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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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
15
States reached
$961k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$5.3MInternational$2.1MRecreation & Sports$424kHealth$172kEmployment$170kHuman Services$124kCommunity Improvement$98kPhilanthropy$64kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k31 grants · $53k
  • $10k–50k9 grants · $178k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.2M
$2,280
Median grant
15
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
First Things First Foundation$10,000
SF Partnership$10,000
UCLS Foundation$5,000
Apollo theater$5,000
Individual grant recipient$3,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Send It: $213 → 11%Salesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $12k → 14%Thornwell: $300 → 18%Connecticut Partnership for Children Inc: $200 → 12%One Simple Wish: $66 → 11%Camp Kesem: $5k → 14%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $20k → 8%San Francisco 49ers Foundation: $20k → 8%Camp Kesem: $5k → 14%San Francisco 49ers Foundation: $15k → 8%San Francisco 49ers Foundation: $15k → 8%Rising Star Outreach Inc: $5k → 8%Rising Star Outreach Inc: $5k → 8%Rising Star Outreach Inc: $5k → 8%Innocence Project Inc: $3k → 17%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.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
IL
NY
MA
IN
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
DE
AZ
NC
SC
DC
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 27% of Capital Impact Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Capital Impact Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$8.2M · 50 repeat orgs$501k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
84

Total granted

$8.2M
$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+47%

Still filing today

66%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $100k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationInternationalHuman ServicesHealthArts & 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

  • FY
    FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +33% · 29% of their budget
  • EN
    ENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +49%
  • MS
    MENLO SCHOOL
    7× · 2018–2024 · $205k · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • CA
    CHANCE ACADEMYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +42%
  • CL
    CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF UTAH INC
    one grant, 2022 · $30k
  • TN
    THE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +136%
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
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
2
The San Francisco School

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.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
4
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
5
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
6
San Francisco Friends School

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…

Education
7
Association of California School Administrators

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.

—
8
San Francisco University High School

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.

Education
9
United States Naval Institute

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.

—
10
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
11
Dominican University of California

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.

Education
12
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Golden State Community Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

110 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. 110 of the 165 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
110/110
Grantees still filing
78/110
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $4,481,812 · OtherFOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENRight To Play USA: $231,100 · OtherMENLO SCHOOL: $205,000 · Other+91 more: $617,807 · Other+91 moreENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC: $2,000,000 · InternationalENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC+8 more: $68,918 · InternationalSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $145,000 · EducationCHANCE ACADEMY: $50,000 · EducationHILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $45,000 · EducationMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $30,000 · EducationTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $25,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANCER RESEARCH INC: $25,000 · EducationAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL: $20,598 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $20,000 · EducationBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $18,000 · EducationThurgood Marshall College Fund: $18,000 · Education+23 more: $67,810 · EducationOPPORTUNITY NETWORKS INC: $165,000 · PhilanthropyGOLDEN HEART FUND: $30,000 · Philanthropy+5 more: $12,824 · PhilanthropyUTAH BASKETBALL CLUB: $150,000 · Recreation & SportsGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Recreation & SportsMENLO ATHERTON POP WARNER INC: $9,000 · Recreation & SportsFOSTER CITY YOUTH SOFTBALL ASSN: $6,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $85,000 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 · HealthSAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $12,500 · Health+5 more: $6,120 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $70,000 · Human ServicesRising Star Outreach Inc: $15,000 · Human ServicesSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $12,000 · Human ServicesCamp Kesem National: $10,000 · Human Services+5 more: $3,779 · Human Services
Other$5,535,719International$2,068,918Education$464,408Philanthropy$207,824Recreation & Sports$176,000Health$118,620Human Services$110,779

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOREVER YOUNG FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN: $4,481,812 over 8y, 29% of budgetENGAGE NOW AFRICA INC: $2,000,000 over 8y, 18% of budgetMENLO SCHOOL: $205,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetOPPORTUNITY NETWORKS INC: $165,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetUTAH BASKETBALL CLUB: $150,000 over 8y, 61% of budgetSPONSORS FOR EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITY INC: $145,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHUNTSMAN CANCER FOUNDATION: $85,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FORTY NINERS FOUNDATION: $70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetHIM FOR HER INC: $65,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetYAPAY BOLIVIA FOUNDATION: $53,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetCHANCE ACADEMY: $50,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetHILLSBOROUGH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $32,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetLIAHONA MOTU FOUNDATION: $31,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMARIAN MIDDLE SCHOOL: $30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGOLDEN HEART FUND: $30,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetTHE NEW YORK OPPORTUNITY NETWORK INC DBA THE OPPORTUNITY NETWORK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANCER RESEARCH INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL: $20,598 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK GIRLS CODE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThurgood Marshall College Fund: $18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRising Star Outreach Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetLOYOLA ACADEMY OF ST LOUIS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $12,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSalesmanship Club Charitable Golf of Dallas Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDavis Education Foundation: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN STATE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHANKSGIVING POINT INSTITUTE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTONY FINAU FOUNDATION FKA FINAU YOUTH FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetSF Partnership: $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Kesem National: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $9,612 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPGA TOUR INC: $9,570 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOSTER CITY YOUTH SOFTBALL ASSN: $6,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetDual Immersion Academy: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIT KIDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Academy Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSeal Legacy Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSynergist: $5,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetAPOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHT FUTURE FOUNDATION FOR EAGLE COUNTY: $4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $3,910 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE KEHILLAH SCHOOL: $3,880 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRISE AGAINST HUNGER INC: $3,858 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Daffy Charitable FundGs Donor Advised Phil…Sorenson Legacy Found…Bny Mellon Charitable…The David and Lucile …The Goldman Sachs Cha…United Way WorldwideThe San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Pga Tour Inc
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA22.2× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Capital Impact Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Capital Impact Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
17report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Capital Impact Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Capital Impact Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 165 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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