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Gilead 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
- $10k–50k3 grants · $39k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.8M
- $250k+19 grants · $16M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| America Online Giving Foundation Inc | $6,000,000 |
| The University Corporation San Francisco State | $1,500,000 |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | $1,000,000 |
| Yellow Work Inc | $1,000,000 |
| Oakland Fund for Public Innovation | $1,000,000 |
| Pulse of Perseverance | $916,525 |
| Morehouse College | $500,000 |
| St John's Community Health | $500,000 |
| Samaritan House | $500,000 |
| Life Science Cares Inc | $500,000 |
| ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $500,000 |
| UK Online Giving Foundation | $405,000 |
| 10000 DEGREES | $375,000 |
| Kingmakers of Oakland | $255,000 |
| Kqed Inc | $250,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $490k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 34% of Gilead Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 17 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.4M 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE2× · 2023–2024 · $5.0M · revenue +12%
- SJST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH3× · 2022–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +36%
- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGE3× · 2022–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +21%
Funded once
- AOAMERICA ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3.0M
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $550k · revenue +25%- COCITY OF FOSTER CITYESTERO MUNICIPAL IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTone grant, 2022 · $500k
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.
Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…
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…
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…
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…
Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…
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,…
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…
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…
At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…
Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
The mission of southern california university of health sciences (scu) is to educate students as competent, caring and successful practitioners of integrative healthcare. the university is committed to providing excellence in academics,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grantmakers for Education and the most unlike its peers is Unidos Y Adelante. 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.
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 28 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 116 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 AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY CORPORATION SAN FRANCISCO STATE ↗
- Who funds Oakland Fund for Public Innovation ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds Yellow Work Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JOHN'S COMMUNITY HEALTH ↗
- Who funds PULSE OF PERSEVERANCE ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SAN MATEO-FOSTER CITY COMMUNITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FORWARD IMPACT ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds Kingmakers of Oakland ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE SCIENCE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds ALL STARS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds FRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds STUDENTS 2 SCIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds Global Strategies ↗
- Who funds PARS EQUALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds WE CARE SOLAR ↗
- Who funds San Mateo Police Activities League Inc ↗
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: East Bay Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation · Tipping Point Community · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Golden State Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · McNabb Foundation
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 Gilead 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.
- Liberty Science Center — 14% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Students 2 Science Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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