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Belvedere Community Foundation

Provide grants to support projects that will preserve and enhance the quality of life in belvedere and surrounding areas.

$156k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$61k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Recreation & Sports$269kArts & Culture$218kEducation$97kEnvironment$69kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kPublic Benefit$50kHuman Services$31kCommunity Improvement$30kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $139,737, the rows itemized in this filing. The $156,465 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $16,728 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $61k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CITY OF BELVEDERE$61,042
YELLOW BUS CHALLENGE$15,000
BELVEDERE-TIBURON LANDMARKS SOCIETY$12,800
ST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH$10,275
REED UNION SCHOOL DISTRICT PTA$10,000
BELVEDERE-TIBURON LIBRARY FOUNDATION$9,878
TOWN OF TIBURON$7,242
TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE INSTITUTE$7,000
TIBURON PENINSULA FOUNDATION$6,500
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY18–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%Marin Villages: $8k → 8%Marin Villages: $5k → 8%Marin Villages: $5k → 8%TRANSFORMATIVE JUSTICE INSTITUTE: $7k → 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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$741k · 12 repeat orgs$167k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

$741k
$136k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+3%
+31%

Still filing today

58%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • RS
    Reed Schools Foundation
    2× · 2020–2021 · $51k · revenue +3%
  • BL
    BELVEDERE-TIBURON LANDMARKS SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $48k · revenue +196%
  • NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2018–2024 · $32k · revenue +48%

Funded once

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LANDgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +27%
  • TP
    Tiburon Peninsula Soccer League
    one grant, 2018 · $30k · revenue -25%
  • TP
    Tiburon Peninsula Traffic Relief
    one grant, 2021 · $15k
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
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
2
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
3
Berkeley Public Library Foundation

The Berkeley Public Library Foundation (BPLF) amplifies the public investment to make a great public library extraordinary. To that end, we provide vital funds and ongoing advocacy to advance the Library's mission, vision, and strategic…

Philanthropy
4
Marin Bocce Federation

We are dedicated to promoting the game of bocce to all local citizens to enhance their social and physical well-being. we utilize volunteers and community support to provide a low-cost activity at the marin bocce federation facility. we…

Recreation & Sports
5
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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6
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
7
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
8
Save the Bay

Our vision is a future where everyone benefits from a healthy San Francisco Bay, resilient to climate change and ringed by 100,000 acres of vibrant tidal marsh.

Environment
9
The Marin Football Club

To foster local, state, national or international sports competition with a particular emphasis on youth soccer.

Recreation & Sports
10
Monterey Bay United
Recreation & Sports
11
Big Sur Land Trust

The mission of the Big Sur Land Trust is to inspire love of the land and conservation of our treasured landscapes.

Environment
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adopt a Family of Marin; the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society Inc. 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

13 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. 13 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

City of Belvedere: $406,348 · OtherCity of BelvedereReed Schools Foundation: $50,700 · OtherReed Schools FoundationTiburon Peninsula Soccer League: $30,000 · OtherYELLOW BUS CHALLENGE: $30,000 · OtherST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $26,075 · Other+10 more: $99,392 · Other+10 moreTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST …NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $31,500 · EnvironmentNATIONAL A…Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $69,016 · EducationBelvedere …PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,500 · EducationPALOS VERD…BELVEDERE NURSERY SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationBELVEDERE …BELVEDERE-TIBURON LANDMARKS SOCIETY: $47,800 · Arts & CultureMARIN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureMarin Villages: $18,000 · Human ServicesTransformative Justice Institute: $7,000 · Human ServicesTiburon Peninsula Foundation: $20,000 · Philanthropy
Other$642,515Environment$81,500Education$80,516Arts & Culture$57,800Human Services$25,000Philanthropy$20,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBelvedere Tiburon Library Foundation: $69,016 over 6y, 3.5% of budgetReed Schools Foundation: $50,700 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBELVEDERE-TIBURON LANDMARKS SOCIETY: $47,800 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $31,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTiburon Peninsula Soccer League: $30,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTiburon Peninsula Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetMarin Villages: $18,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetMARIN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBELVEDERE NURSERY SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds Belvedere Tiburon Library Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Reed Schools Foundation ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
  • Who funds BELVEDERE-TIBURON LANDMARKS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds Tiburon Peninsula Soccer League ↗
  • Who funds Tiburon Peninsula Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Marin Villages ↗
  • Who funds MARIN SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN ↗
  • Who funds Transformative Justice Institute ↗
  • Who funds PALOS VERDES PENINSULA EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BELVEDERE NURSERY SCHOOL ↗

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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Marin Community Found…5 Ryan FoundationThe Griffith Family F…The Fred Gellert Fami…Jewish Community Fede…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …
Marin Community FoundationCA22.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · 5 Ryan Foundation · The Griffith Family Foundation · The Fred Gellert Family Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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 Belvedere Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Belvedere Community 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
    1report 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
    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.

    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 25 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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