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Capital Impact 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.
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 $10k31 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $178k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
- $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Forever young foundation | $961,000 |
| ENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC | $250,000 |
| Opportunity Network | $55,000 |
| MENLO SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| Silicon Valley Foundation | $26,250 |
| UTAH BASKETBALL CLUB | $25,000 |
| Yapay Bolivia Foundation | $25,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| Him for Her | $15,000 |
| Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc | $12,000 |
| SF Partnership | $10,000 |
| First Things First Foundation | $10,000 |
| Apollo theater | $5,000 |
| UCLS Foundation | $5,000 |
| Foster city youth softball | $3,000 |
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 human-services grants (FY17–24, $111k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 23% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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
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 27% of Capital Impact 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.
50 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 36 since wound down; 27 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k 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
- FYFOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN8× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +33% · 29% of their budget
- ENENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +49%
- MSMENLO SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $205k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- CACHANCE ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +42%
- CLCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF UTAH INCone grant, 2022 · $30k
- TNTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORKgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +136%
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.
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…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden State Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Palo Alto Youth Robotics Association. 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 28 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) — 3% 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.
110 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. 110 of the 165 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 FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds ENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds MENLO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY NETWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH BASKETBALL CLUB ↗
- Who funds SPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HIM FOR HER INC ↗
- Who funds YAPAY BOLIVIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHANCE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LIAHONA MOTU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN HEART FUND ↗
- Who funds MARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANCER RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds BLACK GIRLS CODE INC ↗
- Who funds Thurgood Marshall College Fund ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS ↗
- Who funds Rising Star Outreach Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc ↗
- Who funds Davis Education Foundation ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Daffy Charitable Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Sorenson Legacy Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · United Way Worldwide · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Pga Tour Inc
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 Capital Impact 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.
- Connecticut Partnership for Children Inc — 84% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Basca Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pga Tour Inc — 0% 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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