Farrington Historical Foundation
San Jose, CA · EIN 77-0411342. Reported 84 grants totalling $1,373,991 to 44 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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 Farrington Historical Foundation, the IRS classifies it under arts & culture rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE A82Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 35% 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. 40% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $10,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,300 and the largest $116,504. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
5 of those grants were non-cash -- goods, property or services worth $368,811 in total. In-kind giving is real support but it is not a cheque.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Junior League of San Jose | San Jose, CA | $484,511 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA | $71,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rebuilding Together Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA | $64,200 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Ashworth Remillard | San Jose, CA | $60,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Via Rehabilitation Services Inc | Redwood City, CA | $48,555 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| One Step Closer Therapeutic Riding | Morgan Hill, CA | $48,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | Milpitas, CA | $44,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Walden West Outdoor School Foundation | Saratoga, CA | $40,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| San Jose Museum of Art Association | San Jose, CA | $35,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Los Gatos Museum Association | Los Gatos, CA | $25,445 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Gilbert and Sullivan Society of San | San Jose, CA | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| History San Jose | San Jose, CA | $24,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Village Harvest Corporation | San Jose, CA | $22,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Child Advocates of Silicon Valley Inc | San Jose, CA | $22,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Healthier Kids Foundation Inc | San Jose, CA | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Ronald Mcdonald House Charities-Bay Area | Palo Alto, CA | $21,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Montalvo Association | Saratoga, CA | $20,400 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Karma Bikes | San Jose, CA | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Steinway Society the Bay Area | Campbell, CA | $16,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Preservation Action Council of San Jose | San Jose, CA | $15,730 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Japanese American Museum of San Jose | San Jose, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Santa Clara County Historical & Genealogical Society | Milpitas, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Triton Museum of Art | Santa Clara, CA | $14,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Association of the Los Altos Historical Museum | Los Altos, CA | $13,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| South Bay Guitar Society of San Jose | Cupertino, CA | $12,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| African American Heritage House Inc | San Jose, CA | $12,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Environmental Volunteers Inc | Palo Alto, CA | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Campbell Museum Foundation | Campbell, CA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Pursuit of Excellence - South Bay | Los Gatos, CA | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Community School of Music and Arts | Mountain View, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Peninsula Food Runners Inc | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Recovery Cafe San Jose Inc | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Resource Area for Teaching | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| San Jose Taiko Group Inc | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Jose Youth Symphony | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| School of Arts and Culture at Mhp | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Silicon Valley Pet Project | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Downtown Streets Inc | San Jose, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Jose Womans Club | San Jose, CA | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| San Jose Childrens Musical Theater | San Jose, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Vanguard Music and Performing Arts | Santa Clara, CA | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Pivotal Connections | San Jose, CA | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Assistance League of Los Gatos- Saratoga | Los Gatos, CA | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Operation Freedom Paws | Gilroy, CA | $5,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
21 of 44 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- Junior League of San Jose
FUNDS TO SUPPORT JLSJ'S VOLUNTEER WORK TO HELP THE LOCAL COMMUNITY - Wildlife Center of Silicon Valley
CONTINUING OUR QUALITY CARE FOR WILDLIFE IN NEED - Wildlife Center of Sv
FOOD, MEDICATION & HOUSING - Ashworth-Remillard House
FUNDING GENERAL OPERATIONS - One Step Closer Therapeutic Riding
EQUINE-ASSISTED PROGRAM FOR VETERANS - Via Services West
RECREATIONAL/THERAPEUTIC ART PROGRAM - CAMP VIA WEST
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 39 of 44 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- 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 | 16 | $263,649 | $10,500 |
| 2021 | 15 | $261,369 | $11,500 |
| 2022 | 19 | $279,169 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 18 | $292,004 | $10,750 |
| 2024 | 16 | $277,800 | $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
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
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 $10,000 -- 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 Farrington Historical Foundation's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 1615 Dry Creek Road, San Jose, CA, 95125.
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