandenburg Family Foundation. 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 24 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) — 11% of your grantees by number, and just 24% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 74 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
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 INCLINE VILLAGE COMMUNITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATER ↗
- Who funds Stroke Awareness Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE SHARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Boys and Girls Clubs of Western Nevada ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVE TAHOE ↗
- Who funds LUCIOUS BATEMAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JOSE SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ALMADEN VALLEY WOMANS CLUB ↗
- Who funds LOVE FOR KENYA ↗
- Who funds THE BEN HOGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SUTRO TUNNEL CHARITY ↗
- Who funds TAHOE FOREST HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRITT GEORGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NCGA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRANDENBURG FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEVADA COUNTY SHERIFFS SEARCH & RESCUE I ↗
- Who funds KROENKE SPORTS CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF ARIZONA 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: The Brandenburg Family Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Tahoe Community Foundation · Robert V and Laraine M Sanford Charitable Foundation · The Kirkorian Family Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Small World Foundation (Previously Known as Bright Star 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.
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
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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