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HISTORY SAN JOSE

HISTORY SAN JOSE (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,785 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($27,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2025
$2.6M
Funders on record
18
Grants received
$160k
Net assets
$275k
6/18 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%
01What it does

What History San Jose does

Mission

History San Jose preserves and enriches the cultural heritage of san jose and the santa clara valley through research, collections, partnerships, educational programs and events.

As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.

Program

  1. History San Jose catalyzes curiosity for thousands of young learners through our nine immersive field trip programs. In the 2024-2025 school year, our education team engaged over 10,000 students, including over 400 virtual field trip attendees. History San Jose hosts public programs including book talks, cultural celebrations, and festivals. In fiscal year 2025 we continued to build and expand on previous events like the spirit of 45, living history day; womens heritage day, sj roots, and cars in the park. History San Jose built up public awareness of our walking tours of history park and the peralta adobefallon house, offering tailored experiences for groups of all ages and interests. These personalized tours provide behind-the-scenes stories, hands-on history, and deeper connections to the people

    $2,038,675 spent$249,585 earned by the program
    100% of program spending

The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $2,038,675.

02The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20202020 Revenue 100 ($1.4M) Expenses 100 ($1.2M) Net assets 100 ($1.0M)2021 Revenue 122 ($1.7M) Expenses 95 ($1.2M) Net assets 161 ($1.6M)2022 Revenue 110 ($1.6M) Expenses 130 ($1.6M) Net assets 77 ($784k)2023 Revenue 138 ($2.0M) Expenses 179 ($2.2M) Net assets 58 ($594k)2024 Revenue 168 ($2.4M) Expenses 183 ($2.2M) Net assets 81 ($828k)2025 Revenue 178 ($2.6M) Expenses 227 ($2.8M) Net assets 27 ($275k)
202020212022202320242025
Revenue (178)Expenses (227)Net assets (27)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.8M to $929k (−48%).

$1.5M
$1.8M
$929k
$712k
$928k
$425k
202020212022202320242025
Total assetsTotal liabilities

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 60% · 2021 70% · 2022 60% · 2023 51% · 2024 48% · 2025 51%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

78% of HISTORY SAN JOSE’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (63% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 5,377 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

$223k
’20
$589k
’21
$13k
’22
−$190k
’23
$196k
’24
−$199k
’25
1.5
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

Chief executive

William Schroh Jr

President & CEO

Board chair

Vaughn Klebig

Board chair

As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.

202020212022202320242025
Listed111188911
Joined·+3+0+0+2+3
No longer listed·33011
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $7k → $10k.

5 of 18 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.

From the IRS filings of HISTORY SAN JOSE’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 17 of 18 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

HISTORY SAN JOSE has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 17% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 funders to its left

75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund HISTORY SAN JOSE.

17%
largest funder
50%
top three
~8
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 76% · 2018 82% · 2019 89% · 2020 72% · 2021 61% · 2022 75% · 2023 76% — broadly stable.

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

How long its funders stay

38% of HISTORY SAN JOSE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 33% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.

Where its funders are

98% of HISTORY SAN JOSE's grant income comes from California funders.

NY
CA
NM

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
California out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $69k arriving through sponsors registered in 4 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

HISTORY SAN JOSE has grown faster than half of the 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−8% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)12% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,230 arts & culture nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025

Government funding HISTORY SAN JOSE receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $6k on record.

Federal$6k
grants $6kcontracts $0
Top agencies
  • National Endowment for the Humanities$6k

Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.

Organizations like HISTORY SAN JOSE

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In California

Nationally

05Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

74% of spending goes to programs.

Program 74%Management 22%Fundraising 4%

Governance

10
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy–Whistleblower policy✓Document retention–Board reviewed the 990–Audited financials

Public support

88%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Files a return copy in 1 state

CA

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Questions and answers

Who funds HISTORY SAN JOSE?
HISTORY SAN JOSE (California) receives grants from 18 organizations whose IRS filings report $159,785 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($27,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does HISTORY SAN JOSE have?
IRS filings report 18 organizations giving $159,785 in grants to HISTORY SAN JOSE, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of HISTORY SAN JOSE?
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $27,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like HISTORY SAN JOSE find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.

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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2020–2025), and the filings of 18 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing