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Acacia Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Education$325kHealth$200kPublic Safety & Disaster$153kScience & Tech$119kArts & Culture$115kEnvironment$100k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $50k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN$50,000
FOOTPRINT PROJECT$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$25,000
BELVEDERE-TIBURON LIBRARY FOUNDATION$25,000
HOPE CRISIS RESPONSE NETWORK$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FOOTPRINT PROJECT: $50k → 11%LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100k → 8%BELVEDERE TIBORON LIBRARY: $50k → 8%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHOONY: $50k → 10%FRIENDS OF CAMP SEA LAB: $15k → 12%NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $50k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $100k → 16%FOOTPRINT PROJECT: $50k → 11%BELVEDERE-TIBURON LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $25k → 10%FRIENDS OF CAMP SEA LAB: $104k → 12%NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $50k → 9%FOOTPRINT PROJECT: $48k → 11%BELVEDERE TIBORON LIBRARY: $25k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $15k → 10%BELVEDERE-TIBURON LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $25k → 8%LARK THEATER: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$681k · 7 repeat orgs$230k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

$681k
$225k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+50%
+25%

Still filing today

71%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FP
    FOOTPRINT PROJECT
    3× · 2021–2024 · $148k · revenue +585%
  • NT
    NATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN
    2× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +107%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY
    3× · 2021–2024 · $90k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • UB
    UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $100k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • LT
    LARK THEATERgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +25%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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2
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
3
Berkeley Lab Foundation

To support the scientific and educational purposes of the regents of the university of california (the "university"), in its specific capacity as manager and operator of the lawrence berkeley national laboratory and to carry on other…

Education
4
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
5
Uc Santa Cruz Foundation

To benefit the university of california santa cruz.

Education
6
San Francisco Green Film Festival

San Francisco Green Film Festival's (SFGFF) mission is to educate and connect communities through forward thinking programs of environmental films, dialogues, and action opportunities.

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7
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
San Francisco Architectural Heritage

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

Arts & Culture
10
Foundation of California State University Monterey Bay

To further the scientific, literary, educational and charitable purposes of california state university, monterey bay, including fundraising, development, endowment management, financial assistance, public relations and other support.

Education
11
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
12
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of California San Francisco Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Hope Crisis Response Network Inc- Hcrn. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

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

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 12 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FRIENDS OF CAMP SEA LAB: $118,986 · OtherFRIENDS OF CAMP SEA LABUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTER: $100,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF TEXAS MD ANDERSON CANCER CENTE…BELVEDERE TIBORON LIBRARY: $75,000 · OtherBELVEDERE TIBORON LIBRARYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $100,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE…Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $50,000 · EducationBelvedere Tiburon Library Fo…FOOTPRINT PROJECT: $147,500 · Public Safety & DisasterFOOTPRINT PROJEC…SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $90,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISC…LARK THEATER: $25,000 · Arts & CultureLARK THEATERNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $100,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL TR…HOPE CRISIS RESPONSE NETWORK INC- HCRN: $5,000 · Philanthropy
Other$393,986Education$250,000Public Safety & Disaster$147,500Arts & Culture$115,000Environment$100,000Philanthropy$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOOTPRINT PROJECT: $147,500 over 3y, 8.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL TROPICAL BOTANICAL GARDEN: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $90,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetLARK THEATER: $25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOPE CRISIS RESPONSE NETWORK INC- HCRN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

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

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Donor Advised Charita…
Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Acacia Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Acacia Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Acacia Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Acacia 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

    Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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