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Specialrelativity Education Foundation

Its FY2018 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$284k
Granted FY2018
12
Grants FY2018
12
Organizations funded FY2018
58%
First-time grantees FY2018
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Median grant, FY2018
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2018
$161,083
Organizations funded a year
12 to 14
FY2017 to FY2018
States reached, FY2018
2
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2018, 58% of the organizations Specialrelativity Education Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY201812$284k58%
FY201714$90kn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Arts & Culture$205kEducation$41kHuman Services$41kCommunity Improvement$40kYouth Development$25kCrime & Legal$8kHousing & Shelter$4kEnvironment$3kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2018, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($218k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Specialrelativity Education Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSunday Friends Foundation: $34,565 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetMontalvo Association: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetShine Together Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCommunities in Schools of New Mexico: $20,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetNew Teacher Center: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSanta Fe Chamber Music Festival Ltd: $8,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBring Me a Book Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetThink New Mexico: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetProject Cornerstone Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetNew Door Ventures Fka Golden Gate Community Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetComputer History Museum: $2,048 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLifemoves: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA: $225 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 13.

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.

The David and Lucile Packard FoundationCA19.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The James and Rebecca Morgan Charitable Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation II · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Marin Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment 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 Specialrelativity Education Foundation

How much does Specialrelativity Education Foundation give?
Specialrelativity Education Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $284,196 in its FY2018 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2018.
What does Specialrelativity Education Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2018, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (55%), Education (11%), Human Services (11%).
Who are Specialrelativity Education Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2018: Sunday Friends Foundation ($35k), Montalvo Association ($25k), Shine Together Inc ($25k).
Does Specialrelativity Education Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2018, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Specialrelativity Education Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Specialrelativity Education Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Sobrato Family Foundation.
Where is Specialrelativity Education Foundation based?
Specialrelativity Education Foundation 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 21 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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