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The Family Giving Tree

By inspiring community kindness, generosity, and volunteerism. THE FAMILY GIVING TREE fulfills exact holiday wishes and provides backpacks filled with school supplies to those in need.

$2.4M
Granted FY2021
7
Itemized grants FY2021
7
Organizations funded FY2021
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Itemized, FY2021
$232k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2021
$27,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$88,476
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$3.2M

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
One East Palo Alto$88,47617%
Arriba Juntos$50,00071%
Palo Alto Community Child Care$34,95010%
San Francisco City Impact$27,50070%
Happy House$13,000363%
Youth Utilizing Power and Praise Organization$10,200718%
East Side Heroes$7,9501n/a

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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.

Second Harvest of Silicon ValleyCA76× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Valley Health Foundation (Vhf) · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Tipping Point Community

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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How do I get to The Family Giving Tree?

Find your warmest path to The Family Giving Tree through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Family Giving Tree

How much does The Family Giving Tree give?
The Family Giving Tree reported 7 itemized grants totaling $232,076, out of $2,406,863 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2021 IRS filing.
What does The Family Giving Tree fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2021, its largest causes are Education (38%), Human Services (36%), Employment (22%).
Who are The Family Giving Tree's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2021: One East Palo Alto ($88k), Arriba Juntos ($50k), Palo Alto Community Child Care ($35k).
Which funders back the same organizations as The Family Giving Tree?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, The Sobrato Family Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals.
Where is The Family Giving Tree based?
The Family Giving Tree 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 7 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $2.5M of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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