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The Family Giving Tree
By inspiring community kindness, generosity, and volunteerism.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $232,076 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,406,863 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,174,787 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $86k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $138k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 (FY21–21, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.
At the sacramento children's home, we are committed to opening doors to the future by maximizing the potential of children and families.
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)
We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.
Our mission is to nurture, teach and empower children and families to transform their lives by providing critical assistance to low-income families with early childhood development, workforce training, school-age enrichment, and family…
Empowering diverse communities in california's central valley.
To be the place to begin for all bay area children, youth and families who need mental health, social services and academic support. edgewood is the premier provider of a full continuum of behavioral health services that transform the…
Our mission is to build a community free from poverty by creating hope, opportunity, and action. we provide essential services, work together to improve our lives, organize for justice, and inspire our community to love, serve, and share.
Family supportive housing, inc. is committed to the entire family and encourages families to stay intact while addressing their needs for food, shelter, education, and employment. the organization provides shelter, housing opportunities…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Connections Centers and the most unlike its peers is International Children Assistance Network 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
111 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.
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.
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: 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
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 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.
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.
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