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The Intero Foundation Inc

Our mission is to positively impact the growth and well-being of children in the communities we serve.

$331k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2023–2024.

Youth Development$213kHuman Services$127kHealth$116kRecreation & Sports$28kEducation$16kPhilanthropy$15kCivil Rights$13kCrime & Legal$9kOther$0
02FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $256,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $331,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $75,000 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE PENINSULA COLLEGE FUND$20,000
THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA$15,000
SAN JOSE SPORTS AUTHORITY$15,000
JW HOUSE$15,000
THE GOOD SHEPARD FUND$15,000
CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC$12,500
BAY AREA WOMEN'S SPORTS INITIATIVE$12,500
PARENTS HELPING PARENTS$10,000
JOYENES DE ANTANO DEL CONDADO$10,000
EMPOWER AND EXCEL$10,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$10,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE$10,000
MENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION$10,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRACH$10,000
02The need
03

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 (FY23–24, $81k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%PARENTS HELPING PARENTS: $10k → 8%PARENTS HELPING PARENTS: $10k → 8%NATURAL RESOURCES-FAMILY ASSIST PROGRAM: $11k → 10%DREAMPOWER: $6k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $20k → 8%NO TIME TO WASTE: $11k → 8%PACIFIC CLINICS (NEURODEVELOPMENT SERVICES): $6k → 8%PACIFIC CLINICS (CRISIS SERVICES): $6k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

23%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$123k · 5 repeat orgs$412k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +12% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
17

Total granted

$123k
$222k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+11%

Still filing today

80%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $190k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’23’24
Human ServicesEducationHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyAnimalsOther

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

  • JH
    JW HOUSE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $35k · revenue -7%
  • TW
    THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue -6%
  • PH
    PARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $20k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • FL
    FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +61%
  • JH
    JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICESgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $22k · revenue +85%
  • NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +3%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your 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
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
2
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
3
Advokids

Protecting and promoting the right of every child in foster care in California to safety, security, and a permanent home. Teaching others how to advocate for safety, security, and permanency for children in foster care.

Unclassified
4
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.

—
5
Children's Council of San Francisco

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…

Human Services
6
Child Advocates of Contra Costa County

The court appointed special advocates (casa) program recruits, trains, and supports volunteer advocates to support abused and neglected children during the court process, to help every child find a permanent home and complete their…

Civil Rights
7
California Alliance of Caregivers

California Alliance of Caregivers represents the voices of relative and non-relative caregivers to promote the well-being of children in foster care. California Alliance of Caregivers provides training information support and advocacy for…

Health
8
Palo Alto Community Child Care

Palo alto community child care (paccc) partners with parents and regional agencies to provide quality, professional and accessible childhood care, and education.

Human Services
9
Children's Health Council Inc

Children's health council's mission is to transform young lives by providing culturally-responsible best-in-class services for learning differences and mental health to families from diverse backgrounds regardless of language, location or…

Health
10
Casa of Solano County

Advocates for abused, neglected and other identified children within the court system, with the belief that every child is entitled to a safe and stable home.

Civil Rights
11
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area

To create and support one-to-one mentoring relationships that ignite the power and promise of youth.

—
12
Court Appointed Special Advocates

The Sonoma County Court Appointed Special Advocates (CASA) Program serves abused and neglected children coming before the Juvenile Court of Protection and Rehabilitation Services.

Civil Rights

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parents Helping Parents Inc and the most unlike its peers is Max Rhymes Foundation. 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 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr14%3%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr16%42%20–35yr16%18%35–55yr11%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%4%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%23%10–20yr16%43%20–35yr16%19%35–55yr11%10%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/43
the rest of the field
11%
1,663/15,798

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.

04the grantee network

38 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. 38 of the 41 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
16/38
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

JW HOUSE — $35,000 · HealthJW HOUSETHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA — $30,000 · HealthTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BA…JACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES — $22,000 · HealthJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CA…HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $12,500 · HealthHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATIONRape Trauma Services — $11,000 · HealthRape Trauma ServicesAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY I…PARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesPARENTS HELPING PAREN…NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $20,000 · Human ServicesNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS T…PACIFIC CLINICS — $12,500 · Human ServicesPACIFIC CLINICSNO TIME TO WASTE — $11,000 · Human ServicesNO TIME TO WASTETHE NATURAL RESOURCES ALL FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 · Human ServicesTHE NATURAL RESOURCES…LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $11,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BL…Jovenes de Antano del Condado de San Benito — $10,000 · Human ServicesJovenes de Antano del…The Dreampower Foundation — $6,000 · Human ServicesThe Dreampower Founda…The Peninsula College Fund — $20,000 · EducationThe Peninsula Coll…EMPOWER AND EXCEL — $20,000 · EducationEMPOWER AND EXCELCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL — $15,000 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN JOS…MENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION — $10,000 · EducationMENTOR TUTOR CONNE…WINGS LEARNING CENTER INC — $8,000 · EducationWINGS LEARNING CEN…TANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING — $7,500 · EducationTANDEM PARTNERS IN…MAX RHYMES FOUNDATION — $7,000 · EducationMAX RHYMES FOUNDAT…SAM AND SOCKS RIDING SCHOOL — $18,000 · OtherSAM AND SOCKS RIDING SCH…THE SAN JOSE SPORTS AUTHORITY — $15,000 · OtherTHE SAN JOSE SPORTS AUTH…ODD FELLOW- REBEKAH CHILDRENS HOME OF CALIFORNIA — $11,000 · OtherODD FELLOW- REBEKAH CHIL…DAILY ASCENSION PARTNERS PROG - DAPP — $10,000 · OtherDAILY ASCENSION PARTNERS…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA — $10,000 · OtherRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CH…ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA — $7,000 · OtherASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS…Be A Mentor Inc — $6,000 · OtherCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $12,500 · OtherCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILIC…Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative — $12,500 · OtherBay Area Womens Sports I…CASA of San Mateo County — $9,000 · OtherCASA of San Mateo CountyOPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC — $7,500 · OtherOPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LI…FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRESH LIFELIN…SHINE TOGETHER INC — $15,000 · Youth DevelopmentSHINE TOGETHE…PATHWAYS FOR KIDS CO PETER DWARES — $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentPATHWAYS FOR …BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRACY — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $6,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRL…THE GOOD SHEPHERD FUND — $15,000 · PhilanthropyEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyMORGAN HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $8,000 · PhilanthropyPaws Helping People Inc — $15,000 · Animals
Health$120,500Human Services$101,500Education$87,500Other$118,500Youth Development$67,000Philanthropy$33,000Animals$15,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJW HOUSE — $35,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA — $30,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACOBS HEART CHILDRENS CANCER SUPPORT SERVICES — $22,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Peninsula College Fund — $20,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetEMPOWER AND EXCEL — $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE SAN JOSE SPORTS AUTHORITY — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE GOOD SHEPHERD FUND — $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPaws Helping People Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Womens Sports Initiative — $12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetODD FELLOW- REBEKAH CHILDRENS HOME OF CALIFORNIA — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNO TIME TO WASTE — $11,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR KIDS CO PETER DWARES — $11,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE NATURAL RESOURCES ALL FAMILIES FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRape Trauma Services — $11,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF TRACY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetJovenes de Antano del Condado de San Benito — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO KIDS FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA of San Mateo County — $9,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMORGAN HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetWINGS LEARNING CENTER INC — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTANDEM PARTNERS IN EARLY LEARNING — $7,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOPEN HEART KITCHEN OF LIVERMORE INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAX RHYMES FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Dreampower Foundation — $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBe A Mentor Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY — $6,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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.

Kaiser Foundation Hos…Silicon Valley Commun…The Sobrato Family Fo…San Jose Mercury News…Heffernan Group Found…Los Altos Mountain Vi…Gordon E and Betty I …Sutter Bay Medical Fo…Quest FoundationThe Sharks FoundationThe David and Lucile …Bright Funds Foundati…
Kaiser Foundation HospitalsCA34.2× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Heffernan Group Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · Quest Foundation · The Sharks Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation

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 Intero Foundation Inc 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
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    typical government reliance, FY20–25

    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to The Intero Foundation Inc?

    Find your warmest path to The Intero Foundation Inc 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.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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