· Private foundation
Alafi Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMEN'S DAYTIME DROP-IN CENTER | $25,000 |
| SANDIA CREEK RANCH AUXILIARY FOUNDATION | $10,400 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN | $10,000 |
| SCHOOLS OF SACRED HEART | $10,000 |
| HAMILTON FAMILIES | $10,000 |
| WOMEN'S ALLIANCE FOR KNOWLEDGE EXCHANGE | $5,000 |
| WELCOME HOME | $2,118 |
| MARIN AGRICULTURE LAND TRUST | $2,060 |
| MARIN OPEN SPACE TRUST | $2,000 |
| THE SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO | $2,000 |
| NORTH BRIDGE ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| MARIN PRIMARY AND MIDDLE SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| IGNITE | $2,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY | $200 |
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 human-services grants (FY21–24, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of Alafi Family 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. Read by recipient address, 92% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +131% since the first grant, against +79% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
- WDWOMENS DAYTIME DROP-IN CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $205k · revenue +131%
- MPMARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL4× · 2021–2024 · $22k · revenue +15%
- IIGNITE5× · 2018–2024 · $21k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- UFUCSF FOUNDATION FOR PALLIATIVE CAREone grant, 2018 · $100k
- SFSAN FRANCISCO WALDORF SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $34k
- SHSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $20k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ignite and the most unlike its peers is Diaper Bank of Greater Cleveland. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
20 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. 20 of the 31 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 WOMENS DAYTIME DROP-IN CENTER ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds IGNITE ↗
- Who funds NORTH BRIDGE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds Sandia Creek Ranch Aux Foundation ↗
- Who funds WILD SALMON CENTER ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE-NORTH COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIN OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds Arhoolie Foundation ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF DANCE ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Playhouse ↗
- Who funds The Aurora Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds MARIN AGRICULTURAL LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds SCANDINAVIAN SCHOOL IN SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds DIAPER BANK OF GREATER CLEVELAND ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED 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: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Alafi Family 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.
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.