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· Public charity
Speaker 2023 Inaugural Fund
Conduct research and advance initiatives that improve public health, education, and economic opportunity across California.
$505k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants
1
Communities
$125k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 14 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $10k–50k11 grants · $280k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$61k
Total assets
Largest grants
- El Teatro Campesino$125,000
- Habitat for Humanity Merced Stanisl$50,000
- Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz$50,000
- Dolores Huerta Action Fund$30,000
- Community Food Bank of San Benito C$25,000
- Salinas Valley Health Foundation$25,000
- Community Foundation for San Benito$25,000
- Jovenes de Antano$25,000
- Community Solutions for Children Fa$25,000
- San Juan Home and School Club$25,000
- Corral de Tierra Rotary Charities F$25,000
- Organizacion En California de Lider$25,000
- Marthas Kitchen$25,000
- REACH San Benito Parks Foundation$25,000
02The need
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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.
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Your human-services grants (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Central California Food Bank
Distribute food to the hungry in fresno, madera, tulare, kern and kings county.
Food & Nutrition
2
Santa Cruz Community Farmers Market
To serve our community by providing direct access to sustainable sources of fresh produce and other unique foods, and provide education about food issues, both local and beyond.
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3
San Benito Agricultural Land Trust
The mission of the san benito agricultural land trust is to conserve regionally significant lands that sustain productive agriculture, preserve open space and maintain the rural character of the county.
Environment
4
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc
To end hunger and transform the health of Santa Barbara County through good nutrition by providing nourishment, acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies (10 million pounds per year) and giving education to solve…
Food & Nutrition
5
California Farmland Trust
The mission of the California Farmland Trust is to help farmers protect the best farmland in the world.
Environment
6
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano
Leading the fight to end hunger, in partnership with our cmty. and in svcs. of our neighbors in need.
Food & Nutrition
7
Everyones Harvest
Everyone's Harvest's mission is to provide access to healthy, affordable fruits and vegetables through certified farmers markets and community food programs.
Food & Nutrition
8
San Benito County Community Services
To pursue affordable housing for low to moderate income residents by fostering strategic relationships with other agencies.
Housing & Shelter
9
San Francisco Food Bank
To end hunger in san francisco and marin county.
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10
Cabrillo College Foundation
To provide student scholarships, increase student success, and support of academic programs.
Education
11
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley
Mission: lead our community to ensure that anyone who needs a healthy meal can get one.
Food & Nutrition
12
Central Valley Community Foundation
We connect capital and communities for a just and thriving Central Valley.
Philanthropy
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Food Bank of San Benito County and the most unlike its peers is Dolores Huerta Action Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network
10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$300,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Civil Rights$30,000Human Services$25,000Health$25,000Employment$25,000Philanthropy$25,000Education$25,000
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 El Teatro Campesino ↗
- Who funds Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity Merced Stanisl ↗
- Who funds Dolores Huerta Action Fund ↗
- Who funds Marthas Kitchen ↗
- Who funds Salinas Valley Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Organizacion En California de Lider ↗
- Who funds Community Solutions for Children Fa ↗
- Who funds Community Foundation for San Benito ↗
- Who funds Community Food Bank of San Benito C ↗
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.
Community Foundation ForCA18.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation For · Sunlight Giving · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation Speaker 2023 Inaugural Fund 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.
2025
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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: El Teatro Campesino.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~11 months of operating runway; revenue held over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 942214186 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on El Teatro Campesino, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 11 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue held over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 29% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Speaker 2023 Inaugural Fund?
Find your warmest path to Speaker 2023 Inaugural Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines