California · Private foundation
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.
- $169k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $54,834
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 29
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Chip Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $113k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $14k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $25k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $16k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $22k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 29 | $29k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $62,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $16,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Theatreworks Silicon Valley | $16,050 | 2 | 0% |
| The Palo Alto Community Fund | $12,760 | 4 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc | $11,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Castilleja School Foundation | $10,750 | 3 | 0% |
| Junior League of Palo Alto - Mid Peninsula | $7,200 | 3 | 2% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $5,200 | 2 | 0% |
| Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health | $2,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chip Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
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
How this is measured
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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.
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.
About Chip Foundation
- How much does Chip Foundation give?
- Chip Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $168,716 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Chip Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Environment (23%), Arts & Culture (16%).
- Who are Chip Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Peninsula Open Space Trust ($62k), Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($17k), Theatreworks Silicon Valley ($16k).
- Does Chip Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chip Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Chip Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Where is Chip Foundation based?
- Chip Foundation is based in CA.
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