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Fenwick Community Fund

The FENWICK COMMUNITY FUND is a public benefit community foundation created on september 1, 2021 for the broad-based public benefit that promotes collective giving to organizations advancing important societal issues such as access to justice, racial and economic equity, food security, disaster relief, and slowing climate change.

$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
53
Grants FY2024still arriving
17
States reached
$184k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.

Education$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.1MCrime & Legal$778kPhilanthropy$467kHealth$412kEnvironment$348kCivil Rights$321kAnimals$310kOther$0
02FY2024 · 53 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 53 grants below total $1,503,237 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,626,445 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $123,208 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k30 grants · $542k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $883k
$15,560
Median grant
17
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REGENTS UNIV OF MICHIGAN$184,000
LAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FDN$102,790
THE FOUNDATION FOR MORRISTOWN$101,223
Friends of the Children$82,431
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$78,235
WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES$60,000
NATIONAL AQUARIUM$60,000
ST HUBERTS ANIMAL WELFARE$59,333
Neighbors Together$54,000
WOODSTOCK COMM FOOD SHELF$51,000
AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION$50,000
DOWNTOWN STREETS TEAM$42,020
Big Brothers & Sisters of MT$41,490
Trustees of Princeton Univ$30,600
Sea Shepherd Conserv Society$28,800
02The need
03

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 (FY22–24, $297k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 46% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%Pajama Program: $8k → 17%Neighbors Together: $54k → 15%WOODSTOCK COMM FOOD SHELF: $51k → 9%Neighbors Together: $23k → 15%Neighbors Together: $8k → 15%GIDEONS PROMISE: $10k → 13%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $60k → 9%Neighbors Together: $5k → 15%WELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES: $12k → 9%Ryther: $20k → 9%Ryther: $6k → 9%Start Small Think Big Inc: $12k → 8%Remake AWAJ Direct Relief: $18k → 10%Up On Top: $13k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
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 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

ME
VT
WA
MT
IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
NE
VA
MD
KS
DC
HI
AL
GA
TX
FL

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.

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$4.1M · 54 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

54 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
50

Total granted

$4.1M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+13%

Still filing today

93%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $678k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalAnimalsFood & NutritionCivil RightsOther

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

  • EJ
    EQUAL JUSTICE WORKS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $347k · revenue +3%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    3× · 2022–2024 · $131k · revenue +56%
  • FL
    FOOD LIFELINE
    3× · 2022–2024 · $128k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SC
    Sanford C Bernstein & Co
    one grant, 2022 · $151k
  • LF
    Lampron-York Family Fund
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • IC
    Intercollegiate Center For Classical Studiesgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue +150%

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.

1
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
2
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
5
The Bar Association of San Francisco

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…

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6
San Francisco Friends School

At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…

Education
7
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.

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8
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
9
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
10
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
11
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education
12
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

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is The Goldstein Family Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsSchool District FoundationsCommunity College Foundatio…Community Food PantriesPolicy Research and AdvocacyAffordable Housing Developm…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Youth Development ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Women & Girls Leadership De…Local Food System Organizat…Community Arts CentersAffordable Housing Construc…Animal Rescue and ShelterCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesYmca Youth DevelopmentOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsPregnancy Support ServicesFood Banks and Pantries
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 36 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%28%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%27%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%11%10–20yr16%26%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%24%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/141
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,424

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.

04the grantee network

130 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. 130 of the 142 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/130
Grantees still filing
80/130
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN — $194,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANSanford C Bernstein & Co — $150,625 · OtherLampron-York Family Fund — $150,000 · OtherENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $130,800 · OtherEARTHJUSTICE — $103,490 · OtherMAGICAL BRIDGE FOUNDATION — $105,475 · Other+66 more — $2,015,186 · Other+66 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $126,166 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEE…PRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $111,790 · EducationPRESERVE COMMUNITY F…LAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $102,790 · EducationLAS LOMITAS EDUCATIO…THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $100,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLU…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $85,235 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFO…DALTON SCHOOLS INC — $60,000 · EducationIntercollegiate Center For Classical Studies — $60,000 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University — $58,800 · EducationTrustees of Tufts College — $50,000 · EducationPIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $49,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $45,590 · Education+21 more — $370,500 · Education+21 moreSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $744,163 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST O…FOOD LIFELINE — $128,182 · Food & NutritionFOOD LIFELINEINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $35,000 · Food & Nutrition+4 more — $62,109 · Food & Nutrition+4 moreEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $347,000 · Crime & LegalEQUAL JUS…Law Foundation of Silicon Valley — $100,200 · Crime & LegalLaw Found…EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $29,000 · Crime & LegalLEGAL FOUNDATION OF WASHINGTON — $25,000 · Crime & LegalOPEN DOOR LEGAL — $22,500 · Crime & Legal+3 more — $22,000 · Crime & LegalJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $133,000 · PhilanthropyMONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $51,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GOLDSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $48,750 · PhilanthropySolidaire Network Inc — $30,000 · PhilanthropyDaffy Charitable Fund — $28,800 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST — $24,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC — $21,960 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION — $18,200 · Philanthropy+2 more — $22,000 · PhilanthropyPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $129,580 · HealthFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $101,223 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $70,000 · HealthAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $20,000 · HealthEDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES — $12,160 · HealthMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER — $11,975 · HealthTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $186,768 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $50,480 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $43,145 · Civil RightsTREVOR PROJECT INC — $17,800 · Civil Rights+3 more — $24,750 · Civil Rights
Other$2,849,576Education$1,219,871Food & Nutrition$969,454Crime & Legal$545,700Philanthropy$377,710Health$344,938Civil Rights$322,943

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $744,163 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE WORKS — $347,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $186,768 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $133,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $130,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $129,580 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD LIFELINE — $128,182 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $126,166 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRESERVE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $111,790 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetMAGICAL BRIDGE FOUNDATION — $105,475 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetEARTHJUSTICE — $103,490 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAS LOMITAS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $102,790 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetFoundation for Morristown Medical Center — $101,223 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLaw Foundation of Silicon Valley — $100,200 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS TOGETHER — $89,160 over 3y, 86% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN — $88,431 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFathering Together — $86,550 over 2y, 74% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $85,235 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC — $84,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSPRING FAMILY SERVICES — $71,560 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetGREATER NORTHWEST KANSAS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $70,760 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $62,170 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CENTRAL MONTANA — $61,890 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetNATIONAL AQUARIUM INC — $60,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Bar Association — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALTON SCHOOLS INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIntercollegiate Center For Classical Studies — $60,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $58,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY — $58,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law — $56,750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMONTCLAIR SCHOLARSHIP FUND — $51,000 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetWOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF — $51,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $50,480 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER — $50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPIEDMONT EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $49,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GOLDSTEIN FAMILY FOUNDATION — $48,750 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $47,325 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION — $45,590 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $44,660 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $43,145 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDowntown Streets Inc — $42,020 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY PREPARATORY ACADEMY — $40,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTUFTS UNIVERSITY ALUMNI ASSOCIATION INC — $38,200 over 3y, 5.4% of budgetMARK DAY SCHOOL — $37,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD PANTRY INC — $35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budget
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.

The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…The Goldman Sachs Cha…ImpactassetsincUnited Way of the Bay…Tides FoundationMcNabb FoundationThe Wilson Sonsini Go…Perkins Coie Foundati…Marin Community Found…United Way Worldwide
The San Francisco FoundationCA25.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Impactassetsinc · United Way of the Bay Area · Tides Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Perkins Coie Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · United Way Worldwide

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 Fenwick Community Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc — 2% of income from government
  • National Aquarium Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 142 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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