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· Public charity
THE FAMILY GIVING TREE
Fulfill the wishes of children in need while inspiring philanthropy, kindness, and volunteerism
$2.4M
Granted FY2021
7
Grants
1
Communities
$88k
Largest
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 7 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
$27,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- ONE EAST PALO ALTO$88,476
- ARRIBA JUNTOS$50,000
- PALO ALTO COMMUNITY CHILD CARE$34,950
- SAN FRANCISCO CITY IMPACT$27,500
- COMMUNITY UNITED SAN JOSE - ALMA YOUTH CENTER$13,000
- YUPP ORG$10,200
- EAST SIDE HEROES$7,950
02The need
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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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY21–21, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your field
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.
1
Children's Council of San Francisco
Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.
Human Services
2
Unitedly
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Human Services
3
Child Care Coordinating Council
The Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County, Inc. (4Cs) connects and empowers families, educators, and child care providers with resources today for a stronger San Mateo County tomorrow.
Human Services
4
San Francisco Casa
San Francisco CASA (formerly San Francisco Court Appointed Special Advocates) transforms the lives of systems-involved and other vulnerable children, young adults and their families by providing consistent, caring volunteer advocates…
Civil Rights
5
Community Child Care Coordinating
4Cs exists to develop and coordinate resources to strengthen families and children. We provide high quality programs that have a large and lasting effect on the child's education, foundation, well-being, and a family's ability to become…
Human Services
6
Jobs with Justice San Francisco
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,…
Employment
7
Bay Area Community Services Housing Corp
Improve the quality of life for the people in alameda and conta costa counties, california with specific needs imposed by age or disability.
Housing & Shelter
8
Institute for Human & Social Development
Institute for Human and Social Development provides excellent comprehensive child development and family support services through center based family child care and home visiting to the highest need children of 0-5 years old and their…
Education
9
Pacific East Quality Education
YCIS Silicon Valley is a welcoming school community where all children from preschool through grade 8 are encouraged to find and follow their gifts as they learn in both Chinese and English. Our goal:to help our students become…
Education
10
Sjb Child Development Centers
To provide high quality educational childcare for children 0 to 12 years of age and to strengthen and support families throughout Santa Clara County.
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11
Sierra Cascade Family Opportunities
To provide support services through the Head Start Program, the Early Head Start Program, the California State Preschool Program, and the Child Care Food Program.
Human Services
12
Foothill Family Service
Foothill Family empowers children and families to achieve success in relationships, school, and work through community-based services that advance growth and development.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education for Change and the most unlike its peers is Step Up and Do Something Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
Closures · last 5 years
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
orgs you fund
2%4/183
the rest of the field
10%
4,737/45,802
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.
03the grantee network
94 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
20
Early backer (in before they grew)
89/94
Grantees still filing
64/94
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Education$88,476Employment$50,000Human Services$47,950Youth Development$37,700Other$7,950
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.
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.
Second Harvest of Silicon ValleyCA72.1× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Raising A Reader · Los Altos Mountain View · Loved Twice · Sutter Bay Hospitals
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 organisation THE FAMILY GIVING TREE 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
04Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: COMMUNITY UNITED SAN JOSE - STARBIRD.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
6 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 204367250 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on COMMUNITY UNITED SAN JOSE - STARBIRD, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 63% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to The Family Giving Tree?
Find your warmest path to The Family Giving Tree through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
More from the funding graph
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines