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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.

$169k
Granted FY2025still arriving
13
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$55k
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, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$69kEnvironment$64kArts & Culture$45kEducation$35kHealth$21kFood & Nutrition$17kHuman Services$10kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $24k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $90k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
$6,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE$10,000
PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND$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
ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH LAPPANS$1,000
LUCILE PACKARD FDN FOR CHILDREN'S$1,000
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $250 → 8%FAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $100 → 8%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

NY
MA
PA
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$201k · 27 repeat orgs$16k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +43% since the first grant, against +32% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
18

Total granted

$201k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+32%

Still filing today

74%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthEnvironmentArts & CulturePhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • PO
    PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST
    6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +100%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    4× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +45%
  • TS
    THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY
    2× · 2020–2021 · $16k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
  • TT
    The Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +32%
  • J
    JLPAMP
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
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
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

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.

Education
2
University of Southern California

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…

Education
3
Sutter Bay Hospitals

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,…

Health
4
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
5
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
6
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
7
Pacific University

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.

Education
8
University of the Pacific

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.

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
10
Boston Architectural College

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

—
11
Palo Alto University Inc

Advancing human understanding through education, research, and practice in behavioral science

Education
12
Southern California University of Health Sciences

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,…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Santa Cruz County; 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.
04the grantee network

32 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. 32 of the 49 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
26/32
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $56,116 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA C…THE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND: $12,760 · PhilanthropyTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND+1 more: $100 · PhilanthropyTHEATREWORKS OF SILICON VALLEY: $25,000 · OtherTHEATREWORKS OF SILICON VALLEYSTANFORD UNIVERSITY- MR: $16,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY- MRVISTA CENTER: $9,000 · OtherVISTA CENTERSTANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL: $5,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHO…JUNIOR LEAGUE OF PALO ALTO - MID PENINSULA: $7,200 · OtherJUNIOR LEAGUE OF PALO ALTO - MID…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,200 · OtherMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC+25 more: $13,550 · Other+25 morePENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $62,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUS…+1 more: $600 · EnvironmentTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY: $16,050 · Arts & CultureThe Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc: $2,000 · Arts & CultureCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,750 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,500 · Education+4 more: $1,400 · EducationSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $16,500 · Food & NutritionPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $11,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $2,000 · HealthBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS: $500 · Health+1 more: $400 · Health
Philanthropy$68,976Other$80,950Environment$62,600Arts & Culture$18,050Education$17,650Food & Nutrition$16,500Health$13,900

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 budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $62,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY: $16,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND: $12,760 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $10,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR LEAGUE OF PALO ALTO - MID PENINSULA: $7,200 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Theatre of the Emerging American Moment Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBridge the Gap College Prep: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMORGAN AUTISM CENTER: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInfact DBA Corporate Accountability: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWilliams College: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY SUPPORTIVE HOUSING INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOMONA COLLEGE: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY FUND: $250 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMERCADO GLOBAL INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIOR ADULTS LEGAL ASSISTANCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID GORDON LOUIS DANIEL FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula: $100 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…The David and Lucile …The Priscilla Endicot…Marin Community Found…Floyd Family Foundati…The George and Judy M…Los Altos Mountain Vi…The Sobrato Family Fo…Gordon E and Betty I …Gs Donor Advised Phil…Morgan Stanley Global…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA22.5× affinity11 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 · 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
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 Chip Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chip Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Williams College: 0% of income from government
  • Infact Dba Corporate Accountability: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 Chip Foundation?

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.

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 49 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home