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Chavez Family 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.

$794k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Community Improvement$2.4MScience & Tech$1.3MArts & Culture$1.1MPublic Benefit$953kEducation$870kPhilanthropy$648kYouth Development$510kCivil Rights$488kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $264k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $525k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NEIGHBORS FOR A BETTER SAN FRANCISCO$100,000
IMMIGRANTS RISING$75,000
LA COCINA INC$75,000
DIGITAL NEST INC$75,000
CALIFORNIA CONSORTIUM FOR URBAN INDIAN HEALTH INC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$50,000
EVERY WOMAN TREATY$50,000
SOMOSVC$50,000
SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION$48,580
ASIAN PACIFIC FUND$30,000
HISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY$30,000
SOUNDS OF SAVING$25,000
EDTECHQUITY$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER$15,000
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION$15,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $670k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPECIAL SERVICE FOR GROUPS INC: $5k → 14%COMMONWEAL: $25k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $25k → 8%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $88k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $80k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%SUNDAY FRIENDS FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%MATRICULATE: $5k → 17%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $18k → 10%IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER: $100k → 10%IMMIGRANTS RISING: $75k → 10%MISSION NEIGHBORHOOD CENTERS: $15k → 10%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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

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Where the work is directed

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

About 11% of Chavez 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.

Chavez Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.2% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$7.0M · 38 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
39

Total granted

$7.0M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%
+2%

Still filing today

74%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $289k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

  • COMMUNITY INITIATIVES
    6× · 2018–2023 · $840k · revenue +136%
  • LC
    LA COCINA
    6× · 2019–2024 · $475k · revenue +2%
  • ST
    SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · $360k · revenue +94%

Funded once

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +47%
  • TM
    THE MARSH
    one grant, 2020 · $124k
  • CL
    Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue -10%

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
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
2
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
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
4
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
5
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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6
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
7
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
8
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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9
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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10
Immigration Institute of the Bay Area

The immigration institute of the bay area helps immigrants, refugees, and their families join and contribute to the community.

Arts & Culture
11
Silicon Valley Rising Action

Silicon Valley Rising Action takes on occupational segregation and income inequality with a comprehensive campaign to raise wages, create affordable housing, and build a tech economy that works for everyone.

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12
Advance Sf

Advance SF is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco through education, advocacy, and research. The…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Giving Trees International. 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 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%9%<5yr15%12%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr18%35%20–35yr12%10%35–55yr12%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%10%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%21%10–20yr18%28%20–35yr12%6%35–55yr12%25%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/76
the rest of the field
13%
15,004/112,498

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.

05the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 93 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/73
Grantees still filing
43/73
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

LATINO BUSINESS ACTION NETWORK (LBAN) — $400,000 · OtherLATINO BUSINESS ACTION NETWORK (LBAN)SAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION — $360,000 · OtherSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATIONPARTNERSHIP FOR A NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY RESEARCH FUND — $275,000 · OtherPARTNERSHIP FOR A NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY RESEARCH…AMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL — $262,500 · OtherAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCILUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO — $225,000 · OtherMOBILE PATHWAYS — $175,000 · OtherEVERYWOMAN EVERYWHERE — $165,000 · OtherACLU OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $150,000 · OtherKQED INC — $150,000 · OtherUPWARDLY GLOBAL — $280,500 · OtherUPWARDLY GLOBALNeighbors for a Better San Francisco — $301,000 · OtherNeighbors for a Better San Francisco+42 more — $1,692,730 · Other+42 morePresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,256,326 · EducationPresident and Fellows of…UNITE AND RENEW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $492,000 · EducationUNITE AND RENEW EDUCATIO…CODEPATHORG — $100,000 · EducationRESOURCE IMPACT — $100,000 · Education+10 more — $353,500 · Education+10 moreLA COCINA — $475,000 · Community ImprovementLA COCINAMISSION ASSET FUND — $308,000 · Community ImprovementMISSION ASSE…CRESER Capital Fund — $150,000 · Community ImprovementCRESER Capit…HISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $105,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FOU…SOMOSVC — $90,000 · Community ImprovementSOMOSVCCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $840,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY I…THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRA…ASIAN PACIFIC FUND — $60,000 · PhilanthropyASIAN PACIF…Silicon Valley Community Foundation — $50,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $52,500 · PhilanthropyLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $410,000 · Human ServicesIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $100,000 · Human ServicesImmigrants Rising — $75,000 · Human ServicesCOMMONWEAL — $50,000 · Human Services+5 more — $40,000 · Human ServicesDIGITAL NEST INC — $350,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentSAHQ BACKERS — $35,000 · Youth Development+1 more — $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentEVERY WOMAN TREATY INC — $350,000 · International
Other$4,436,730Education$2,301,826Community Improvement$1,128,000Philanthropy$1,102,500Human Services$675,000Youth Development$545,000International$350,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $1,256,326 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES — $840,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUNITE AND RENEW EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $492,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetLA COCINA — $475,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $410,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSAVE THE MUSIC FOUNDATION — $360,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetEVERY WOMAN TREATY INC — $350,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC — $350,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetMISSION ASSET FUND — $308,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNeighbors for a Better San Francisco — $301,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetUPWARDLY GLOBAL — $280,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR A NEW AMERICAN ECONOMY RESEARCH FUND — $275,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetAMERICAN IMMIGRATION COUNCIL — $262,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetKQED INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA — $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCRESER Capital Fund — $150,000 over 3y, 5.7% of budgetNEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND — $140,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco — $125,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetHISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $105,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCODEPATHORG — $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRESOURCE IMPACT — $100,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetSOMOSVC — $90,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetLATINOS FOR EDUCATION INC — $75,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Parent Coalition — $65,000 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetASIAN PACIFIC FUND — $60,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetLegal Link — $55,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budget10000 DEGREES — $53,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRO LEGAL DE LA RAZA — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALIFORNIA CONSORTIUM FOR URBAN INDIAN HEALTH — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSOUNDS OF SAVING — $50,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMPAIGN FOR COLLEGE OPPORTUNITY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMONWEAL — $50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION — $48,580 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSAHQ BACKERS — $35,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCITYSIDE JOURNALISM INITIATIVE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHINESE PROGRESSIVE ASSOCIATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIntersection for the Arts — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA SCHOOL OF MECHANICAL ARTS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYERBA BUENA CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAsian Law Caucus — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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…The San Francisco Fou…Tides FoundationLatino Community Foun…The Sobrato Family Fo…The David and Lucile …Jewish Community Fede…The James Irvine Foun…The California Wellne…Marin Community Found…East Bay Community Fo…Crankstart Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA38.7× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Crankstart 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 Chavez 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
25report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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.

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How do I get to Chavez Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chavez Family 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 93 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.

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