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Valley Health Foundation (Vhf)
VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) is a non-profit leader in community health and healthcare that fundraises to support, innovate, and advocate for better health for all in santa clara county.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $211k
- $50k–250k26 grants · $3.1M
- $250k+11 grants · $6.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALUM ROCK UNION ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRIC | $2,040,000 |
| EAST SIDE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $1,640,404 |
| MORGAN HILL UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $702,891 |
| COUNTY OF SANTA CLARA HEALTH SYSTEM | $369,341 |
| LOS ALTOS SCHOOL DISTRICT | $360,000 |
| GILROY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $360,000 |
| JOYFUL LEARNING EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT C | $280,000 |
| WILLOW GLEN COMMUNITY EXTENDED DAY | $273,131 |
| SANTA CLARA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION (V | $270,037 |
| DOWNTOWN COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $256,996 |
| MOUNT PLEASANT ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $255,000 |
| CONGREGATION SINAI | $237,000 |
| TURNING WHEELS FOR KIDS | $227,947 |
| SJ CONSERVATION CORPS CHARTER SCHOOL | $197,769 |
| MY ROOTS LEARNING INC | $189,277 |
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 (FY18–24, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 38 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9.3M 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
- HKHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $751k · revenue +12%
- SMSOMOS MAYFAIR INC5× · 2018–2024 · $351k · revenue +167%
- ICInternational Children Assistance Network Inc2× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- SSCVMCone grant, 2017 · $866k
- SCSANTA CLARA VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER - RORone grant, 2017 · $386k
- CTCARRY THE VISIONone grant, 2023 · $300k · revenue +2%
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.
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,…
Silicon Valley Rising Action takes on occupational segregation and income inequality with a comprehensive campaign to raise wages, create affordable housing, and build a tech economy that works for everyone.
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.
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.
We are a non-partisan network of civic associations, faith-based organizations and nonprofits that come together to effect change on a larger scale than we could alone. We identify shared issues affecting our communities (such as housing…
Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.
Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.
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…
Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact…
Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.
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.
Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits and the most unlike its peers is Project Safety Net. 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 26 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
94 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. 94 of the 169 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.
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 HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOMOS MAYFAIR INC ↗
- Who funds International Children Assistance Network Inc ↗
- Who funds CARRY THE VISION ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SAFETY NET ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC ↗
- Who funds ACROSS THE BRIDGE FOUNDATION DBA DOWNTOWN COLLEGE PREPARATORY ↗
- Who funds GRACE SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds San Jose Grail Family Services ↗
- Who funds ABILITYPATH ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds STEP FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative ↗
- Who funds LATINAS CONTRA CANCER ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF EDUCARE CALIFORNIA AT SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
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: The Sobrato Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Health Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Applied Materials Foundation · Sunlight Giving · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley
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 Valley Health Foundation (Vhf) 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.
- Jsi Research & Training Institute Inc — 69% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
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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