· Private foundation
Grousbeck Family Foundation II Dated May 18 2011
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $355k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $1.0M
- $250k+1 grant · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUSTS | $334,000 |
| PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST | $200,000 |
| AMHERST COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $150,000 |
| STANFORD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF BUSINESS | $150,000 |
| KIPP PUBLIC SCHOOL NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $100,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $68,000 |
| PENINSULA BRIDGE | $65,000 |
| ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION | $50,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA | $50,000 |
| ALL FIVE | $50,000 |
| EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
| THE PENINSULA COLLEGE FUND | $35,000 |
| ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE | $30,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN FRANCISCO | $30,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $72k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 4 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $369k 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
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +52%
- POPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST7× · 2017–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +164%
- KBKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS7× · 2017–2024 · $1.3M · revenue +126%
Funded once
- UBUC Berkeley Foundationone grant, 2018 · $2.0M
- ALAFRICAN LEADERSHIPone grant, 2021 · $200k
- LALatin American Leadership Foundation Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $66k · revenue +175%
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
Pitzer College produces engaged socially responsible citizens of the world through an academically rigorous, interdisciplinary liberal arts education emphasizing social justice, intercultural understanding and environmental sensitivity.…
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…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…
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…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Our institutional mission is to educate and prepare students to be ethical leaders and socially responsible global citizens who incorporate the dominican values of study, reflection, community and service into their lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alder Graduate School of Education and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 30 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 79 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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
- Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds St Francis Center ↗
- Who funds AMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES ↗
- Who funds Families in Transition ↗
- Who funds NURU INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALTHY CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds All Five ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds The Peninsula College Fund ↗
- Who funds EAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA FAMILY CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds RESURGE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds MENLO COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Environmental Traveling Companions ↗
- Who funds Lava Mae ↗
- Who funds ACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES ↗
- Who funds ASURION COMPASSION FUND ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Building Futures Now ↗
- Who funds MARTHA'S VINEYARD CEREBRAL PALSY CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds SHINE TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds LIFE MINISTRIES 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Marin Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Tosa Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Franklin and Catherine Johnson 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 Grousbeck Family Foundation II Dated May 18 2011 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.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% 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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