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Hillview Charitable 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.

$46k
Granted FY2025still arriving
4
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

65% of Hillview Charitable Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’21
8
’22
6
’23
8
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Philanthropy$83kEducation$41kFood & Nutrition$9kInternational$9kHealth$5kCommunity Improvement$2k
02FY2025 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $6k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING$30,000
LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL$10,000
CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS$3,000
DIRECT RELIEF$3,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%LOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $3k → 10%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $10k → 10%DIRECT RELIEF: $3k → 14%ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 17%PATIENT ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%SCHWAB CHARITABLE FUND: $20k → 3%MARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1k → 7%LOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $1k → 8%CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $3k → 10%DIRECT RELIEF: $2k → 14%ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%PATIENT ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $1k → 14%EL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $3k → 8%CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $2k → 10%DIRECT RELIEF: $2k → 14%ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION INC: $2k → 17%LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL: $10k → 8%CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $1k → 10%DIRECT RELIEF: $2k → 14%LOS ALTOS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 8%PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUD: $1k → 8%PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUD: $1k → 8%PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUD: $1k → 8%PTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUD: $450 → 8%COMMUNITY BUILDER TOOLBOX INC: $2k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 8 repeat orgs$19k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
4

Total granted

$48k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+4%
+21%

Still filing today

88%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
EducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionInternationalCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MV
    MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · $12k · revenue +4%
  • CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS
    4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +53%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    4× · 2022–2025 · $9k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • FO
    Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc
    one grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +21%
  • EC
    EL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
  • CB
    COMMUNITY BUILDER TOOLBOX INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +29%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Los Altos Chamber of Commerce

To encourage and promote businesses and to stimulate a vibrant economy in los altos and los altos hills.

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2
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
3
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
4
Los Altos Journalism Foundation
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5
California State University Los Angeles Foundation

To advance the educational, cultural, scholarly, and creative activities and the role of community service of csula by increasing private funding, responsibly managing donated resources and supporting the university and its diverse and…

Education
6
League of California Community Foundations

The league of california community foundations promotes and strengthens community foundations in california. through collaboration and shared learning among member foundations and building partnerships with private and public entities, we…

Philanthropy
7
California Agricultural Leadership Found

To enhance the long-term viability of california agriculture through leadership development, which in turn benefits the people and communities that agriculture serves. we grow leaders who make a difference.

Food & Nutrition
8
Berkeley Public Library Foundation

The Berkeley Public Library Foundation (BPLF) amplifies the public investment to make a great public library extraordinary. To that end, we provide vital funds and ongoing advocacy to advance the Library's mission, vision, and strategic…

Philanthropy
9
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
10
Los Angeles City College Foundation

We are committed to breaking the cycle of poverty and creating programs that drive change. by addressing students' basic needs, including food, housing, utilities, transportation, and healthcare, we enable low-income students to enroll,…

Education
11
Latino Community Foundation

Lcf exists to unleash the civic and economic power of latinos in california. lcf fulfills the mission by building a movement of critically engaged philanthropic leaders, investing in latino-led orgs, and increasing civic participation of…

Human Services
12
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Los Altos Educational Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Community Builder Toolbox Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INCLOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $3,000 · PhilanthropyMOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $11,500 · OtherMOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS…LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherLOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOLPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS OF PARENTS TEACHERS & STUD: $4,125 · OtherPTA CALIFORNIA CONGRESS…PATIENT ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $2,900 · OtherPATIENT ACCESS NETWORK …EL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,500 · OtherEL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUN…ADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION: $6,500 · EducationADVANTAGE…THE LOS ALTOS LIBRARY ENDOWMENT: $3,000 · EducationTHE LOS A…Friends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc: $3,000 · EducationFriends o…CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $8,500 · Food & NutritionDIRECT RELIEF: $8,500 · InternationalCOMMUNITY BUILDER TOOLBOX INC: $2,000 · Community Improvement
Philanthropy$86,000Other$31,025Education$12,500Food & Nutrition$8,500International$8,500Community Improvement$2,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetADVANTAGE TESTING FOUNDATION: $6,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LOS ALTOS LIBRARY ENDOWMENT: $3,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLOS ALTOS EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of the Library of Los Altos and Community Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetPATIENT ACCESS NETWORK FOUNDATION: $2,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY BUILDER TOOLBOX INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Silicon Valley Commun…The George and Judy M…The David and Lucile …Texas Instruments Fou…Tides FoundationVanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…The Blackbaud Giving …Charities Aid Foundat…National Philanthropi…American Endowment Fo…The Bank of America C…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA17× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation II · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hillview Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hillview Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Hillview Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Hillview Charitable 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 15 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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