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Chizen 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.

$385k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Arts & Culture$1.9MFood & Nutrition$608kRecreation & Sports$566kHealth$380kEducation$303kPhilanthropy$56kPublic Safety & Disaster$35kInternational$29kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k13 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $85k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $275k
$5,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CMTA$100,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK$100,000
CAMP TAWONGA$75,000
KQED$25,000
SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$25,000
CHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM$25,000
LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$10,000
CYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION$5,000
RESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING$5,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$5,000
LINCOLN CENTER THEATER$2,500
I AM ALS$2,500
FRESH AIR FUND$1,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERANCY$1,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$1,000
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 (FY17–24, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%BOSTON ATHLETIC ACADEMY: $110 → 16%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $100 → 6%Children With Hair Loss: $115 → 10%American Red Cross: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%Presidio YMCA: $800 → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $500 → 10%YMCA of San Francisco: $500 → 10%ABILITIES UNITED: $1k → 8%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

WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
PA
NJ
RI
CA
MO
VA
MD
TN
DC
HI
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.6M · 45 repeat orgs$289k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

45 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

45
94

Total granted

$3.6M
$283k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+6%

Still filing today

76%
62%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther

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

  • TJ
    TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $529k · revenue +64%
  • CA
    CHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2017–2020 · $200k · revenue +119%
  • SV
    SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $175k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +45%
  • GP
    Genesis Project Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · $15k
  • A
    ALEARN
    one grant, 2017 · $15k

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
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
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
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
5
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center

Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.

Health
6
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
7
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
8
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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9
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
10
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
11
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
12
United States Telecom Association

See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is North Valley Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Stuttering Foundation of America. 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 37 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%1%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%14%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%27%35–55yr13%26%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%8%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%18%35–55yr13%48%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1.0%1/103
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,875

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.

04the grantee network

101 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. 101 of the 146 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/101
Grantees still filing
65/101
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CMTA — $545,000 · OtherCMTASECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK — $500,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANKCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $200,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S DISCOVERY MUSEUM+92 more — $302,794 · Other+92 moreKQED INC — $975,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCSILICON VALLEY CREATES — $75,000 · Arts & CultureSILICON VALLEY CREATES+13 more — $52,415 · Arts & CultureTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $528,650 · ReligionTAWONGA JEWISH …+1 more — $500 · ReligionCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION — $200,000 · HealthCHARCOT-MA…That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation — $140,000 · HealthThat Man M…+15 more — $24,550 · Health+15 moreSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $175,000 · Community ImprovementSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $100,000 · Food & NutritionFeeding America — $5,000 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $1,000 · Food & NutritionKHAN ACADEMY INC — $30,000 · EducationRESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING — $30,000 · EducationTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $5,250 · EducationROOM TO READ — $5,000 · EducationUniversity of San Francisco — $5,000 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $5,000 · Education+6 more — $4,220 · Education
Other$1,547,794Arts & Culture$1,102,415Religion$529,150Health$364,550Community Improvement$175,000Food & Nutrition$106,000Education$94,470

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKQED INC — $975,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION — $528,650 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetCHARCOT-MARIE-TOOTH ASSOCIATION — $200,000 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation — $140,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSILICON VALLEY CREATES — $75,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $40,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $33,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCE AREA FOR TEACHING — $30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $26,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALEARN — $15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER — $12,238 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION — $8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESURGE INTERNATIONAL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFeeding America — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI AM ALS — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDIGNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO READ — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $3,023 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $2,525 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDIGITAL NEST INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM — $2,048 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIGHTER CHILDREN INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $1,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMANHATTAN THEATRE CLUB INC — $1,260 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $1,249 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE LOS ALTOS HISTORICAL MUSEUM AKA LOS ALTOS HISTORY MUSEUM — $1,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Panetta Institute for Public Policy — $1,000 over 1y, 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 David and Lucile …The William & Flora H…Los Altos Mountain Vi…The Applied Materials…Jewish Community Fede…The Sobrato Family Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Koret FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Leo M Shortino Family…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA30.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Koret Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family 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 Chizen 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 · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 11%
  • Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
  • City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Jackson Health Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
22report 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.

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 146 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.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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