Community Foundation of San Carlos
San Carlos, CA · EIN 84-2531005. Reported 64 grants totalling $515,500 to 37 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For Community Foundation of San Carlos, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 78% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,000. Half of what it reported fell between $5,000 and $10,000; the smallest was $2,000 and the largest $15,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| San Carlos Childrens Theatre Inc | San Carlos, CA | $39,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Each Green Corner | San Carlos, CA | $37,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| California Clubhouse | San Mateo, CA | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Upward Scholars | Redwood City, CA | $35,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Villages of San Mateo County | San Carlos, CA | $34,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Healthy Cities Tutoring Inc | San Carlos, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Learning Home Volunteers | San Carlos, CA | $30,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Multicultural Institute | Berkeley, CA | $29,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul Particular Council of San Mateo | San Mateo, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Friends for Youth Inc | Palo Alto, CA | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Melp-Ablecloset | San Carlos, CA | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Arbor Bay School | San Carlos, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Society of St Vincent De Paul Particular Council of San Mateo | San Mateo, CA | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| CASA Circulo Cultural Inc | Redwood City, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lifemoves | Santa Clara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| One Life Counseling Center | San Carlos, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Mateo County Union Community Alliance | San Mateo, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Samaritan House | San Mateo, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| CASA of San Mateo County | Redwood City, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cora Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse | San Mateo, CA | $8,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Starvista | San Carlos, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Voices of Recovery San Mateo County | Redwood City, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Brave Maker | Redwood City, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Friends of Redwood Hs | San Carlos, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Home & Hope | Burlingame, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Music for Minors Inc | San Mateo, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Partners and Advocates for Remarkable Children and Adults | Burlingame, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Peninsula Family Connections | Palo Alto, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Service League of San Mateo County | Redwood City, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| St Francis Center of Redwood City | Redwood City, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Wanda Women and Allies | Los Altos, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marine Science Institute | Redwood City, CA | $3,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Justice at Last Inc | San Francisco, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| There With Care of the Bay Area | Redwood City, CA | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Jobs for Youth - Smcounty | San Carlos, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Carlos Service Clubs for Seniors | San Carlos, CA | $2,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
13 of 37 (35%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- St Vincent Depaul-San Carlos Conference
HELPING LOW INCOME SAN CARLOS FAMILIES WITH THEIR BASIC NEEDS - The Multicultural Instatute
ASSISTANCE TO IMMIGRANT COMMUNITY - San Carlos Childrens Theatre
OFFERING A YOUTH THEATER PROGRAM - Melp-Ablecloset
OFFERING A MEDICAL EQUIPMENT LENDING PROGRAM - California Clubhouse
SERVICES FOR ADULTS WITH PSYCHIATRIC DISABILITIES - Each Green Corner
OFFERING EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS AND BUILDING AND MAINTAINING VEGETABLE GARDENS
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 28 of 37 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 27 | $160,000 | $5,000 |
| 2022 | 9 | $90,000 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $115,500 | $10,000 |
| 2024 | 16 | $150,000 | $10,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $9,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Community Foundation of San Carlos's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 16 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 113, San Carlos, CA, 94070.
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