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The San Bruno Community Foundation

To serve the san bruno community by investing in projects, programs, services, and facilities that have significant and lasting benefits.

$6.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
25
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5.7M
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 FY2017–2025.

Recreation & Sports$49MPublic Safety & Disaster$8.2MCommunity Improvement$2.7MEducation$1.8MArts & Culture$521kHealth$520kHuman Services$443kFood & Nutrition$240kOther$0
02FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 25 grants below total $6,187,200 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $6,375,200 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $188,000 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $208k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $225k
  • $250k+1 grant · $5.7M
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF SAN BRUNO$5,701,700
SAN BRUNO EDUCATION FOUNDATION$225,000
MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT$20,000
EACH GREEN CORNER$20,000
SAN MATEO COUNTY COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT$20,000
LATINO COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL & DRUG ABUSE SERVICES$15,000
CIRCUS BELLA$15,000
MUSIC FOR MINORS INC$15,000
WINGS LEARNING CENTER INC$12,500
CAPUCHINO HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION$10,000
CORA (COMMUNITY OVERCOMING RELATIONSHIP ABUSE)$10,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN MATEO COUNTY$10,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$10,000
SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL$10,000
YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO$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 (FY17–25, $626k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $15k → 7%PARENTS HELPING PARENTS: $20k → 8%PARTNERS & ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN & ADULTS: $15k → 7%PARENTS HELPING PARENTS: $5k → 8%PARTNERS & ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN & ADULTS (PARCA): $12k → 7%PARTNERS & ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN & ADULTS: $10k → 7%PARTNERS & ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN & ADULTS: $10k → 7%PARTNERS & ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN & ADULTS (PARCA): $10k → 7%PARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS: $10k → 7%MISSION HOSPICE & HOME CARE INC: $7k → 7%CHILD CARE COORDINATING COUNCIL: $100k → 7%STARVISTA: $10k → 7%STARVISTA: $10k → 7%STARVISTA: $10k → 7%STARVISTA: $10k → 7%STARVISTA: $10k → 7%STARVISTA: $9k → 7%STARVISTA: $5k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $25k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $20k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $20k → 7%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES: $15k → 7%OMBUDSMAN SERVICES OF SAN MATEO COUNTY: $10k → 7%CENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF INDIVIDUALS WITH DISABILITIES: $12k → 7%OMBUDSMAN SERVICES OF SAN MATEO COUNTY: $10k → 7%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $18k → 7%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $17k → 7%SAMOAN SOLUTIONS: $15k → 7%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 7%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $9k → 7%CATHOLIC WORKER HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $22k → 7%CATHOLIC WORKER HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $20k → 7%CATHOLIC WORKER HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $15k → 7%THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY: $25k → 7%THE SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY: $20k → 7%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL: $20k → 7%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL: $20k → 7%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL: $15k → 7%SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL: $10k → 7%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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$64M · 37 repeat orgs$458k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

37 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
23

Total granted

$64M
$371k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+28%

Still filing today

92%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $87k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • SB
    SAN BRUNO EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +42% · 71% of their budget
  • CH
    CAPUCHINO HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2017–2025 · $254k · revenue +49% · 50% of their budget
  • CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse
    8× · 2018–2025 · $145k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • CC
    Child Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +84%
  • SB
    SAN BRUNO PARK SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2023 · $35k
  • PS
    PROJECT SENTINEL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +76%

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
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
2
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
3
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

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.

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4
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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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
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
7
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
8
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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9
Silicon Valley Independent Living Center

SVILC builds disability identity, culture, pride, creating opportunities for personal and community transformation, and partnering with others to ensure that civil and human rights are protected.

Human Services
10
Sustainable San Mateo County

To stimulate action to make San Mateo County more sustainable on economic, environmental, and social equity issues through empowering information and advocacy.

Environment
11
Peninsula Family Connections

Family Connections is a nonprofit organization founded in 1993 that strengthens families and builds resilient communities in San Mateo County. The organization provides evidence-based, family-centered programs that support parents and…

Health
12
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parkside Boosters. 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 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%5%<5yr14%9%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr16%34%20–35yr15%19%35–55yr11%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%50%10–20yr16%23%20–35yr15%12%35–55yr11%7%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%1/70
the rest of the field
10%
1,498/14,292

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

56 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. 56 of the 70 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
55/56
Grantees still filing
40/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CITY OF SAN BRUNO — $59,597,683 · OtherCITY OF SAN BRUNO+33 more — $1,129,955 · OtherSAN BRUNO EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,555,390 · EducationCAPUCHINO HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $254,441 · Education+7 more — $138,100 · EducationSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesChild Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County Inc — $100,000 · Human ServicesPARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $82,460 · Human ServicesPENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC — $65,000 · Human ServicesStarVista — $64,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC WORKER HOSPITALITY HOUSE — $57,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $53,600 · Human ServicesSamoan Solutions — $40,000 · Human ServicesCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED — $27,074 · Human ServicesPARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $26,500 · Human ServicesVIA HEART PROJECT — $94,809 · HealthLATINO COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE SERVICES — $90,000 · HealthEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $71,246 · HealthSONRISAS DENTAL HEALTH INC — $52,500 · HealthRape Trauma Services — $15,000 · HealthTanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee — $200,000 · Arts & CultureART IN ACTION — $56,000 · Arts & CultureMUSIC FOR MINORS INC — $45,000 · Arts & CultureCircus Bella — $15,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $7,000 · Arts & CultureSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $150,000 · PhilanthropySAN BRUNO LIONS FOUNDATION — $61,525 · PhilanthropyLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County — $75,000 · Crime & LegalCASA of San Mateo County — $37,500 · Crime & LegalPENINSULA CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER — $35,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$60,727,638Education$1,947,931Human Services$650,634Health$323,555Arts & Culture$323,000Philanthropy$211,525Crime & Legal$147,500

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 budgetSAN BRUNO EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $1,555,390 over 8y, 71% of budgetCAPUCHINO HIGH SCHOOL ALUMNI ASSOCIATION — $254,441 over 7y, 50% of budgetTanforan Assembly Center Memorial Committee — $200,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse — $145,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL PARTICULAR COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO INC — $110,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetChild Care Coordinating Council of San Mateo County Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVIA HEART PROJECT — $94,809 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetLATINO COMMISSION ON ALCOHOL AND DRUG ABUSE SERVICES — $90,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $87,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS AND ADVOCATES FOR REMARKABLE CHILDREN AND ADULTS — $82,460 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County — $75,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $74,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $71,246 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetStarVista — $64,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSAN BRUNO LIONS FOUNDATION — $61,525 over 5y, 23% of budgetCATHOLIC WORKER HOSPITALITY HOUSE — $57,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetART IN ACTION — $56,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $53,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSONRISAS DENTAL HEALTH INC — $52,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE LOWEN SOCCER CLUB — $51,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMUSIC FOR MINORS INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetEACH GREEN CORNER — $42,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetMindful Life Project — $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCASA of San Mateo County — $37,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetMy Digital TAT2 Inc — $35,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetPENINSULA CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER — $35,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUpward Scholars — $28,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCENTER FOR INDEPENDENCE OF THE DISABLED — $27,074 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetPARENTS HELPING PARENTS INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California — $21,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBay Area Bioscience Education Community — $20,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetAGEUP INC — $20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATION — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCircus Bella — $15,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetRape Trauma Services — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSan Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation — $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMarine Science Institute — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetFRESH APPROACH — $14,840 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWINGS LEARNING CENTER INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMID-PENINSULA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $11,275 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATALINO TAPIA SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATI — $10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetRising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER — $8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPIEFEST LIMITED — $7,100 over 1y, 3.8% 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.

Atkinson FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Bothin FoundationKaiser Foundation Hos…Sand Hill FoundationThe David and Lucile …The Palo Alto Communi…Monterra Community Fu…The Sobrato Family Fo…Community Foundation …Gordon E and Betty I …Woodlawn Foundation
Atkinson FoundationCA60.7× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atkinson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Sand Hill Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Monterra Community Fund · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Community Foundation of San Carlos · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Woodlawn 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 San Bruno Community 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    24report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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 San Bruno Community Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The San Bruno Community Foundation 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 70 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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