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10129 Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$105k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$24k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.

Arts & Culture$324kEnvironment$24kEducation$20kPhilanthropy$17kHealth$17kHousing & Shelter$12kCommunity Improvement$5kHuman Services$4kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $55k
$4,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$953k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROOT DIVISION$24,338
MUSEUM OF CRAFT AND DESIGN$20,530
GLBT HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
OPEN TAI CHI FOUNDATION$5,916
WILDFLOWERS INSTITUTE$5,000
THE GRABHORN INSTITUTE$5,000
MERCY HOUSING$5,000
CCDC$5,000
ARTCENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN$5,000
HOUSING ACTION COALITION$4,500
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART$4,000
THE BATTERY FOUNDATION$4,000
SFMOMA$2,500
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,000
SOUTHEAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER$1,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY21–23, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%BAY AREA WOMEN'S AND CHILDRENS CENTER: $1k → 10%SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $2k → 10%AT THE CROSSROAD: $1k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $1k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$279k · 13 repeat orgs$145k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
16

Total granted

$279k
$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-1%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesSocial SciencePhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • RD
    Root Division
    2× · 2023–2024 · $26k · revenue +10%
  • GI
    GRABHORN INSTITUTE
    3× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +154%
  • FM
    FORT MASON CENTER
    3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • WM
    WORLD MONUMENTS FUND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +78%
  • AA
    ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2019 · $15k
  • 5C
    509 CULTURAL CENTER
    one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue -87%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
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3
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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4
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
5
San Francisco Camerawork Inc

SF Camerawork provokes discovery, experimentation, and exchange through exhibitions and experiences for all who value new ideas in photography.

Arts & Culture
6
Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco

The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…

Arts & Culture
7
The Lab Sf

The lab gives significant funding, time, and space to traditionally underrepresented artists. we seek to transform alongside artistic practices in order to engage meaningfully with visionary communities whose economic and cultural…

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8
San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Company

Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.

Arts & Culture
9
Intersection for the Arts

consulting and presenting opportunities to artists. We promote creative expression as a means for reflection, for celebration, for economic growth and for finding solutions to the challenges that confront our communities.

Arts & Culture
10
The Z Space Studio

Operating out of an old can factory in the Mission District of San Francisco, Z Space now activates two performance spaces, an 85-seat black box and a 244-seat main stage, with a warehouse aesthetic and an adventurous edge.

Arts & Culture
11
Marin Open Studios

Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…

Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Architectural Heritage

The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cutting Ball Theater and the most unlike its peers is Thomas & Eva Fong Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyVulnerable Population Suppo…Family Philanthropic Founda…Public Engagement & AdvocacySystems Change AdvocacyIndependent Schools and Ear…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr16%6%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%30%35–55yr12%15%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%6%<5yr16%4%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr17%56%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr12%16%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/34
the rest of the field
15%
9,347/62,232

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

34 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 34 of the 40 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
17/34
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Museum of Craft and Design — $80,093 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Craft and DesignWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $50,000 · Arts & CultureWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INCRoot Division — $26,338 · Arts & CultureRoot Division509 CULTURAL CENTER — $12,000 · Arts & Culture509 CULTURAL CENTERGRABHORN INSTITUTE — $10,800 · Arts & CultureGRABHORN INSTITUTE+6 more — $7,600 · Arts & CultureGLOBAL HERITAGE FUND — $101,200 · Social ScienceGLOBAL HERITAGE FUNDWildflowers Institute — $23,550 · OtherWildflowers InstituteALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION — $15,000 · OtherALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATIONGay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society — $10,000 · OtherGay Lesbian Bisexual Tra…Dance Brigade — $6,000 · OtherDance BrigadeMERCY HOUSING — $5,000 · OtherMERCY HOUSINGCCDC — $5,000 · OtherCCDCSAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE — $5,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO ART INSTIT…UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION NATIONAL MUSEUM OF AFRICAN ART — $4,000 · Other+9 more — $12,122 · Other+9 moreOpen Tai Chi Foundation — $10,316 · EducationART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN — $5,000 · Education826 Valencia — $2,500 · EducationPROJECT COLOR CORPS — $1,000 · EducationTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION — $1,000 · EducationTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION — $16,000 · PhilanthropySELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY — $2,000 · Human ServicesAT THE CROSSROADS — $2,000 · Human ServicesBay Area Womens and Childrens Center — $1,000 · Human ServicesSan Francisco Housing Action Coalition — $4,500 · Housing & Shelter
Arts & Culture$186,831Social Science$101,200Other$90,672Education$19,816Philanthropy$16,000Human Services$5,000Housing & Shelter$4,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetGLOBAL HERITAGE FUND — $101,200 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetMuseum of Craft and Design — $80,093 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD MONUMENTS FUND INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRoot Division — $26,338 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWildflowers Institute — $23,550 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetTHE BATTERY FOUNDATION — $16,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budget509 CULTURAL CENTER — $12,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGRABHORN INSTITUTE — $10,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOpen Tai Chi Foundation — $10,316 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetGay Lesbian Bisexual Transgender Historical Society — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDance Brigade — $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ART INSTITUTE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Housing Action Coalition — $4,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWomens Audio Mission — $2,522 over 1y, 0.1% of budget826 Valencia — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORT MASON CENTER — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHEAST ASIAN DEVELOPMENT CENTER — $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCutting Ball Theater — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC VISION FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKQED INC — $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Womens and Childrens Center — $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPROJECT COLOR CORPS — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS & EVA FONG FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAGIC THEATRE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCounterPulse — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…Walter and Elise Haas…The William & Flora H…Phyllis C Wattis Foun…The Zellerbach Family…Kenneth Rainin Founda…Silicon Valley Commun…Fleishhacker Foundati…Koret FoundationMcNabb Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA27.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Phyllis C Wattis Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Fleishhacker Foundation · Koret Foundation · McNabb Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization 10129 Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to 10129 Foundation?

Find your warmest path to 10129 Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 40 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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