· Private foundation
House Family 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $219k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $605k
- $250k+1 grant · $350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM | $350,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $134,578 |
| FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SF BAY AREA | $105,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $105,000 |
| THE TECH MUSEUM | $55,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $55,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| KRAUSE CENTER FOR INNOVATION | $50,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREP | $42,000 |
| EASTSIDE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY | $25,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY | $25,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| TEAM4TECH | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $236k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 92% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +44% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- CHCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM7× · 2017–2023 · $970k · revenue +93%
- SVSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2023 · $595k · revenue +15%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA5× · 2019–2023 · $340k · revenue +119%
Funded once
- MTMichigan Tech Fundone grant, 2019 · $375k · revenue -37%
- BGBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $110k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULAgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +180%
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.
Achievekids schools provide individualized and multi-disciplinary programs that deliver special education, mental health, and family support services for students ages 5 to 22 who have complex and often severe developmental, emotional, and…
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,…
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…
Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.
Cef is serving as a student success innovation fund to promote new, creative and powerful initiatives to improve students' education in our community. it is an advocate for and funds high leverage programs that have well defined outcomes…
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…
The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…
10,000 degrees is a leading college success nonprofit in the san francisco bay area. we help students from low-income backgrounds gain access to and complete higher education to positively impact their communities and the world.…
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.
Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.
Partners in College Success (PiCS) ensures equal access to higher education and an equitable college experience for low-income, refugee, immigrant, foster, homeless and disadvantaged youth in San Diego County. PiCS provides dedicated,…
College match partners with high schools in los angeles county to identify high-achieving, low-income high school students and provide them with the necessary tools and guidance to get into top-ranked colleges with significant financial…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Silicon Valley and the most unlike its peers is Computer History Museum. 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 31 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 73 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 COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Michigan Tech Fund ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds East Side Union High School District Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Santa Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds ALEARN ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SARATOGA AREA SENIOR COORDINATING COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Hakone Foundation ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds ACE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
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 · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Quest Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Tides 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 House 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.
- Northeastern University — 7% 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.