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Farallon 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.

$1.3M
Granted FY2025still arriving
157
Grants FY2025still arriving
21
States reached
$367k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$589kEnvironment$380kEducation$324kReligion$241kInternational$233kRecreation & Sports$146kHousing & Shelter$143kArts & Culture$130kOther$0
02FY2025 · 157 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k134 grants · $237k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $302k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $364k
  • $250k+1 grant · $367k
$1,500
Median grant
21
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Schwab Charitable Fund$367,013
Recovery Beyond$124,470
Seattle Childrens Hospital$101,000
Arboretum Foundation$86,000
MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL$52,700
All Stars Project$32,500
GRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK$25,000
DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION$25,000
KENYON COLLEGE$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
Acres of Diamonds$20,000
Northern Light School$20,000
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION$18,000
ELECTRONIC FRONTIER FOUNDATION$18,000
St Marks Church$13,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $348k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 18% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Aldea: $8k → 9%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $1k → 14%MY NEW RED SHOES: $5k → 7%Aldea: $5k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $20k → 9%Aldea: $1k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS: $10k → 9%Covenant House: $7k → 17%MY NEW RED SHOES: $1k → 7%Aldea: $400 → 9%Recovery Beyond: $124k → 9%CHALLENGED ATHLETES: $1k → 11%Recovery Beyond: $52k → 9%Peninsula Volunteers: $1k → 7%Red Cross: $6k → 14%Recovery Beyond: $28k → 9%Red Cross: $6k → 14%Mychals Learning Place: $5k → 14%Red Cross: $3k → 14%Recovery Beyond: $12k → 9%Mychals Learning Place: $1k → 14%Covenant House: $1k → 17%Red Cross: $1k → 14%Recovery Beyond: $5k → 9%Covenant House: $1k → 17%Red Cross: $1k → 14%Covenant House: $500 → 17%Red Cross: $500 → 14%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $10k → 17%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $3k → 17%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 10%LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $500 → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $3k → 17%HUDSON GUILD: $3k → 17%Covenant House: $500 → 17%First Place For Youth: $2k → 10%First Place For Youth: $2k → 10%First Place For Youth: $2k → 10%First Place For Youth: $2k → 10%First Place For Youth: $1k → 10%First Place For Youth: $1k → 10%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUND: $1k → 9%PROVIDENCE HOSPICE OF SEATTLE FOUND: $1k → 9%Issaquah Food Bank: $3k → 9%Issaquah Food Bank: $3k → 9%Issaquah Food Bank: $3k → 9%Issaquah Food Bank: $2k → 9%Issaquah Food Bank: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
AZ
TN
NC
DC
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.2M · 195 repeat orgs$324k to everyone else

195 repeat relationships: 128 still active in FY2025, 67 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

195
149

Total granted

$3.2M
$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+23%

Still filing today

54%
52%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesEducationAnimalsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SC
    SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $341k · revenue +78%
  • ARBORETUM FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $255k · revenue +389%
  • MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $240k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • PB
    Piedmont Beautif Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $31k
  • BA
    Bay Area Community Services Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +100%
  • MI
    MECHANICS' INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -1%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
3
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
One Earth Philanthropy

One Earth connects thinkers, doers, activists, and knowledge holders from around the world to solve humanity's greatest ecological challenges--together. Our belief is simple: The solutions to the climate crisis already exist. By connecting…

Environment
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
National Forest Foundation

The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…

Recreation & Sports
8
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International
9
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
10
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to promote sustainability in the Bay Area and beyond by engaging communities in avian science, habitat restoration, and education.

Environment
11
International Center for Research On Women

The international center for research for women (icrw) is a global research institute, with a mission to advance rights and opportunities for women, girls, and structurally excluded populations with actionable evidence and solutions.

International
12
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Emerald City Pet Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

209 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. 209 of the 381 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
35
Early backer (in before they grew)
205/209
Grantees still filing
144/209
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

St Marks Church: $111,750 · OtherSt Marks ChurchBoysGirls Clubs: $90,000 · OtherBoysGirls ClubsGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK: $70,000 · OtherSeason of Sharing Fd: $67,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $62,150 · Other+135 more: $1,247,525 · Other+135 moreSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $341,000 · HealthSEATTLE CHILDREN…SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 · HealthSUTTER BAY MEDIC…Acres of Diamonds: $75,750 · HealthAcres of Diamond…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,150 · Health+4 more: $21,357 · HealthDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $470,348 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED …KICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC: $17,500 · Philanthropy+3 more: $21,000 · PhilanthropyRECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $220,820 · Human ServicesRECOVERY …CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesCANINE CO…American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $17,200 · Human ServicesALDEA INC: $14,000 · Human ServicesLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $13,000 · Human Services+8 more: $50,225 · Human Services+8 moreARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $255,000 · EnvironmentARBORETUM…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $14,150 · EnvironmentTen Strands: $13,000 · EnvironmentCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $12,500 · Environment+8 more: $33,863 · Environment+8 moreMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $240,229 · InternationalAmazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East: $18,500 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 · International+5 more: $18,700 · InternationalNorthern Light School: $86,700 · EducationKENYON COLLEGE: $50,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $32,500 · EducationTeach for America Inc: $30,000 · EducationThe Junior Center of Art and Science: $11,100 · EducationUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $10,200 · EducationEmory University: $10,000 · EducationJubilee REACH: $9,000 · Education+6 more: $23,500 · Education
Other$1,648,925Health$563,257Philanthropy$508,848Human Services$345,245Environment$328,513International$292,929Education$263,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $470,348 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL: $341,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARBORETUM FOUNDATION: $255,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetMEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL: $240,229 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM: $220,820 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNorthern Light School: $86,700 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetAcres of Diamonds: $75,750 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION: $51,163 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKENYON COLLEGE: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $45,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC: $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION: $35,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $25,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFARM FORWARD INC: $22,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetBay Area Community Services Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East: $18,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetElectronic Frontier Foundation Inc: $18,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKICKSTART INTERNATIONAL INC: $17,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $17,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWOODLAND PARK ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY: $15,376 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $14,150 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALDEA INC: $14,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTen Strands: $13,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF SAN DIEGO: $12,601 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCLEAN AIR TASK FORCE INC: $12,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSNOQUALMIE VALLEY PRESERVATION ALLIANCE: $12,300 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetThe Junior Center of Art and Science: $11,100 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $10,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetISSAQUAH FOOD AND CLOTHING BANK: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE: $10,300 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $10,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMECHANICS' INSTITUTE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEmory University: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHarper For Kids Inc: $10,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL DISASTER SEARCH DOG FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJubilee REACH: $9,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST PLACE FOR YOUTH: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION: $9,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $8,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
  • Who funds SEATTLE CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds ARBORETUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MEDICAL TEAMS INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds RECOVERY BEYOND PARADIGM ↗
  • Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Northern Light School ↗
  • Who funds Acres of Diamonds ↗
  • Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON TRAILS ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FARM FORWARD INC ↗
  • Who funds Bay Area Community Services Inc ↗
  • Who funds Amazima Ministries International Education and Empowerment for East ↗

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.

Seattle FoundationMarin Community Found…The San Francisco Fou…The James Irvine Foun…Gordon E and Betty I …The Norcliffe Foundat…Jewish Community Fede…McKinstry Charitable …Puget Sound Energy Fo…East Bay Community Fo…McNabb FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…
Seattle FoundationWA28.5× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seattle Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Farallon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Farallon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • WaterWatch of Oregon: 61% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Medical Teams International: 14% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
50report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 381 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home