· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE STANFORD FUND | $35,000 |
| VILLAGE ENTERPRISE | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,000 |
| THE FULLER FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MAYO CLINIC | $23,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 40% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
40 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. 40 of the 84 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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 · 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cnc Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cnc Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Old North Illuminated Inc: 94% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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