· Private foundation
Stella B Gross Charitable Trust
Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2026
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $210k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $70k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AFRICAN DIASPORA NETWORK | $70,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES | $40,000 |
| SAN JOSE SPORTS AUTHORITY | $30,000 |
| CRISTO REY SAN JOSE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREP | $15,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| CHILD ADVOCATES | $15,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY | $10,000 |
| LADIES OF CHARITY | $10,000 |
| UNITED VETERANS COUNCIL | $10,000 |
| SAN JOSE AUX L PACKARD CHLDRENS HOSP | $10,000 |
| VIA SERVICES | $10,000 |
| OUR CITY FOREST | $5,000 |
| ST FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–26, $55k) 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +3% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2026, 12 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (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 FY2026, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE6× · 2021–2026 · $148k · revenue +34%
- CRCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL6× · 2021–2026 · $130k · revenue +54%
- LOLADIES OF CHARITY5× · 2021–2026 · $50k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- TFTOWER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $30k
- VHVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue +231%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
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.
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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…
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The student union of san jose state university (the "student union") is an auxiliary organization in the california state university ("csu") system. the purposes of the student union are to provide cultural, educational, social and…
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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.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
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…
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.
Destination: home's mission is to make homelessness rare, brief, and non-recurring in santa clara county.
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How this is measured
27 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 27 of the 51 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 African Diaspora Network ↗
- 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 HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds CHILD ADVOCATES INC ↗
- Who funds JW HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE SAN JOSE SPORTS AUTHORITY ↗
- Who funds OUR CITY FOREST ↗
- Who funds Informed Parents of Silicon Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- 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 HOPE SERVICES ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Stella B Gross Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stella B Gross Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
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