How much did DANFORD FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of DANFORD FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

patientslung cancerpurchase foodnotre dameseniorpooryouths

2020

purchase fooddrama youthsyouths participategoingseniornotre damepoor

2021

poorseniorsubsidize foodnotre damepeninsulausinggirl scout

2022

reefexperiencespeninsulagirl scoutneededaffordablebereavement

2023

homeless povertystrenghthenlivewildlifefragilemarineenvironmental

2024

discriminationfragilehealth wellnessfood rescuerescue animalsfocusedrain

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k30 grants · $115k
$10k–50k20 grants · $337k
$50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$250k+1 grant · $525k

$6,000

Median grant

States reached

$20M

Total assets

Largest grants

HANNIG ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ORGAN$525,000
SAINT JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL$100,000
PENINSULA YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION$40,000
FLOATING DOCTORS$32,500
SEQUIOIA AWARDS$30,000
SHERIFF'S ACTIVITY LEAGUE$24,000
DOGCAMP BOQUETE FOUNDATION$20,000
SHANTI$20,000
KIDS OURDOOR SPORTS CAMP$20,000
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND$15,000
SEQUOIA HOSPITAL KENNETT NURSING SC$15,000
ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER$14,115
HEALTHY CITIES TUTORING$12,500
SEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$12,000
HANNIG ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ORGAN$12,000

02The need

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 (FY18–24, $393k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8% — the area typically sits at 10%. 5% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of DANFORD FOUNDATION’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 77% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

DANFORD FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 12% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.8M · 147 repeat orgs$593k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

147 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 107 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

147

Total granted

$5.8M

$545k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%

+19%

Still filing today

22%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesHealthEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentReligionOther

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

FD
Floating Doctors
7× · 2018–2024 · $383k · revenue +130%
Guide Dogs for the Blind
7× · 2018–2024 · $300k · revenue +44%
SA
Sequoia Awards
4× · 2018–2021 · $120k · revenue +9%

Funded once

SH
Sequoia HospKennet Nursing Scholars
one grant, 2021 · $35k
CI
California Inclusive Saliling
one grant, 2021 · $30k
SF
Sant Francis Center
one grant, 2021 · $25k

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.

Volunteers in Medicine - San Francisco

Clinic by the bay provides free healthcare to the working uninsured in san francisco and san mateo counties. the clinic provides a caring medical home to patients through a holistic philosophy centered on compassion, wellness and dignity.

Health

Marin Humane Society

Improving the lives of animals and people through advocacy, education, and support.

Animals

Hearing and Speech Center of Northern California

To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.

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California Coastkeeper

California Coastkeeper Alliance coordinates, supports & enhances the work of the local California Waterkeeper programs to provide a statewide voice for safeguarding California's waters, and its world renowned coast & ocean, for the benefit…

Environment

Seamless Bay Area

Seamless Bay Area advocates to transform the Bay Areas fragmented and inconvenient public transit into a world-class, unified, equitable, and widely-used system. [continued on next page]

Public Benefit

Children's Council of San Francisco

Since 1974, Children's Council has been at the heart of early care and education in San Francisco.

Human Services

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.

Education

Cancer Support Community South Bay

To uplift and strengthen people impacted by cancer by providing support, fostering compassionate communities, and breaking down barriers to care.

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San Francisco Film Society

San Francisco Film Society (SFFILM) is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and…

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Svhome

Driving the creation of affordable housing for a more vibrant and equitable silicon valley.

Housing & Shelter

Marin Brain Injury Network

Provide continued rehabilitation, hope, and community for people affected by brain injury.

—

Santa Cruz Community Health Centers

To improve the health of our patients and the community and to advocate the feminist goals of social, political and economic equality.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Glide Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Maitri Compassionate Care. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 13. 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 10% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/65

the rest of the field

12%

11,928/98,025

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.

06the grantee network

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

52/55

Grantees still filing

37/55

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,877,970Health$661,115Human Services$415,500Recreation & Sports$224,112Education$102,000Civil Rights$37,500Arts & Culture$32,000

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.

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.

Atkinson FoundationCA32.6× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atkinson Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Community Foundation of San Carlos · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Peter Uccelli Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Bothin Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bohannon Foundation · The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert

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 organisation DANFORD 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Sequoia Awards.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~9 months of operating runway; revenue held over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 943148844 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on Sequoia Awards, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 9 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue held over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Danford Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Danford Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

DANFORD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Danford Foundation?

More from the funding graph

DANFORD FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

55 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Danford Foundation?

More from the funding graph