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Adobe 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.6M
- $250k+20 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VICTORIA AND ALBERT MUSEUM | $2,112,220 |
| MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $2,000,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC | $1,000,000 |
| AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS | $750,000 |
| DISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC | $500,000 |
| ASIAN LAW CAUCUS | $500,000 |
| FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $500,000 |
| OUTRIGHT ACTION INTERNATIONAL | $500,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $500,000 |
| EQUALITY NOW INC | $500,000 |
| CALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| THE ACTORS FUND OF AMERICA | $500,000 |
| THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC | $500,000 |
| HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY | $400,000 |
| SAN JOSE DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION | $300,000 |
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.
Your US giving — 88% of grant dollars ($73M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 12% that went abroad ($10M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $2.9M) 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.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 12% of all-years giving ($10M)
7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of Adobe Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MOMuseum of Modern Art2× · 2023–2025 · $4.0M · revenue +53%
- FNFIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +77%
- TTTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY2× · 2023–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +75%
Funded once
- TLTHE LONDON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1.0M
- DRDISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $1.0M
- TJTHE JED FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue +22%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
As an integral member of the san jose state university community, the san jose state university research foundation provides an entrepreneurial framework through which local, state and federal agencies, businesses and private foundations…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Silicon Valley Defense Group convenes experts in technology, investment, and government for discussions on how to better collaborate between the various groups. The comments and topics are then published on our website to help educate and…
The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Human Rights Watch Inc and the most unlike its peers is Asmp 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
56 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. 56 of the 71 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds FIRST NATIONS DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds OUTRIGHT INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Asian Law Caucus ↗
- Who funds BOWIE STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Winston-Salem State University Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Equality Now Inc ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds DISABILITY RIGHTS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Hispanic Heritage Foundation ↗
- Who funds VETSINTECH ↗
- Who funds MALDEF - MEXICAN AMERICAN LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cinequest Inc ↗
- Who funds KELSEY ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE FOR MIGRANT WOMEN ↗
- Who funds THE MIAMI FOUNDATION INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Tides Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · Valley Health Foundation (Vhf) · Silicon Valley Creates · The Ford Foundation · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Milligan Family 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 Adobe 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.
- Disability Rights Fund Inc — 10% of income from government
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.
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