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South Lake Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2024–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Panorama Institute of Molecular Med | $15,000 |
| Atlantic Institute of Oriental Medi | $4,000 |
| Mountain View Los Altos High School Foun | $2,000 |
| Chinese Musicians Association of America | $2,000 |
| WESTERN BALLET COMPANY AND SCHOOL | $1,500 |
| San Jose Ballet Association | $1,000 |
| San Francisco Zoological Society | $1,000 |
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +2% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 2 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, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- CMCHINESE MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA CALIFORNIA YOUTH CHINESE SYMPHONY2× · 2024–2025 · $4k · revenue +20%
- MVMOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue +2%
- HSHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- ACAsian Cultural Foundationone grant, 2024 · $2k
- SUSINO US PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATIONgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +105%
- ZSZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGOone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
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.
Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art
See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
Provide Chinese Culture and Help to Advance social, economic well-being of Chinese American at Monterey Bay, California.
To introduce classic chinese culture to the residents of san francisco bay area; to promote ancient asian arts to san francisco bay area.
To present chamber music concerts in San Jose performed by top ensembles from the Bay Area, across America, and around the world. To enrich our audience experience through post-concert Q&As, program notes, and meet-the-composer…
The society is an international nonprofit, nonpartisan organization which connects people and institutions in asia and the world to build understanding, address challenges and maximize opportunities.
The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Zoological Society and the most unlike its peers is Atlantic Institute of Oriental Medicine Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 13 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 ATLANTIC INSTITUTE OF ORIENTAL MEDICINE INC ↗
- Who funds CHINESE MUSICIANS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA CALIFORNIA YOUTH CHINESE SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Asian Cultural Foundation ↗
- Who funds SINO US PERFORMING ARTS ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 South Lake 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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