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Woman's Club of Palo Alto at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

· Public charity

Woman's Club of Palo Alto

Self improvement, mutual help and community work.

$12k
Granted FY2021
4
Grants FY2021
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its fieldRead
01What it funds
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2021.

Philanthropy$13kEducation$7kArts & Culture$5kHealth$5kEmployment$5kFood & Nutrition$4kYouth Development$3k
02FY2021 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RISE TOGETHER EDUCATION$4,000
ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM$4,000
RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING$2,500
ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES$1,700
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%KIDS & ART FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%RISE TOGETHER EDUCATION: $4k → 8%ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $2k → 7%ADA'S CAFE: $5k → 8%ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $4k → 8%TEEN SUCCESS: $3k → 8%PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND COVID-19 RELIEF FUND: $13k → 8%MUSIC IN THE SCHOOLS: $5k → 8%RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING: $3k → 8%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 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
Achievekids

Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…

Education
2
East Palo Alto Academy Foundation

East palo alto academy foundation advocates for, advances, and raises funds to benefit the students and graduates of east palo alto academy, a charter school of the sequoia union high school district. our programs and resources are in…

Education
3
Exceptional Children's Foundation

The mission of exceptional children's foundation (ecf) is to provide the highest quality services for children and adults who are challenged with developmental, learning, and emotional disabilities - empowering them to reach their greatest…

Human Services
4
Institute for Applied Tinkering

Institute for Applied Tinkering IAT develops, practices and shares educational methods that challenge and support all children to engage deeply in their learning via real interests and real tools.

Youth Development
5
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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6
Bridge California

Education

Education
7
Allies for Every Child Inc

All children need a childhood. Allies for Every Child brings together and strengthens families, cultivating conditions for children to succeed in life. (Continues on Schedule O)

Human Services
8
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
9
Museum of Childrens Art

The Museum of Children's Art (MOCHA) in Oakland aims to ensure the arts are a fundamental part of the community by providing quality, hands-on art experiences, particularly for children at risk academically or in underserved areas. Their…

Arts & Culture
10
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
11
East Bay Agency for Children

For more than 70 years, East Bay Agency for Children continues to improve the well-being of children, youth and families by reducing the impact of trauma and social inequalities.

Health
12
Upward Scholars

Upward Scholars provides adult immigrants the boost they need to move up the economic ladder through education and career development support.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Palo Alto Community Fund; the most unlike its peers is Music in the Schools Foundation. 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

9 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.

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

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
6/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND: $13,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUNDRISE TOGETHER EDUCATION INC: $4,000 · EducationRISE TOGETHER EDUC…RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING: $2,500 · EducationRESOURCE AREA FOR …Music in the Schools Foundation: $5,000 · Arts & CultureMusic in the S…Kids & Art Foundation: $3,000 · HealthKids & Art Fo…ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $1,700 · HealthADOLESCENT CO…Ada's Cafe: $4,500 · EmploymentAda's CafeECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $4,000 · Food & NutritionECUMENICAL …SHINE TOGETHER INC: $2,500 · Youth Development
Philanthropy$13,000Education$6,500Arts & Culture$5,000Health$4,700Employment$4,500Food & Nutrition$4,000Youth Development$2,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND: $13,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMusic in the Schools Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAda's Cafe: $4,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRISE TOGETHER EDUCATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKids & Art Foundation: $3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $1,700 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The Palo Alto Communi…Atkinson FoundationEmbarcadero Media Fou…The David and Lucile …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Jacob L and Lillian H…John and Marcia Goldm…Los Altos Mountain Vi…Philanthropic Venture…AbbVie FoundationMorgan Stanley Global…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA20.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Atkinson Foundation · Embarcadero Media Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation · John and Marcia Goldman Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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 Woman's Club of Palo Alto funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Woman's Club of Palo Alto. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 9 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $30k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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