· Private foundation
David E De Silva Family Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Youth ALIVE | $20,000 |
| Palestine Children's Relief Fund | $10,000 |
| Camp Kesem National | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| 826 National | $7,000 |
| CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| SMUIN BALLET | $7,000 |
| Earthjustice | $7,000 |
| AXIS DANCE COMPANY | $7,000 |
| DEFENDERS OF WILDLIFE | $7,000 |
| SISTERS OF PERPETUAL INDULGENCE | $6,000 |
| NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL | $6,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those 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.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $48k 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
- YAYOUTH ALIVE2× · 2023–2024 · $32k · revenue +25%
- CKCamp Kesem National2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +4%
- 8V826 Valencia4× · 2019–2022 · $18k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- RFRain Forest Trust Foundationone grant, 2022 · $30k
- PHPROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVEone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +17%
- PEPACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +109%
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.
Dance Film SF DFSF brings dance to wider audiences through the presentation and development of dance-based films. We celebrate the best dance films from around the world, encourage and assist choreographers and filmmakers in the creation…
San Francisco Green Film Festival's (SFGFF) mission is to educate and connect communities through forward thinking programs of environmental films, dialogues, and action opportunities.
Forward Together is a national reproductive justice organization that centers people, families, and communities who experience reproductive oppression. They prioritize queer, trans, Black, Indigenous, and other peoples of color and utilize…
Shawl-Anderson Dance Center SADC builds and supports a vital and inclusive community for movers of all ages and styles. Founded in 1958, SADC provides dance education, institutional support for artists, a performance and rehearsal venue,…
Our mission at Californians for the Arts is to ensure that the arts are accessible to all Californians; are an ongoing part of the public dialogue and to encourage Californians to care about the arts as a critical component of their own…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
California Arts Advocates is a comprehensive lobbying organization for the arts, culture and creative industries and workforce.
Youth in Arts builds visual and performing arts skills through innovative and in-depth programs that foster confidence, compassion and resilience in students of all abilities. We develop capacity among educators and teaching artists,…
Transforming global storytelling by using data-driven research, education, and advocacy to mitigate bias, inspiring authentic portrayals in entertainment, advertising, and gaming that reflect the true diversity of the population.
Fossil Free California works to end financial support for climate-damaging fossil fuels and promotes the transition to a socially just and environmentally sustainable society.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dance Downtown La Inc La Dance Project and the most unlike its peers is Nikolas Ritschel Foundation. 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 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 33 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 YOUTH ALIVE ↗
- Who funds Camp Kesem National ↗
- Who funds 826 Valencia ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence Inc ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEAL HELP TO EAT ACCEPT & LIVE ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES CENTER ↗
- Who funds 826 National Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TRANSGENDER DISTRICT ↗
- Who funds DANCE DOWNTOWN LA INC LA DANCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Smuin Ballet ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AXIS Dance Company ↗
- Who funds Defenders of Wildlife ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Nikolas Ritschel Foundation ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ODC ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Art and Film Program ↗
- Who funds Freedom Fund Network Inc ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
- Who funds EVERYBODY DANCE LA ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Film Society ↗
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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund
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 David E De Silva Family 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.