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Bohannon 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.

$63k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Human Services$464kEducation$268kYouth Development$172kHousing & Shelter$163kHealth$129kEnvironment$61kCommunity Improvement$38kCrime & Legal$14kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REBUILDING TOGETHER PENINSULA$10,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA$10,000
LIFEMOVES$5,000
ST FRANCIS CENTER$5,000
SAN MATEO POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE$5,000
SAN MATEO POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE$2,500
PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS$2,500
SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$2,500
PLANNED PARENTHOOD - MAR MONTE$2,500
SUSTAINABLE SAN MATEO COUNTY$2,500
CAMINAR FOR MENTAL HEALTH$2,500
KIWANIS CLUB OF WOODSIDE TERRACE AM$2,000
ROTARY CLUB OF MENLO PARK FOUNDATION$2,000
ARAGON HIGH SCHOOL$1,250
CORA$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.

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Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%JEWISH FAMILY & CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $5k → 10%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $25k → 7%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $12k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $3k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $3k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $3k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $1k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $1k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS: $1k → 7%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $3k → 7%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $3k → 7%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $3k → 7%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $3k → 7%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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$905k · 42 repeat orgs$441k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
48

Total granted

$905k
$433k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+53%
+16%

Still filing today

69%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesCrime & LegalRecreation & 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

  • SAMARITAN HOUSE
    3× · 2020–2023 · $228k · revenue +50%
  • SM
    San Mateo Police Activities League Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +8%
  • TP
    THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM
    2× · 2020–2021 · $75k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • CO
    Children of Shelters
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -23%
  • KA
    Kids & Art Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +16%
  • PC
    PIVOTAL CONNECTIONSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue +58%

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
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

—
2
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation

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
3
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
4
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
5
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
6
Mario Pedrozzi Scholarship Foundation
Education
7
San Mateo Parents Nursery School

San mateo parents nursery school is a diverse community dedicated to fostering the learning and growth of children and adults. its goal is to create a loving, suppportive, empowering environment for children and their families.

—
8
Transportation Alternatives for Marin
Public Benefit
9
Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends

Santa Clara City Library Foundation and Friends is a nonprofit organization formed to enrich the local community by providing the Santa Clara City Library with funding and advocacy to enhance its facilities, programs, and services.

Education
10
Marcella Foundation
Philanthropy
11
San Francisco High School of the Arts

San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…

Education
12
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family and Children's Services and the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr16%29%20–35yr15%18%35–55yr11%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr14%8%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr16%39%20–35yr15%24%35–55yr11%17%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/55
the rest of the field
10%
1,499/14,307

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

52 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. 52 of the 98 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/52
Grantees still filing
40/52
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SAMARITAN HOUSE — $227,500 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSEChildren of Shelters — $100,000 · OtherChildren of SheltersHIP HOUSINGHUMAN INVESTMENT PROJECT — $78,000 · OtherHIP HOUSINGHUMAN INVESTMENT PROJECTPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $75,000 · OtherPIVOTAL CONNECTIONSTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM — $75,000 · OtherTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAMSt Francis Center — $55,000 · OtherSt Francis CenterSAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY ED FOUND — $35,000 · OtherLIFEMOVES — $30,000 · OtherHILLSDALE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $30,000 · Other+71 more — $142,600 · Other+71 moreSan Mateo Police Activities League Inc — $140,050 · Youth DevelopmentSan Mateo Poli…BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS C…+1 more — $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentKids & Art Foundation — $100,000 · HealthKids & Art…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $13,000 · HealthPLANNED PA…SEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Health+3 more — $5,000 · HealthPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE — $37,000 · Human ServicesPENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC — $10,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $5,000 · Human ServicesGRASSROOTS ECOLOGY — $50,000 · EnvironmentSustainable San Mateo County — $10,000 · EnvironmentRebuilding Together Peninsula — $50,000 · Housing & ShelterMONTERRA COMMUNITY FUND — $30,000 · Community ImprovementROTARY CLUB OF MENLO PARK FOUNDATION — $8,000 · Community Improvement
Other$848,100Youth Development$171,050Health$123,000Human Services$62,500Environment$60,000Housing & Shelter$50,000Community Improvement$38,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE — $227,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSan Mateo Police Activities League Inc — $140,050 over 5y, 11% of budgetChildren of Shelters — $100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetKids & Art Foundation — $100,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS — $75,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM — $75,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSt Francis Center — $55,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGRASSROOTS ECOLOGY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula — $50,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE — $37,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHILLSDALE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $30,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMONTERRA COMMUNITY FUND — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSan Mateo Public Library Foundation — $20,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC — $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable San Mateo County — $10,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetJOBTRAIN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF MENLO PARK FOUNDATION — $8,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA FAMILY FOUNDATION — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetService League of San Mateo County DBA Hope House — $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST — $4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE PALO ALTO JUNIOR MUSEUM & ZOO — $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetJack McGovern Coats Disease Foundation — $2,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN PARKINSON DISEASE ASSOC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN YOUTH SOCCER ORGANIZATION — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Bicycle Coalition — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS FOR YOUTH INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRING ME A BOOK FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCASA of San Mateo County — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVIA HEART PROJECT — $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF FOSTER CITY FOUNDATION — $425 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ODYSSEY SCHOOL — $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY CITIES TUTORING INC — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJSC SOCCER CLUB — $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUDENTS INC — $150 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Atkinson FoundationThe David and Lucile …The Palo Alto Communi…Danford FoundationLos Altos Mountain Vi…Bothin FoundationSand Hill FoundationGordon E and Betty I …Jewish Community Fede…Community Foundation …The San Bruno Communi…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA36.3× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Danford Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Community Foundation of San Carlos · The San Bruno Community 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 Bohannon 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%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    19report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    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.

    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 98 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.

    Source object · view filing

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