· Private foundation
Stella B Gross Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $373k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $70,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $32,500 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $27,500 |
| CRISTO REY SAN JOSE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREP | $25,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES | $22,500 |
| VIA SERVICES | $17,500 |
| TOWER FOUNDATION OF SJSU | $15,000 |
| SAN JOSE AUX L PACKARD CHLDRENS HOSP | $15,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK | $15,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA | $15,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY | $15,000 |
| UNITED VETERANS COUNCIL | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $128k · revenue +34%
- CRCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL5× · 2021–2025 · $105k · revenue +54%
- LOLADIES OF CHARITY4× · 2021–2025 · $40k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- TFTOWER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $30k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
- SHSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEYone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +8%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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.…
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…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Destination: home's mission is to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in santa clara county.
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…
Ciis is an institution of higher education that encourages an interdisciplinary approach to learning. over 1,700 students are enrolled in masters, doctoral, bachelor of arts completion programs, and certifications. ours is a mosaic of…
The mission of joint venture is to foster the health and vitality of silicon valley for all the people who live and work here. we pursue our mission by (1) providing data, research and analysis through our research arm, the institute for…
Coalition of employers with mission to build collective intelligence regarding corporate and employee benefits and to address international benefit issues from the perspective of multi-national employers.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
To advance the role, voice, and capacity of the nonprofit community so it can be a force for positive social change and support the creation of equitable, vibrant, and thriving communities.
Silicon valley international school's focus on inquiry and bilingualism empowers young minds to embrace complexity, think critically from multiple perspectives, and demonstrate integrity and sensitivity across cultures.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Jose State University Research Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kidpower Teenpower Fullpower International. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 49 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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 Catholic Charities San Bernardino & Riverside Counties ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE LIGHT TOWER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds LADIES OF CHARITY ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds JW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Informed Parents of Silicon Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) ↗
- Who funds OUR CITY FOREST ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GEOPontes Inc ↗
- Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY LIGHTS THEATER CO OF SAN JOSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Catholic Community Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Hugh Stuart Center Charitable Trust · The Valley Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Davidson Family Foundation · The Brandenburg Family Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · American Gift Fund · Ravizza Family Foundation · Mission City Community Fund
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 organization Stella B Gross Charitable Trust 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.
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 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.