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Specialrelativity Education Foundation at a glance

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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
2
States reached
$161k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2018 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under $10k6 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $161k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KQEDORG$161,083
SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION$34,565
COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS NEW MEXICO$20,000
JOHANSON & YAU ACCOUNTANCY CORPORATION$20,000
TEEN SUCCESS$15,000
MONTALVO ARTS CENTER$10,000
FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH$8,000
NEW TEACHER CENTER$5,000
THINK NEW MEXICO$5,000
SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL$2,500
COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM$2,048
FUNDACION HECHOS DE AMOR$1,000
02The need
03

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 (FY18–18, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, 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%THINK NEW MEXICO: $5k → 12%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$245k · 5 repeat orgs$129k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
9

Total granted

$245k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+67%

Still filing today

80%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Arts & CultureEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesEnvironmentHousing & ShelterOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • MA
    MONTALVO ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +97%
  • ST
    SHINE TOGETHER INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $25k · revenue +25%
  • SF
    SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD
    2× · 2017–2018 · $9k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • SV
    SILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURES
    one grant, 2017 · $20k
  • BM
    BRING ME A BOOK FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue -93%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its 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
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
2
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
3
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
4
Center for the Future of Arizona

Bringing arizonans together to create a stronger and brighter future for our state.

Community Improvement
5
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
6
United Way of North Central New Mexico

Uwncnm's mission is to connect people to opportunities and services to equitably improve lives and strengthen communities. that is done through direct service programs, community investment (grant making), community outreach (convening and…

Philanthropy
7
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - SV2

Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact…

Philanthropy
8
Leadership New Mexico

Strengthening new mexico by educating and connecting diverse leaders through experiential learning programs and activities.

Arts & Culture
9
Foundation for a College Education

Fce's mission is to increase the number of first-generation, low-income students of color from east palo alto, ca and surrounding communities who graduate with a degree from a four-year college or university. fce was founded out of a…

Education
10
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
11
California Competes

Established in 2011, our mission is to help transform the state's higher education system into an engine of economic opportunity that empowers all californians, particularly those from underserved communities, to achieve their full…

Education
12
Santa Barbara Partners in Education

Our mission is to empower students for the world ahead through business, school, and community collaboration. we do this by creating and supporting inspiring, skill-building opportunities for youth along their tk-12 journey.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Think New Mexico; the most unlike its peers is Computer History Museum. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 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. 15 of the 21 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KQEDORG: $171,083 · OtherKQEDORGSILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURES: $20,000 · OtherSILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURESJOHANSON & YAU ACCOUNTANCY CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherJOHANSON & YAU ACCOUNTANCY CORPORATION+5 more: $13,000 · Other+5 moreSUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $34,565 · Human ServicesSUNDAY FRIE…THINK NEW MEXICO: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHINK NEW M…COMMUNITIES IN SCHOOLS OF NEW MEXICO: $20,000 · EducationCOMMUNITIE…NEW TEACHER CENTER: $15,000 · EducationNEW TEACHE…+1 more: $1,000 · EducationMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $25,000 · Arts & CultureMONTALVO A…SANTA FE CHAMBER MUSIC FESTIVAL LTD: $8,700 · Arts & CultureSANTA FE C…COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $2,048 · Arts & CultureCOMPUTER H…SHINE TOGETHER INC: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHINE TOG…FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC: $8,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRESH LIF…PROJECT CORNERSTONE INC: $3,000 · EnvironmentNEW DOOR VENTURES FKA GOLDEN GATE COMMUNITY INC: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterWorking Partnerships USA: $225 · Health
Other$224,083Human Services$39,565Education$36,000Arts & Culture$35,748Youth Development$33,000Environment$3,000Housing & Shelter$2,500Health$225

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

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
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.

The David and Lucile …Silicon Valley Commun…The Sobrato Family Fo…The James and Rebecca…The George and Judy M…The George and Judy M…Destination Home SV c…The William & Flora H…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Marin Community Found…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Specialrelativity Education Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Specialrelativity Education Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 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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