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The Health Trust

San Jose, CA · EIN 94-6050231. Reported 88 grants totalling $13.1M to 55 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

55organizations funded
$128,218median reported grant
$13.1Mgranted, 2020-2023
38%of grantees funded again the next year
11%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For The Health Trust, the IRS classifies it under health care rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE E99) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 55 distinct organizations, with 11% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 38% 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 $128,218. Half of what it reported fell between $75,000 and $170,000; the smallest was $5,814 and the largest $1,200,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
1 grant
$10,000 - $25,000
2 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
4 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
26 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
50 grants
$250,000 Or More
5 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Loaves & Fishes Family KitchenSan Jose, CA$1,420,000222023
Roots Community Health CenterOakland, CA$930,800442023
Gardner Family Health Network IncAlviso, CA$789,500432023
VeggielutionSan Jose, CA$729,555222021
Santa Clara County Public Health DepartmentSan Jose, CA$644,757112021
Youth AllianceHollister, CA$540,000332022
Silicon Valley Community FoundationMountain View, CA$525,000332023
African American Community Services AgencySan Jose, CA$374,812222021
Community Food Bank of San Benito CountyHollister, CA$360,666332022
Indian Health Center of Santa Clara ValleySan Jose, CA$307,500222023
West Valley Community Services of Santa Clara County IncCupertino, CA$300,000222022
First 5 San BenitoHollister, CA$291,043222023
Community Health Partnership of Santa Clara County IncorporatedSan Jose, CA$280,340222021
School Health Clinics of Santa Clara CountySan Jose, CA$275,000222022
Sun Street CentersSalinas, CA$248,000332022
Young Mens Christian Association of Silicon ValleySan Jose, CA$227,081222021
Public Health InstituteOakland, CA$219,369112020
Foundation for Hispanic EducationSan Jose, CA$215,000112020
Valley VerdeSan Jose, CA$214,500222021
Amigos De Guadalupe Center for Justice and EmpowermentSan Jose, CA$204,256112021
School of Arts and Culture at MhpSan Jose, CA$203,000222023
South County Community Health Center IncE Palo Alto, CA$202,500112021
South County Community ServicesGilroy, CA$195,700222022
Jovenes De Antano Del Condado De San BenitoHollister, CA$186,250222023
Central Coast Young Mens Christian AssociationMonterey, CA$183,323222023
Community Services AgencyMountain View, CA$175,000112022
Hunger at HomeSan Jose, CA$172,500112020
Bay Area Community HealthFremont, CA$170,000112021
Asian Americans for Community Involvement of Santa Clara Co IncSan Jose, CA$165,000112023
North East Medical ServicesDaly City, CA$165,000112023
Bill Wilson CenterSanta Clara, CA$152,500112023
Family Supportive Housing IncSan Jose, CA$150,000112022
Parents Helping Parents IncSan Jose, CA$150,000112021
Notre Dame High School San JoseSan Jose, CA$148,780112021
Working Partnerships USASan Jose, CA$132,500222021
Self-Help for the ElderlySan Francisco, CA$132,000112023
Rahima International FoundationSan Jose, CA$125,000112023
Latina Coalition of Silicon ValleySan Jose, CA$116,665222023
Guadalupe River Park ConservancySan Jose, CA$115,165222023
Latinas Contra CancerSan Jose, CA$114,165222023
Portuguese Organization for Social Services and OpportunitiesSan Jose, CA$100,000112023
City of San Jose Parks Recreation and Neighborhood ServicesSan Jose, CA$98,000222023
Korean American Community Services IncSan Jose, CA$77,500112022
Catholic Charities of Santa Clara CountySan Jose, CA$75,000112023
Fostering PromiseSan Jose, CA$75,000112023
Mosaic AmericaSaratoga, CA$75,000112023
Valley Health Foundation VhfSan Jose, CA$57,500112021
The 1440 FoundationSaratoga, CA$55,000112021
Child Advocates of Silicon Valley IncMilpitas, CA$52,500112022
Marthas KitchenSan Jose, CA$50,000112021
Harrison Maldonado Associates IncWashington, DC$40,000112020
Castellano Family FoundationSan Jose, CA$25,000112020
Humane Society Silicon ValleyMilpitas, CA$18,267112020
Nkr ConsultingSunnyvale, CA$10,000112021
San Jose Bridge CommunitiesSan Jose, CA$5,814112020

25 of 55 (45%) 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.

It also reported 4 groups of grants to individuals -- scholarships, emergency assistance and similar. Schedule I reports these by category with a headcount and never by name, so there is nothing here we could publish about the recipients even if we wanted to.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 of 55 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.

Human Services
17 orgs
Health Care
8 orgs
Food & Nutrition
2 orgs
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
2 orgs
Education
2 orgs
Arts & Culture
2 orgs
Community Improvement
1 org
Crime & Legal
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202022$3,402,251$125,742
202127$3,864,557$125,800
202217$2,300,000$150,000
202322$3,500,000$112,500

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

100% of its giving went to organizations in California. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.

California
$13.0M
District of Columbia
$40K

Down to the city

San Jose, CA
$7.0M
Hollister, CA
$1.4M
Oakland, CA
$1.2M
Alviso, CA
$790K
Mountain View, CA
$700K
Cupertino, CA
$300K

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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.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc42 shared recipientsSilicon Valley Community Foundation42 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund35 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc33 shared recipientsKaiser Foundation Hospitals31 shared recipientsThe Sobrato Family Foundation27 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $128,218 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in California.
  4. 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 The Health Trust'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 22 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: 3180 Newberry Drive 200, San Jose, CA, 95118.

EIN 94-6050231 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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