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Special Olympics Northern California Inc

Special olympics provides athletic opportunities to children and adults with intellectual disabilities to instill the confidence needed to succeed in life.

$1.1M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
12
Itemized grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
54%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$1.0M
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$10,900
Largest grant, FY2024
$792,484
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$17M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 54% of the organizations Special Olympics Northern California Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $206k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23
Recreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving12$1.0M8%
FY202313$363k54%
FY202211$298k18%
FY20219$170k67%
FY202010$166k0%
FY201914$404k7%
FY201813$390k23%
FY201712$370kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$2.3MRecreation & Sports$862k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Special Olympics Nevada$862,484230%
Sfusd$486,0008n/a
Contra Costa County Office of Education$289,5064n/a
Clark County School District$180,0424n/a
Dublin Unified School District$120,6674n/a
Santa Rosa City Schools$86,1008n/a
Palo Alto Unified School District$18,2503n/a
West Contra Costa Unified School District$16,5003n/a
Rocketship Education$6,00010%
Hayward Unified School District$5,5001n/a

Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.

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.

Project Lead the Way IncIN13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Project Lead the Way Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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.

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About Special Olympics Northern California Inc

How much does Special Olympics Northern California Inc give?
Special Olympics Northern California Inc reported 12 itemized grants totaling $1,042,009, out of $1,103,834 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Special Olympics Northern California Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (73%), Recreation & Sports (27%).
Who are Special Olympics Northern California Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Special Olympics Nevada ($862k), Sfusd ($486k), Contra Costa County Office of Education ($290k).
Does Special Olympics Northern California Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Special Olympics Northern California Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Project Lead the Way Inc, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST).
Where is Special Olympics Northern California Inc based?
Special Olympics Northern California Inc is based in CA.

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 32 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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