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The Valenzuela Family Foundation at a glance

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The Valenzuela Family Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$290k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$110k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Food & Nutrition$365kEducation$142kAnimals$105kHealth$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kHuman Services$10k
02FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $10k–50k5 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $160k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MAUI FOOD BANK$110,000
MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION$50,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$35,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$30,000
HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY$30,000
MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY$25,000
HILLBROOK SCHOOL$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $35k → 14%EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$500k · 5 repeat orgs$207k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +64% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

5 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
5

Total granted

$500k
$97k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+28%

Still filing today

80%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationFood & NutritionHuman ServicesAnimalsHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MAUI FOOD BANK INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $210k · revenue +138%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    2× · 2020–2023 · $130k · revenue +45%
  • HS
    HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY
    3× · 2018–2023 · $80k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • CR
    CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOLgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $50k · revenue +28%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
  • EA
    EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -55%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.

Animals
2
San Francisco Food Bank

To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…

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3
Second Harvest Food Bank Santa Cruz County

Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.

Food & Nutrition
4
Hawaii Foodbank Inc

Hawaii foodbank, inc. is a nonprofit organization established to collect, warehouse and distribute salvageable food to social agencies that feed the needy of hawaii. the company is a certified member of feeding america, a nonprofit…

Food & Nutrition
5
The Food Basket Inc

The mission of the organization is to feed the hungry in hawaii county while attending to the root causes of this critical social problem. the food basket accomplishes its mission by preventing the waste of all edible food in hawaii…

Food & Nutrition
6
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
7
Food Forward Inc

Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.

Food & Nutrition
8
Maui Nui Resiliency Hui

Maui nui resiliency hui (mnrh) is committed to creating a more resilient and equitable future for maui county by focusing on affordable housing solutions that empower our community members. our mission is to collaborate, educate, and…

Education
9
Island Harvest Ltd

The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.

Human Services
10
Sacramento Food Bank & Family Services

Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.

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11
Second Harvest Heartland

Second harvest heartland's mission is to end hunger together. in partnership with more than 1,000 food shelves and hunger-relief programs in minnesota and western wisconsin, we provided 145 million meals to neighbors last year.

Food & Nutrition
12
Alameda County Community Food Bank

Alameda county community food bank passionately pursues a hunger-free community.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Maui Humane Society; the most unlike its peers is Humane Society Silicon Valley. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 13 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MAUI FOOD BANK INC: $210,000 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INCSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $130,000 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEYCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN JOSE …SACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationSACRED HEART NATIVIT…HILLBROOK SCHOOL: $40,000 · EducationHILLBROOK SCHOOLHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $80,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY S…MAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 · AnimalsMAUI HUMANE SOCI…MAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 · HealthAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 · Human ServicesEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $25,000 · OtherST MARY OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherPRESENTATION HIGH SCHOOL SAN JOSE: $2,000 · Other
Food & Nutrition$340,000Education$130,000Animals$105,000Health$50,000Human Services$45,000Other$37,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMAUI FOOD BANK INC: $210,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $130,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $80,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMAUI HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSACRED HEART NATIVITY SCHOOL: $40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHILLBROOK SCHOOL: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Heffernan Group Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Heffernan Group FoundationCA13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Heffernan Group Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Valenzuela Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Valenzuela Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 13 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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