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Danvera 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $239k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO | $110,000 |
| PLAYWORKS | $77,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OAKLAND | $51,000 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| ST PATRICK'S SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| ST MARY'S COLLEGE HIGH SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ST AUGUSTINE HIGH SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FIRST TEE OF OAKLAND | $5,206 |
| LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN | $5,163 |
| CHILDREN'S FAIRYLAND | $5,000 |
| ST TERESA CHURCH | $2,563 |
| URBAN LEAGUE | $2,500 |
| ALAMEDA COUNTY FOOD BANK | $1,280 |
| ST VINCENT DAY HOME | $1,113 |
| 100 HOLE HIKE FOR YOUTH ON COURSE | $1,053 |
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 (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 5 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; $10k 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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO6× · 2020–2025 · $530k · revenue +42%
- LSLEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $41k · revenue +79%
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK6× · 2020–2025 · $10k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $1k
- RORESTORE OAKLAND INCone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue 0%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +27%
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 organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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,…
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.
To distribute public affairs and other educational information in order to create an electronic bridge between californians and their public officials, and, in the process educate a new generation of voting citizens and civic leaders who…
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
As california state parks' statutory non-profit partner, we have a clear mission - to help strengthen parks and inspire all people to experience these extraordinary places.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The oakland public education fund leads the development and investment of community resources in oakland public schools so that all students can learn, grow, and thrive.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
To eliminate disparities in health care access and outcomes by providing superior quality health and human services through an integrated world-class delivery system for latino, multi-ethnic underserved communities in southern california.
The sacramento zoo inspires appreciation, respect and a connection with wildlife and nature through education, recreation and conservation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Medical Mission Board Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rebuilding Together East Bay Network. 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 57 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 42 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 UNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds LEGAL SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION SOCIETY OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation ↗
- Who funds East Bay Agency for Children ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF OAKLAND ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC MEDICAL MISSION BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds Rebuilding Together East Bay Network ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENTS DAY HOME ↗
- Who funds HOPALONG ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds RESTORE OAKLAND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MIRACLE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL PARKS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Impactassetsinc · The Barrios Trust · Nia Community Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The California Endowment · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · 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 Danvera 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.
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.