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To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation

The primary mission of the organization is to raise funds and grant financial assistance to non-profit organizations in the bay area that assist women and men with breast health issues by providing emergency funds, direct services, diagnostic tests, and navigational services.

$440k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$240k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of TO CELEBRATE LIFE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $23k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $240k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALLOCATION FOR GRANTS FOR 2024$240,000
CHARLOTTE MAXWELL CLINIC$22,000
WOMEN'S CANCER RESOURCE CENTER$21,000
MARINHEALTH FOUNDATION$20,000
SHANTI PROJECT$17,000
PILIPINO SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER$15,000
BRIGHT SPOT NETWORK$15,000
SAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CANCER NETWOR$15,000
HERS BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION$15,000
TIM AND JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION$15,000
CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT$12,500
CANCER CAREPOINT$10,000
ZERO BREAST CANCER$7,500
CANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY$7,500
PINK RIBBON GOOD INC$7,500
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 (FY19–24, $90k) 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.

area typical 7%PILIPINO SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 10%PILIPINO SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 10%PILIPINO SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 10%PILIPINO SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $15k → 10%PILIPINO SENIOR RESOURCE CTR: $15k → 10%PILIPINO SENIOR RESOURCE CTR: $15k → 10%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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 26 repeat orgs$312k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against -59% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
5

Total granted

$1.7M
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
-59%

Still filing today

88%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther

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

  • WC
    Womens Cancer Resource Center
    6× · 2019–2024 · $182k · revenue +23%
  • MG
    MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · $163k · revenue +270%
  • CM
    Charlotte Maxwell Clinic
    6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • SG
    SF GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUND
    one grant, 2019 · $18k
  • BC
    Breast Cancer Emergency Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $16k
  • LB
    LATINA BREAST CANCER AGENCY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k

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
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

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
2
Breast and Gyn Health Project

Breast and GYN Health Project is a grassroots cancer resource center for those facing breast or gynecologic cancer concerns. We promote healthy survivorship through information, hope, and healing support, while encouraging each person to…

Health
3
Asian and Pacific Islander Wellness Center Inc

Our core belief at San Francisco Community Health Center is that everyone deserves to be healthy and needs access to the highest quality health care. Our mission is to transform lives by advancing health, wellness and equality.

Health
4
Thesecondopinion

The organization provides free, comprehensive second opinions to adults in California diagnosed with cancer.

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5
Healing Partners of the Central Coast

To support health, healing and wholeness by promoting and providing holistic therapy, including the therapy commonly known as healing touch, and other healing modalities to patients, their families and caregivers; to support the wellbeing…

Health
6
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
7
Cancer Support Community - California Central Coast

To help people affected by cancer enhance their health and well-being through participation in a professional program of emotional support, education, and hope at no cost.

Health
8
San Francisco Fire Fighters Cancer Prevention Foundation

San francisco firefighters cancer prevention foundation (sffcpf) is committed to the prevention and early detection of cancer and providing access to cutting edge care for active and retired members of the san francisco fire department and…

Health
9
Cancer Support Community Arizona

CSCAZ uplifts and strengthens people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

Health
10
Soteria Precision Medicine Foundation Inc

Soteria Precision Medicine Foundation is dedicated to empowering patients and physicians with personalized precision medicine solutions.

Health
11
Children's Hospital & Research Center At Oakland

The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.

Health
12
Scripps Health

Founded in 1924 by philanthropist Ellen Browning Scripps, Scripps Health is a $4.9 billion, private not-for-profit integrated health system in San Diego, Ca. (see Sch O)

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Cancer Connections and the most unlike its peers is Pilipino Senior Resource Center. 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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%21%10–20yr18%42%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr11%8%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr18%45%20–35yr15%21%35–55yr11%12%55yr+

The field is 23% 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 — 10% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
10%
3/31
the rest of the field
11%
3,673/32,135

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

29 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. 29 of the 33 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALLOCATION FOR GRANTS FOR 2024 — $240,000 · OtherALLOCATION FOR GRANTS FOR 2024Womens Cancer Resource Center — $181,500 · OtherWomens Cancer Resource CenterCharlotte Maxwell Clinic — $160,000 · OtherCharlotte Maxwell ClinicSHANTI PROJECT — $140,800 · OtherSHANTI PROJECTSunflower Wellness — $38,000 · Other+8 more — $145,000 · Other+8 moreMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $163,250 · HealthMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS — $95,000 · HealthBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONSHERS BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $84,000 · HealthHERS BREAST CANCER FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO WOMENS CANCER NETWORK — $52,000 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO WOMENS CANCER NETWORKLATINAS CONTRA CANCER — $45,075 · HealthLATINAS CONTRA CANCERSUTTER BAY HOSPITALS — $40,000 · HealthSUTTER BAY HOSPITALSBright Spot Network — $35,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT SONOMA — $31,000 · HealthCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY San Francisco Bay Area — $27,500 · Health+6 more — $104,500 · Health+6 moreTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $104,925 · Human ServicesTHE CERES …PILIPINO SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER — $90,000 · Human ServicesPILIPINO S…MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING — $154,500 · Housing & ShelterTIM AND JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION — $111,000 · PhilanthropyProject Open Hand — $10,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$905,300Health$677,325Human Services$194,925Housing & Shelter$154,500Philanthropy$111,000Food & Nutrition$10,000

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 budgetWomens Cancer Resource Center — $181,500 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $163,250 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCharlotte Maxwell Clinic — $160,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetMARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING — $154,500 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSHANTI PROJECT — $140,800 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTIM AND JEANNIE HAMANN FOUNDATION — $111,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetTHE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT — $104,925 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS — $95,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPILIPINO SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER — $90,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetHERS BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — $84,000 over 6y, 2.9% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO WOMENS CANCER NETWORK — $52,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetLATINAS CONTRA CANCER — $45,075 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetSUTTER BAY HOSPITALS — $40,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSunflower Wellness — $38,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetBright Spot Network — $35,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT SONOMA — $31,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetCANCER SUPPORT COMMUNITY San Francisco Bay Area — $27,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PARTNERSHIP (CHP) — $22,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity Health Partnership Inc — $21,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CAREPOINT INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPINK RIBBON GOOD INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetProject Open Hand — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetZERO BREAST CANCER — $7,500 over 1y, 4.5% 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.

McNabb FoundationThe Albertsons Compan…Marin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…East Bay Community Fo…Sutter Bay HospitalsSilicon Valley Commun…Kaiser Foundation Hos…San Jose Mercury News…Leonard & Beryl Buck …Hobsonlucas Family Fo…Glassybaby White Ligh…
McNabb FoundationDE27.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: McNabb Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Glassybaby White Light Fund

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 To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer 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%2%6%14%25%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
    6report 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 To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to To Celebrate Life Breast Cancer 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 33 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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