· Private foundation
Danford Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k14 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $276k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $119k
- $250k+2 grants · $973k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FLOATING DOCTORS | $515,000 |
| HANNIG ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ORGAN | $457,500 |
| SAINT JUDE'S CHILDREN HOSPITAL | $118,500 |
| DOGCAMP BOQUETE FOUNDATION | $41,200 |
| SEQUIOIA AWARDS | $30,000 |
| SEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SEQUOIA HOSPITAL KENNETT NURSING SC | $25,000 |
| SHERIFF'S ACTIVITY LEAGUE | $22,000 |
| HANNIG CUP | $20,000 |
| ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER | $15,000 |
| KAINOS HOME TRAINING CENTER | $12,500 |
| DREAM VOLUNTEERS | $10,000 |
| MARINERS SCOUT SHIP TRADEWIND | $10,000 |
| HEARING LOSS ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| THE BRAIN AND ANEURYSM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $514k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Danford Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 76%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.
152 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 126 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HEHANNIG ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION HERO3× · 2023–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +156% · 100% of their budget
- FDFLOATING DOCTORS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $940k · revenue +130%
- SHSEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $375k · revenue +322%
Funded once
- SHSequoia HospKennet Nursing Scholarsone grant, 2021 · $35k
- SFSant Francis Centerone grant, 2021 · $25k
- PIParkside Intermidiate Schoolone grant, 2017 · $23k
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.
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,…
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,…
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,…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
To support and assist caregivers of adults with chronic diseases and conditions through education, services, research and advocacy.
To provide life long professional services to support all people with hearing or communication challenges in achieving their goals.
To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
How this is measured
93 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 93 of the 263 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 HANNIG ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH ORGANIZATION HERO ↗
- Who funds FLOATING DOCTORS INC ↗
- Who funds SEQUOIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CITY SEQUOIA AWARDS INC ↗
- Who funds California Inclusive Sailing ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHANTI PROJECT ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA YOUTH SAILING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOSTER CITY VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds DogCamp Boquete Foundation ↗
- Who funds Marine Science Institute ↗
- Who funds DREAM VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds COPD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS OUTDOOR SPORTS CAMP ↗
- Who funds INGRID B LACY MIDDLE SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER ↗
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: Atkinson Foundation · Peter Uccelli Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Bothin Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Bohannon Foundation · Community Foundation of San Carlos · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Danford Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Danford Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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