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Chip 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $24k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COU | $54,834 |
| PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST | $44,000 |
| THEATREWORKS OF SILICON VALLEY | $15,500 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $10,000 |
| PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE | $10,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY- MR | $6,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,100 |
| VISTA CENTER | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PALO ALTO MP | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COU | $1,282 |
| LUCILE PACKARD FDN FOR CHILDREN'S | $1,000 |
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH LAPPANS | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–22, $350) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- POPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +100%
- SHSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY4× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +45%
- TSTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- SUSTANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TTThe Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Incgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +32%
- JJLPAMPone grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
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,…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
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 mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Advancing human understanding through education, research, and practice in behavioral science
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Santa Cruz County and the most unlike its peers is David Gordon Louis Daniel 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.
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 44 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 49 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 PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PALO ALTO - MID PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- Who funds The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc ↗
- Who funds FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Bridge the Gap College Prep ↗
- Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MORGAN AUTISM CENTER ↗
- Who funds Infact DBA Corporate Accountability ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds GILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC ↗
- Who funds POMONA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE OPPORTUNITY FUND ↗
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 · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Priscilla Endicott Charitable Foundation #95-228210 · Marin Community Foundation · Floyd Family Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 Chip 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.
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Infact Dba Corporate Accountability — 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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Find your warmest path to Chip Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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