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The Nick Traina Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM | $26,250 |
| ACCESS INSTITUTE FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL SERVICES | $25,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES | $25,000 |
| COUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH | $20,000 |
| HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME | $20,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $436k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- HYHUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $195k · revenue +90%
- ACADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +48%
- AIAccess Institute for Psychological Services6× · 2017–2024 · $135k · revenue +113%
Funded once
- TETeen Esteemgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +54%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Harm Reduction Therapy Center is dedicated to providing treatment to people with co-occurring substance misuse and mental illness, and training mental health, drug treatment, and social service providers who work with complex…
Avcs is committed to meeting the mental health concerns of all ages with an emphasis on youth. avcs offers a full range of counseling services which supports and promotes personal growth, positive family relationships and emotional…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
Our mission is to encourage a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life. Every year, CYC impacts over 8,000 San Francisco youth and their families,…
24-Hours Crisis Lines and Crisis Counseling and Community Education Programs.
The Organization provides three core programs:- Prescriber Mental Health Services Program is designed to provide comprehensive mental healthcare, which includes the assessment, prescription, and management of medication as needed. The…
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…
Open paths counseling center's mission is to meet the evolving mental health needs of the community through quality counseling for individuals and families at affordable fees; free therapy programs for at-risk children and youth in local…
Health Connected equips young people and trusted adults with knowledge and skills to thoughtfully navigate the intersections of relationships, bodies, and digital well-being.
The Center for Child and Adolescent Mental Health exists to expand access to quality evidence-based youth mental health support as quickly as possible.
To provide services to families and to youth with emotional disturbance in order to enable these youth to maintain family and community relationships.
Alchemy Community Therapy Center provides high-quality training, accesible psychedelic therapy, and innovative research, fostering effective and culturally-responsible mental health treatment for underserved communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is At the Crossroads and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Suicide Prevention. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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.
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO CONSERVATORY OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Access Institute for Psychological Services ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY DAY HOME ↗
- Who funds AT THE CROSSROADS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds COUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds Teen Esteem ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Horizons Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
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 Nick Traina Foundation 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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