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Cnc 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k17 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $388k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $320k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.7M
Anchored by a single position — about 98% of reported assets are held in Costco Wholsesale Co.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KITP HOUSE PROJECT | $1,525,000 |
| Regents of the University of California | $640,000 |
| CALMATTERS | $500,000 |
| Californians to Defend the Open Primary | $150,000 |
| Adas Cafe | $60,000 |
| INTERVARSITY CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP | $59,800 |
| JOURNEY WITH JESUS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $45,700 |
| INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION | $45,000 |
| MENLO CHURCH | $42,000 |
| VILLAGE ENTERPRISE | $35,000 |
| THE STANFORD FUND | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,000 |
| THE FULLER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $23,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
52 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 24 since wound down; 7 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, 14% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.8M 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
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · $692k · revenue +167%- TJTHE JOURNEY WITH JESUS FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $455k · revenue +8% · 57% of their budget
- IJINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION9× · 2017–2025 · $429k · revenue +82%
Funded once
- EEELECTRON ELECTRIC DIPOLE MOMENTone grant, 2024 · $293k
- SBSMALL BUSINESS ACTION COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $200k
- LLLATINO LEADERSHIP & POLICY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $50k
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
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…
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
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.
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 san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uc Santa Barbara Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kitp House Project. 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 33 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 27% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 84 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 KITP HOUSE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CalMatters ↗
- Who funds THE JOURNEY WITH JESUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds InterVarsity Christian FellowshipUSA ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE ENTERPRISE FUND ↗
- Who funds HOPE HORIZON EAST PALO ALTO ↗
- Who funds Californians to Defend the Open Primary ↗
- Who funds FULLER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE FULLER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Ada's Cafe ↗
- Who funds THE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds LATINO LEADERSHIP & POLICY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The New Horizons Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Downtown Streets Inc ↗
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 · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Jacob L and Lillian Holtzmann Foundation · Embarcadero Media Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · 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 Cnc 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.
- Old North Illuminated Inc — 94% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% 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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