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The Valley 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.

$3.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$3.5M
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 FY2017–2024.

Philanthropy$12MYouth Development$2.8MArts & Culture$2.0MEducation$1.9MReligion$1.9MHealth$1.3MPublic Benefit$969kEmployment$650kOther$0
02FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$3,450,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$71M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR-ADVISED FUND$3,450,000
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 (FY17–20, $304k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%MONKEY TAIL RANCH: $10k → 7%PROJECT NIGHT NIGHT: $5k → 10%MAMA D 2ND CHANCE: $6k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $25k → 8%RED-WHITE & BLUE CHARITY: $3k → 8%Red-White & Blue Charity: $3k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $50k → 8%NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS: $50k → 8%RECOVERY CAFE SAN JOSE: $25k → 8%RECOVERY CAFE SAN JOSE: $15k → 8%Uplift Family Services: $10k → 8%NO TIME TO WASTE: $3k → 8%ADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES: $100k → 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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 25 repeat orgs$6.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

25 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
50

Total granted

$18M
$6.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+10%

Still filing today

76%
74%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthArts & CultureEducationPublic BenefitReligionOther

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

  • CM
    CITYTEAM MINISTRIES
    4× · 2018–2023 · $1.6M · revenue +34%
  • MA
    MONTALVO ASSOCIATION
    4× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +26%
  • CR
    CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL
    2× · 2017–2020 · $1.1M · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SC
    SANTA CLARA BOY SCOUTS
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • BS
    BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL
    one grant, 2019 · $975k · revenue -38%
  • SJ
    SAN JOSE CONSERVATION CORPSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $600k · revenue +103%

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
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Sv Home

Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.

Housing & Shelter
3
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.

—
4
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
5
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
6
Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley

Housing rehabilitation and repairs

Education
7
Child Advocates of Silicon Valley Inc

To be there for every foster child in silicon valley who has experienced abuse, neglect and/or abandonment.

Civil Rights
8
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
9
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.

—
10
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
11
The Health Trust

The mission is to build health equity in silicon valley.

Health
12
StarVista

StarVista's mission is to deliver high impact services through counseling, skill development and crisis prevention to children, youth, adults and families. At StarVista, we believe that everyone deserves the chance to be healthy and…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Services and the most unlike its peers is Young At Heart Project. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPerforming Arts Organizatio…Senior Affordable HousingSchool Parent-Teacher Organ…Family Mental Health Servic…Animal Rescue and WelfareYouth Education & Career De…Community Health CentersHomeless & Domestic Violenc…Disability Services & Recov…Public Charter Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number25%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr19%27%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr11%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value25%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr19%20%10–20yr16%40%20–35yr14%14%35–55yr11%26%55yr+

The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/59
the rest of the field
12%
2,671/22,404

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

58 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. 58 of the 76 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
40/58
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR-ADVISED FUND — $10,400,008 · OtherSCHWAB CHARITABLE DONOR-ADVISED FUNDSANTA CLARA BOY SCOUTS — $1,000,000 · OtherSANTA CLARA BOY SCOUTSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL — $975,000 · OtherBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCILSAN JOSE CONSERVATION CORPS — $600,000 · Other+49 more — $4,205,220 · Other+49 moreCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL — $1,100,000 · EducationInstitute for the Study of Western Civilization — $700,000 · EducationREADING PARTNERS — $65,000 · Education+1 more — $20,000 · EducationCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $1,625,000 · Religion+2 more — $25,000 · ReligionMONTALVO ASSOCIATION — $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE LIGHT TOWER CORPORATION — $100,000 · Arts & CultureSAN JOSE CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATER — $100,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $64,000 · Arts & CultureREALOPTIONS — $405,000 · HealthGeorge Mark Childrens Fund — $150,000 · HealthNAMI SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $80,900 · HealthHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $42,800 · HealthStroke Awareness Foundation — $25,000 · HealthCOASTAL KIDS HOME CARE — $25,000 · Health+2 more — $20,000 · HealthSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $700,000 · PhilanthropyLOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN — $600,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$17,180,228Education$1,885,000Religion$1,650,000Arts & Culture$1,514,000Health$748,700Philanthropy$700,000Food & Nutrition$600,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $1,625,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION — $1,250,000 over 4y, 7.7% of budgetCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL — $1,100,000 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 55 SILICON VALLEY MONTEREY BAY COUNCIL — $975,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetInstitute for the Study of Western Civilization — $700,000 over 3y, 56% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $700,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES FAMILY KITCHEN — $600,000 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetSAN JOSE CONSERVATION CORPS — $600,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetSaratoga Historical Foundation — $500,000 over 1y, 89% of budgetTURNING POINT USA INC — $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetREALOPTIONS — $405,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetCHAMPION MINISTRIES INC — $270,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetHoward Jarvis Taxpayers Foundation — $200,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $200,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund — $150,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetROTACARE BAY AREA INC — $100,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetSAN JOSE LIGHT TOWER CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $100,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetADVENT GROUP MINISTRIES INC — $100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSAN JOSE CHILDRENS MUSICAL THEATER — $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNAMI SANTA CLARA COUNTY — $80,900 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetREADING PARTNERS — $65,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHOPE SERVICES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern California — $45,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION — $42,800 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetHONOR FLIGHT BAY AREA FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetRecovery Cafe San Jose — $40,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetPROJECT HIRED INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF SAN JOSE — $30,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetOPERATION FREEDOM PAWS — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOASTAL KIDS HOME CARE — $25,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY CORPORATION AT MONTEREY BAY — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG AT HEART PROJECT — $20,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetMAGICAL BRIDGE FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBOK RANCH INC — $18,720 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetAnimal Assisted Happiness Inc — $15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetVIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA HOUSING CORPORATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RECREATION TEAMBUILDING IMPACTING PROGRAM — $10,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetEATING DISORDERS RESOURCE CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetThe Monkey Tail Ranch Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW FIREFIGHTERS RANDOM ACTS — $7,500 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetRed-White and Blue Charity — $6,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetMAMA D 2ND CHANCE — $5,500 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetMIDTOWN FAMILY SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Los Altos Mountain Vi…The Sobrato Family Fo…Heffernan Group Found…Farrington Historical…Rotary Club of San Jo…The Brandenburg Famil…Bright Funds Foundati…San Jose Mercury News…The Applied Materials…The David and Lucile …
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA43.6× affinity37 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · The Brandenburg Family Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · The Applied Materials Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard 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 Valley 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%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 Valley Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Valley 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 76 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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