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Speaker 2023 Inaugural Fund

Conduct research and advance initiatives that improve public health, education, and economic opportunity across California.

$505k
Granted FY2023
14
Grants FY2023
1
States reached
$125k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2023 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k11 grants · $280k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
$25,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$86k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Salinas Valley Health Foundation$25,000
Marthas Kitchen$25,000
Organizacion En California de Lider$25,000
San Juan Home and School Club$25,000
Community Solutions for Children Fa$25,000
REACH San Benito Parks Foundation$25,000
Corral de Tierra Rotary Charities F$25,000
Community Food Bank of San Benito C$25,000
Community Foundation for San Benito$25,000
Jovenes de Antano$25,000
02The need
02

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY23–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%Marthas Kitchen: $25k → 8%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.
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 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
Central California Food Bank

Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…

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
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
4
Community Food Bank Inc

To ensure our communities are healthy and hunger-free today, tomorrow, and always.

Food & Nutrition
5
Foodbank of Santa Barbara County Inc

To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…

Food & Nutrition
6
Yolo Food Bank

The mission of yolo food bank is to make yolo county a thriving community where everyone has the resources they need to experience health, prosperity, and a high quality of life. Yolo Food bank durably increases food and nutrition security…

Food & Nutrition
7
Community Impact Central Valley

To deliver comprehensive health and human service programs that improve the health and well-being of under-served california residents.

Health
8
Clinica De Salud Del Valle De Salinas

Clinica de Salud del Valle de Salinas (CSVS) is dedicated to providing access to quality comprehensive health care to men, women and children with an emphasis on farm worker families and the agricultural community.

Health
9
Community Initiatives for Collective Impact

Our mission is to join diverse people, ideas, and resources to address the most pressing social and environmental justice priorities. We believe that the community concerns of Californias San Joaquin Valley (SJV) can only be addressed if…

Community Improvement
10
Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF) connects people, ideas and resources to ensure equity and opportunity for all.

Philanthropy
11
Valley Health Team Inc

Valley Health Team, Inc. was established in 1973 for the purpose of providing accessible comprehensive, quality primary health care and additional services to the people in the communities we serve in a culturally and linguistically…

Health
12
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley

To realize our vision of a hunger free community we will provide more food, healthy food and better access to food. we will leverage our own resources and also work with partners in the community.

Food & Nutrition
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County; the most unlike its peers is El Teatro Campesino. 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 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. 10 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

El Teatro Campesino: $125,000 · OtherEl Teatro CampesinoHabitat for Humanity Stanislaus County: $50,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity Stanislaus CountyREACH SAN BENITO FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherREACH SAN BENITO FOUNDATIONCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS: $25,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALSSAN JUAN HOME & SCHOOL CLUB: $25,000 · OtherSAN JUAN HOME & SCHOOL CLUBCORRAL DE TIERRA ROTARY CHARITIES FUND: $25,000 · OtherCORRAL DE TIERRA ROTARY CHARITIES FUNDJovenes de Antano: $25,000 · OtherJovenes de AntanoSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $50,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARV…Dolores Huerta Action Fund: $30,000 · Civil RightsMARTHA'S KITCHEN: $25,000 · Human ServicesSALINAS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY: $25,000 · PhilanthropyOrganizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc: $25,000 · EmploymentCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SAN BENITO COUNTY: $25,000 · Education
Other$300,000Food & Nutrition$50,000Civil Rights$30,000Human Services$25,000Health$25,000Philanthropy$25,000Employment$25,000Education$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEl Teatro Campesino: $125,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDolores Huerta Action Fund: $30,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetMARTHA'S KITCHEN: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSALINAS VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR SAN BENITO COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS FOR CHILDREN FAMILIES AND INDIVIDUALS: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOrganizacion en California de Lideres Campesinas Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD BANK OF SAN BENITO COUNTY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Sunlight GivingMonterey Peninsula Fo…Community Foundation …The James Irvine Foun…The David and Lucile …Silicon Valley Commun…Network for GoodVanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Sunlight GivingCA19.8× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sunlight Giving · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation for San Benito County · The James Irvine Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Speaker 2023 Inaugural Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Speaker 2023 Inaugural Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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.

    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 14 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient (grants abroad are filed by region only, and grants under $5,000 are not itemized), so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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