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First Republic Foundation

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$866k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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 FY2021–2023.

Arts & Culture$6.4MEducation$3.5MHousing & Shelter$3.0MYouth Development$1.4MHuman Services$363kCommunity Improvement$250kEnvironment$235kInternational$222kOther$0
02FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $593k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$110,914
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHELSEA FACTORY$250,000
TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY$221,504
ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC$150,000
EDEN HOUSING INC$110,914
THE BOTTOM LINE INC$110,914
SESAME WORKSHOP$10,000
SIMA STUDIOS$7,500
MARINES MEMORIAL FUND$5,000
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 (FY21–23, $627k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 95% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Pine Street Inn: $100k → 16%Womensv: $9k → 8%Gold House Foundation Inc: $5k → 14%American Institute for Stuttering: $5k → 17%Clackamas Women's Services: $9k → 8%Carver Foundation of Norwalk: $6k → 9%The People Concern: $100k → 14%City Living NY: $75k → 20%LifeWire: $5k → 9%La Alianza Hispana: $5k → 16%City Living NY: $50k → 20%Black Parent Initiative: $6k → 12%Jay Nolan Community Services Inc: $5k → 14%Community Arts Stabilization Trust: $225k → 10%LightHouse For the Blind: $5k → 10%SIMA STUDIOS: $8k → 14%Project Glimmer: $5k → 10%Self-Help for the Elderly: $5k → 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

VT
WA
ID
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
DC
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.3M · 11 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 10 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
119

Total granted

$8.3M
$6.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $616k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther

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

  • NR
    NEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION
    2× · 2021–2022 · $250k · revenue +15%
  • TS
    Ten Strands
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +577%
  • JS
    JUILLIARD SCHOOL
    2× · 2021–2022 · $200k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY
    one grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue -34%
  • AF
    ALI FORNEY CENTER INC
    one grant, 2022 · $755k · revenue +18%
  • TP
    THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2021 · $600k · revenue -3%

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
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

—
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
3
Epacenter

Epacenter's mission is to increase opportunities for youth to discover and amplify their talents, realize their potential, and impact the world through art, design, and technology.

Arts & Culture
4
Presidio Hill School

Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…

Education
5
Digital Nest Inc

Digital nest (nurturing entrepreneurial skills with technology) is dedicated to providing equal access to technology and resources to young people in underserved communities. digital nest seeks to stimulate economic development by…

Youth Development
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
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
10
City Year Inc

City year helps students and schools succeed, while preparing the next generation of civically engaged leaders who can work across lines of difference. partnering with teachers, teams of city year americorps members cultivate learning…

Unclassified
11
Institute for Nonprofit Practice Inc

The institute for nonprofit practice's mission is to transform communities by equipping the most promising nonprofit leaders with the skills, confidence, and resources they need to make their organizations effective, innovative, and…

Human Services
12
Bay Area Hybrid College Initiative Dba Rivet School

Rivet School's mission is to build and scale a new model of higher education that reliably enables traditionally underserved students to earn an affordable bachelor's degree in as little as two years, leading to a great first job and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Grand Teton National Park 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 backsteadyLgbtq+ Community SupportOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Affordable Housing Developm…Senior Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersEnvironmental Conservation …Independent K-12 SchoolsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Youth Mentoring ProgramsPolicy Research and AdvocacyMilitary Veterans SupportDomestic Violence ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportElementary Literacy TutoringYouth Development ServicesYouth Sports ProgramsDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Foundations
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 31 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%29%20–35yr13%31%35–55yr16%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%37%<5yr14%11%5–10yr20%6%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%7%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 37% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%2/115
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,645

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

114 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. 114 of the 138 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/114
Grantees still filing
74/114
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE CHELSEA FACTORY INC — $5,250,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHELSEA FACTORY INC+16 more — $640,000 · Arts & Culture+16 moreSTUDENT FREEDOM INITIATIVE INC — $1,500,000 · EducationSTUDENT FREEDOM INITIAT…THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $600,000 · EducationTHE POSSE FOUNDATION IN…PREP FOR PREP — $225,000 · EducationPREP FOR PREPJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $200,000 · EducationJUILLIARD SCHOOLEXODUS SCHOOL — $150,000 · EducationJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $150,000 · Education+10 more — $450,555 · Education+10 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY — $1,000,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUMA…ALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $755,000 · Housing & ShelterALI FORNEY CENTE…ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $150,000 · Housing & ShelterENTERPRISE COMMU…NON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $130,000 · Housing & ShelterNON-PROFIT HOUSI…EDEN HOUSING INC — $110,914 · Housing & ShelterA COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS — $100,000 · Housing & ShelterBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION — $100,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $10,555 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION — $250,000 · OtherNEIGHBORHOOD REINVE…Individual grant recipient — $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant re…St Francis Center -Holy Family School — $150,000 · OtherSt Francis Center -…Habitat For Humanity Silicon ValleyEast Bay — $150,000 · OtherHabitat For Humanit…HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN FRANCISCO — $100,000 · OtherRebuilding Together Oakland East Bay — $100,000 · OtherFIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC — $100,000 · OtherHousing Accelerator Fund — $100,000 · OtherLA Urban League — $100,000 · OtherSt Francis Center — $100,000 · OtherTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $221,504 · OtherTIPPING POINT COMMU…Ten Strands — $200,000 · OtherTen StrandsLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 · OtherTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $100,000 · Other+50 more — $753,670 · Other+50 moreCOMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST — $225,000 · Human ServicesCITY LIVING NY INC — $125,000 · Human ServicesTHE PEOPLE CONCERN — $100,000 · Human ServicesPINE STREET INN INC — $100,000 · Human Services+13 more — $76,610 · Human ServicesNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $210,000 · Youth DevelopmentCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTEM EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE INC — $50,000 · Youth Development+6 more — $38,055 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $110,914 · Community ImprovementCODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $100,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT — $100,000 · Community ImprovementTHE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC — $50,000 · Community ImprovementINTERNATIONAL COALITION OF GIRLS SCHOOLS — $50,000 · Community Improvement+1 more — $5,000 · Community Improvement
Arts & Culture$5,890,000Education$3,275,555Housing & Shelter$2,356,469Other$2,775,174Human Services$626,610Youth Development$423,055Community Improvement$415,914

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE CHELSEA FACTORY INC — $5,250,000 over 3y, 65% of budgetSTUDENT FREEDOM INITIATIVE INC — $1,500,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY — $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC — $755,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INC — $600,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD REINVESTMENT CORPORATION — $250,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPREP FOR PREP — $225,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY ART STABILIZATION TRUST — $225,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $221,504 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP — $210,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTen Strands — $200,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEXODUS SCHOOL — $150,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetJUMPSTART FOR YOUNG CHILDREN INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetENTERPRISE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNON-PROFIT HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA — $130,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCITY LIVING NY INC — $125,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $110,914 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDEN HOUSING INC — $110,914 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDANCEUSA — $110,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budget10000 DEGREES — $105,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE YOUNG MEN'S AND YOUNG WOMEN'S HEBREW ASSOCIATION — $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSPHINX ORGANIZATION INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetA COMMUNITY OF FRIENDS — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN FRANCISCO — $100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCODMAN SQUARE NEIGHBORHOOD DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE PEOPLE CONCERN — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION — $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFIFTH AVENUE COMMITTEE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetLUNDQUIST INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL INNOVATION AT HARBOR-UCLA MEDICAL CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER OF BOSTON INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetPINE STREET INN INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT — $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSt Francis Center — $100,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE EDUCATION — $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRAINIER SCHOLARS — $85,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVERTEX PARTNERSHIP ACADEMIES INC — $80,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBOSTON CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC — $75,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BASIC FUND — $60,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSTUDENTSPONSOR PARTNERS INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetDEBBIE ALLEN DANCE INC DEBBIE ALLEN DANCE ACADEMY — $50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetKQED INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE OUTSIDE — $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNATIONAL DIVERSITY COALITION INC — $50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE NEW 42ND STREET INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ACCELERATION PROJECT INC — $50,000 over 1y, 2.4% 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…Kaiser Foundation Hos…McNabb FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Crankstart FoundationMarin Community Found…East Bay Community Fo…The Henry Mayo Newhal…United Way of the Bay…California Community …The California Wellne…Asian Pacific Fund
The San Francisco FoundationCA34.8× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Henry Mayo Newhall Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · California Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Asian Pacific 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 First Republic 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Black Parent Initiative — 45% of income from government
  • La Alianza Hispana Inc — 41% of income from government
  • Clackamas Women's Services — 33% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
  • Cascade Aids Project — 13% of income from government
  • Chica Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Silver Lining Mentoring Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Center for Creative Education — 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Boston Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Enterprise Community Development Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Community Music Center of Boston Inc — 1% of income from government
  • North Pole Studio — 0% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to First Republic Foundation?

Find your warmest path to First Republic Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 138 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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