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Chip Conley Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
51
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$308k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Housing & Shelter$1.6MArts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$1.2MCivil Rights$1.2MEnvironment$588kInternational$523kEducation$420kSocial Science$347kOther$0
02FY2025 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $73k
  • $10k–50k20 grants · $302k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $577k
  • $250k+1 grant · $308k
$10,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Airbnborg$308,078
Glide Foundation$206,944
Association for Growth & Education$95,000
1440 Foundation$75,000
New Israel Fund$50,000
Abigail Adams Institute$50,000
Burning Man Project$50,000
Do It For The Love$50,000
Tinogona Foundation$25,000
On Being Project$25,000
Mindpeace Miracles$25,000
Give Us The Floor$25,000
international Community Foundation - Bomberos Fund$20,000
Flourishing Systems Foundation$20,000
Fractured Atlas$19,939
02The need
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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 (FY17–25, $1.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%My Glacier Village MO: $837 → 11%Forum Health Fund: $5k → 8%COMMONWEAL: $2k → 8%PADRINO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%COMMONWEAL: $1k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAM: $1k → 10%Many Mothers: $11k → 12%PADRINO CHILDRENS FOUNDATION: $8k → 11%American Society of Aging: $25k → 10%PADRINO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION: $4k → 11%Many Mothers: $11k → 12%Padrino Children's Foundation: $4k → 11%Many Mothers: $10k → 12%Association for Growth & Education: $260k → 10%Association for Growth & Education: $200k → 10%Association for Growth & Education: $145k → 10%Association for Growth & Education: $108k → 10%Association for Growth & Education: $95k → 10%Association for Growth & Education: $95k → 10%Give Us The Floor: $25k → 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 6% of Chip Conley 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. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 81% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Chip Conley Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.0% 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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$6.1M · 50 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

50 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
58

Total granted

$6.1M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+24%

Still filing today

62%
53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $343k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyEnvironmentHealthOther

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

  • GF
    GLIDE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +51%
  • AF
    ASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $903k · revenue +426% · 87% of their budget
  • IT
    ILLUMINATE THE ARTS
    7× · 2017–2023 · $390k · revenue +238%

Funded once

  • EI
    ESALEN INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $292k · revenue +144%
  • O
    ONEGENERATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $156k · revenue +63%
  • SJ
    ST JOHNS COLLEGE IN SANTA FE
    one grant, 2022 · $150k

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.

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The Conversationalist
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2
We Are Family Foundation

The we are family foundation celebrates the vision of a global family by creating and supporting programs that inspire and educate people about mutual respect, understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity.

Civil Rights
3
The Poptech Institute

Poptech's mission is to accelerate the positive impact of world-changing people, projects and ideas. founded in 1996 by bob metcalfe (inventor, ethernet) and john sculley (apple, pepsi), poptech originally provided a forum to critically…

Education
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Institute for New Global Politics Inc

The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…

International
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Gold House Foundation Inc

Gold house is the leading cultural ecosystem that unites, invests in, and champions asian pacific leaders to power tomorrow for all. as a non-profit collective of diverse leaders, we forge meaningful relationships and build programs to…

Human Services
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National Geographic Society

To increase and diffuse geographic knowledge in the broadest sense, using the power of science, exploration, education and storytelling to illuminate and protect the wonder of the world.

Education
7
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
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Artpace Inc (Audit)

Artpace san antonio is a nonprofit residency program which supports texas, national, and international artists in the creation of new art. see schedule o for continuation.

Arts & Culture
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
10
Nia Tero Foundation

Nia tero works alongside indigenous peoples to secure their guardianship of vital ecosystems. indigenous peoples are guardians of earth.(see schedule o)

Environment
11
The Full Frame Initiative Inc

Moving the united states towards a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing.

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New Media Ventures

We believe that by changing where capital is invested, we can shift the structures of power to benefit more people.

Public Benefit

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Burning Man Project and the most unlike its peers is The 1440 Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Pregnancy Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Animal Rescue and ShelterWomen & Girls Leadership De…School Parent OrganizationsSenior Support ServicesDomestic Violence ServicesCancer Support ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%18%5–10yr20%35%10–20yr17%19%20–35yr11%13%35–55yr13%12%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%39%5–10yr20%33%10–20yr17%15%20–35yr11%6%35–55yr13%7%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% 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 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/97
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,881

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

88 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. 88 of the 144 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
87/88
Grantees still filing
54/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $264,464 · OtherIndividual grant recipientEL PESCADERO STUPA FUND — $199,914 · OtherEL PESCADERO STUPA FUNDONEGENERATION — $156,416 · OtherONEGENERATIONST JOHNS COLLEGE IN SANTA FE — $150,000 · OtherIDA — $113,397 · OtherGROUNDSWELL INC — $150,000 · OtherFLYING ELEPHANTS FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherProject Regeneration — $100,000 · OtherESALEN INSTITUTE — $291,867 · OtherESALEN INSTITUTEYOUTH SPEAKS INC — $142,747 · OtherBURNING MAN PROJECT — $100,000 · Other+87 more — $1,065,471 · Other+87 moreAIRBNBORG INC — $1,523,701 · Public Safety & DisasterAIRBNBORG INCGLIDE FOUNDATION — $1,167,932 · ReligionGLIDE FOUNDATION+1 more — $10,000 · ReligionASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION — $903,033 · Human ServicesASSOCIATION F…+8 more — $113,336 · Human Services+8 moreILLUMINATE THE ARTS — $389,953 · Arts & CultureILLUMINATE …DO IT FOR THE LOVE — $170,000 · Arts & CultureDO IT FOR T…Frameline Inc — $118,396 · Arts & CultureFrameline I…CENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more — $98,862 · Arts & Culture+9 moreINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $361,085 · PhilanthropyTHE 1440 FOUNDATION — $180,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $40,410 · PhilanthropyREAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS — $109,372 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $94,784 · EducationThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc — $50,000 · EducationFriends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library — $25,893 · EducationMINDPEACE MIRACLES INC — $25,000 · Education+9 more — $68,144 · Education
Other$2,834,276Public Safety & Disaster$1,523,701Religion$1,177,932Human Services$1,016,369Arts & Culture$807,211Philanthropy$581,495Education$373,193

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 budgetAIRBNBORG INC — $1,523,701 over 5y, 2.3% of budgetGLIDE FOUNDATION — $1,167,932 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR GROWTH AND EDUCATION — $903,033 over 6y, 87% of budgetILLUMINATE THE ARTS — $389,953 over 7y, 16% of budgetINTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $361,085 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetESALEN INSTITUTE — $291,867 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetTHE 1440 FOUNDATION — $180,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetDO IT FOR THE LOVE — $170,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetONEGENERATION — $156,416 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGROUNDSWELL INC — $150,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetYOUTH SPEAKS INC — $142,747 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetFrameline Inc — $118,396 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetREAL OPTIONS FOR CITY KIDS — $109,372 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetBURNING MAN PROJECT — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFLYING ELEPHANTS FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 33% of budgetProject Regeneration — $100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $94,784 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetA NETWORK FOR GRATEFUL LIVING INC — $50,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetThe Abigail Adams Institute Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRANCHO COMPASION — $45,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetNM-NEW INC — $45,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetTENDERLOIN NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $45,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons Foundation — $35,574 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMany Mothers Inc — $31,446 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCENTER FOR ACTION AND CONTEMPLATION — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSharieff Foundation Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFriends and Foundation of the San Francisco Public Library — $25,893 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY ON AGING — $25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTinogona Foundation — $25,000 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetON BEING PROJECT — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHEALTHRIGHT 360 — $22,682 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPADRINO CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC — $22,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetKISS THE GROUND — $21,194 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUPTOWN TENDERLOIN INC — $21,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetSTARTOUT — $20,746 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetDAVID LYNCH FOUNDATION FOR CONSCIOUSNESS -BASED EDUCATION AND WORLD PEACE — $17,660 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC — $15,926 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUNDS TRUE FOUNDATION — $15,609 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBay Area Disc Association — $14,650 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetSANTA CRUZ MONTESSORI SCHOOL — $11,004 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNEW MEXICO SCHOOL FOR THE ARTS - ARTS INSTITUTE — $10,985 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC — $10,423 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetScience and Nonduality — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCivic Space Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEMPOWER NEW MEXICO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetBAY ULTIMATE YOUTH AFFILIATE — $10,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetHouston Parks Board — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOCCIDENTAL COLLEGE — $5,155 over 3y, 0.0% 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…Jewish Community Fede…McNabb FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…East Bay Community Fo…Santa Fe Community Fo…Metta FundMimi and Peter Haas F…Koret FoundationCrankstart FoundationHorizons Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA23.5× affinity23 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 · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · McNabb Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Metta Fund · Mimi and Peter Haas Fund · Koret Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Horizons 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 Chip Conley 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.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.

    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Chip Conley Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Chip Conley 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 144 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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