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Grey Family 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.

$554k
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$70k
Largest
01What you fund
0197% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Education$881kHealth$682kHuman Services$671kEnvironment$317kInternational$158kFood & Nutrition$125kReligion$110kArts & Culture$95kOther$0
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k12 grants · $78k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $301k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEDCYCLE NETWORK$70,000
ALL UNDER 5000$54,650
GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION$50,000
THE FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE VASCULAR CURES$37,500
MONARCH NEIHART HISTORICAL GROUP$35,000
SF MARIN FOOD BANK$35,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$30,000
MADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$25,000
THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION$24,000
OPERATION ACCESS$20,000
GREY BEARS$15,000
WESTMINSTER PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH VA$15,000
KENTFIELD INVESTS IN KIDS$12,500
THE UCI FOUNDATION$12,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
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 (FY19–25, $47k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%GREY BEARS: $15k → 13%LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED: $12k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $15k → 10%COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES: $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

MT
IL
NY
MA
OR
IA
CA
VA
MD
DC
HI
GA
TX

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 26 repeat orgs$463k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +56% since the first grant, against +46% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
28

Total granted

$2.3M
$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+56%
+46%

Still filing today

54%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthAnimalsEducationPhilanthropyHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
    3× · 2022–2024 · $302k · revenue +56%
  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE VASCULAR CURES
    8× · 2017–2025 · $255k · revenue +519%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    7× · 2019–2025 · $85k · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • KF
    KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALSgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $60k · revenue +46%
  • MC
    MEADOW CLUB FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • UC
    UCSF CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY IN SURGERY AND ANESTHESIA FUND
    one grant, 2024 · $15k

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
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
3
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Ucsf Health Medical Foundation

See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…

Health
8
California Healthcare Foundation

Chcf is dedicated to advancing meaningful, measurable improvements in the way the health care delivery system provides care to the people of california, particularly those with low incomes and those whose needs are not well served by the…

9
Marin Community Clinic

To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.

Health
10
Sutter Bay Hospitals

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
11
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
12
Kaiser Foundation for the Advancement of Integrated Health Care

Kaiser foundation for the advancement of integrated health care is a nonprofit 501(c)(4) advocacy organization to engage in proactive advocacy to promote understanding of the benefits of integrated care and coverage, and support of the…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marin General Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Childrens Crisis Center of Stanislaus County. 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 backsteady#14#11#20#3#18#15#17#10#7
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 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%13%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr11%31%35–55yr13%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%5%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%4%10–20yr17%42%20–35yr11%36%35–55yr13%12%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/51
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,927

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

46 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 46 of the 71 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
25/46
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ALL UNDER 5000 — $604,866 · OtherALL UNDER 5000THE FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE VASCULAR CURES — $255,000 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE VASCULAR CURESMEDCYCLE NETWORK INC — $105,000 · OtherMEDCYCLE NETWORK INCSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $85,000 · OtherALLIANCE FOR GLOBAL CLINICAL TRAINING — $72,400 · Other+41 more — $563,950 · Other+41 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $438,254 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUST…SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL — $50,000 · EducationSANTA CATALINA SCH…THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $32,000 · EducationTHE CAMPANILE FOUN…+4 more — $34,500 · Education+4 moreGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $275,000 · PhilanthropyGREAT FALLS …HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMU…MEADOW CLUB FOUNDATION — $25,000 · PhilanthropyMEADOW CLUB …+2 more — $15,000 · PhilanthropyTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $302,321 · EnvironmentTHE TRUST …Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition — $75,000 · HealthKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS — $60,000 · HealthMADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 · HealthMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 · Health+3 more — $15,000 · HealthMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC — $152,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,500 · InternationalCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 · Human ServicesGREY BEARS — $15,000 · Human ServicesLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $12,000 · Human Services
Other$1,686,216Education$554,754Philanthropy$365,000Environment$302,321Health$185,000International$178,000Human Services$47,000

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 BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $438,254 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $302,321 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — $275,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE VASCULAR CURES — $255,000 over 8y, 6.8% of budgetMEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC — $152,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK — $85,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAmbulatory Surgery Access Coalition — $75,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetKAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS — $60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSANTA CATALINA SCHOOL — $50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMEADOW CLUB FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetWILDCARE — $24,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST — $20,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREY BEARS — $15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDRENS CRISIS CENTER OF STANISLAUS COUNTY — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION — $12,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVOICES FOR CHILDREN — $12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSONOMA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY — $9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OREGON ZOO FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOREGON HEALTH & SCIENCE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA OF LOS ANGELES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget826 Valencia — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMID-PENINSULA BOYS & GIRLS CLUB INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlexandria Symphony Orchestra — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL BREAST CENTER FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON HUMANE SOCIETY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND
  • Who funds GREAT FALLS PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE FOUNDATION TO ADVANCE VASCULAR CURES
  • Who funds MEDSHARE INTERNATIONAL INC
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
  • Who funds Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition
  • Who funds KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITALS
  • Who funds SANTA CATALINA SCHOOL
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
  • Who funds THE CAMPANILE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds BAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM
  • Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
  • Who funds MADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
  • Who funds MEADOW CLUB FOUNDATION
  • Who funds WILDCARE
  • Who funds THE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST
  • Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES
  • Who funds GREY BEARS
  • Who funds CHILDRENS CRISIS CENTER OF STANISLAUS COUNTY
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA IRVINE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED
  • Who funds OKIZU FOUNDATION

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.

Marin Community FoundationCA14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

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 Grey 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 10%
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • Oregon Health & Science University Foundation1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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 Grey Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Grey Family 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 71 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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