Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation
San Jose, CA · EIN 94-6112270. Reported 52 grants totalling $723,857 to 49 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, 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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 49 distinct organizations, with 33% 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. 6% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $9,749. Half of what it reported fell between $8,011 and $10,000; the smallest was $5,119 and the largest $236,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County | San Jose, CA | $236,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Rotacare Bay Area Inc | Sunnyvale, CA | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Our City Forest | San Jose, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Vietnam Health Education & Literature Projects | Milpitas, CA | $16,739 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| African American Community Services Agency | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Animal Assisted Happiness Inc | Sunnyvale, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grace Solutions | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Latinas Contra Cancer | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Life Services Alternative Inc | Campbell, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mercy Beyond Borders | Santa Clara, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Roots Community Health Center | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Jose Childrens Discovery Museum | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Jose Childrens Musical Theater | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Jose Conservation Corps | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Jose Jazz | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| School of Arts and Culture at Mhp | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Valley Verde | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Billy Defrank Lesbian and Gay Community Center | San Jose, CA | $9,994 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hunger at Home | San Jose, CA | $9,958 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA | $9,911 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Silicon Valley Shakespeare | San Jose, CA | $9,811 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| La Raza Historical Society of Santa Clara Valley | San Jose, CA | $9,788 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Boy Scouts of America | San Jose, CA | $9,710 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Pacific Clinics | Los Gatos, CA | $9,635 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Trash Punx | San Jose, CA | $9,574 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| California Trolley and Railroad Corporation | San Jose, CA | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Momentum for Health | San Jose, CA | $9,449 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Jose Bridge Communities | San Jose, CA | $9,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Homefirst Services of Santa Clara County | San Jose, CA | $8,972 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Health Trust | San Jose, CA | $8,711 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Healthright 360 | San Francisco, CA | $8,613 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Good Karma Bikes | San Jose, CA | $8,419 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Movimiento De Arte Y Cultura Latino Americana De San Jose Incorporated | San Jose, CA | $8,390 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Recovery Cafe San Jose Inc | San Jose, CA | $8,070 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Envision Your Pathway Inc | Morgan Hill, CA | $8,011 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Opera San Jose Incorporated | San Jose, CA | $7,608 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Silicon Valley Urban Debate League | San Jose, CA | $7,570 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Kidango Inc | Fremont, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Symphony San Jose | San Jose, CA | $7,326 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| History San Jose | San Jose, CA | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Jose Dance Theatre | San Jose, CA | $6,278 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cancer Carepoint Inc | San Jose, CA | $5,837 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Santa Clara County Dental Foundation | San Jose, CA | $5,584 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Lifemoves | Santa Clara, CA | $5,555 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Local Color | Campbell, CA | $5,243 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Hillel the Foundation for Jewish Campus Life | San Jose, CA | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Eating Disorders Resource Center | Campbell, CA | $5,182 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Guadalupe River Park Conservancy | San Jose, CA | $5,119 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
2 of 49 (4%) 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.
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RICE PLANTING AND HARVESTING EQUIPMENT - Our City Forest
GENTLY USED, FUEL-EFFICIENT VEHICLE - Grace Solutions
REPLACE FRONT AND REAR DOORS - San Jose Conservation Corps
2 COMMERCIAL FRIDGES AND 1 FREEZER - San Jose Jazz
SPEAKERS, AMPS, MIXER, ETC - School of Arts and Culture at Mhp
WIRELESS RECEIVER, TRANSMITTER, MICS, ETC
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 38 of 49 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 3 | $40,000 | $10,000 |
| 2021 | 16 | $150,796 | $9,749 |
| 2022 | 12 | $120,152 | $8,602 |
| 2023 | 21 | $412,909 | $9,574 |
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
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.
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 $9,749 -- 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 Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 21 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: 1690 Senter Road, San Jose, CA, 95112.
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