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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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2023
30
Grants FY2023
3
States reached
$350k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Education$3.0MYouth Development$1.4MScience & Tech$1.4MArts & Culture$806kHealth$353kHuman Services$296kPhilanthropy$80kFood & Nutrition$68kOther$0
02FY2023 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k9 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $219k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $605k
  • $250k+1 grant · $350k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM$350,000
SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION$134,578
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$105,000
FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SF BAY AREA$105,000
Individual grant recipient$55,000
THE TECH MUSEUM$55,000
KRAUSE CENTER FOR INNOVATION$50,000
UCSF FOUNDATION$50,000
NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY$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
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%COVENANT HOUSE OF CALIFORNIA: $1k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $25k → 10%FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN: $15k → 10%AIM HIGH: $10k → 10%ASPIRANET: $20k → 7%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $25k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $25k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $25k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $25k → 10%GIRLS INC OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $25k → 10%SARATOGA AREA SENIOR COORDINATING C: $40k → 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.8M · 41 repeat orgs$932k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +74% since the first grant, against +44% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
29

Total granted

$6.8M
$917k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+44%

Still filing today

56%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CH
    COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM
    7× · 2017–2023 · $970k · revenue +93%
  • SV
    SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · $595k · revenue +15%
  • FO
    FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
    5× · 2019–2023 · $340k · revenue +119%

Funded once

  • MT
    Michigan Tech Fund
    one grant, 2019 · $375k · revenue -37%
  • BG
    BOYS GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2017 · $110k
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $100k · revenue +180%
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
Achievekids

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…

Education
2
Southern California University of Health Sciences

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,…

Education
3
Stem Advantage

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…

Youth Development
4
Enterprise for Youth

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.

Youth Development
5
Cabrillo Education Foundation

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…

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6
The Peak School

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…

Education
7
University of Southern California

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…

Education
8
10000 Degrees

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.…

Education
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
10
Children's Aid College Prep Charter School

Prepare elementary & middle school students for success in high school, college & life.

Education
11
Partners in College Success

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,…

Education
12
College Match

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Silicon Valley; 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.
04the grantee network

40 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. 40 of the 73 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/40
Grantees still filing
28/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY: $697,500 · OtherMICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITYKRAUSE CENTER FOR INNOVATION: $384,000 · OtherKRAUSE CENTER FOR INNOVATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $310,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBIndividual grant recipient: $241,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientALEARN SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $230,000 · OtherALEARN SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUB - PENINSULA: $215,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB - PENINSULAEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREP: $179,000 · OtherEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPMISC CHARITIES: $160,500 · OtherBOYS GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA: $110,000 · Other+31 more: $600,521 · Other+31 moreMichigan Tech Fund: $375,000 · EducationMichigan Tech FundFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $340,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $300,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA S…NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $210,000 · EducationNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITYBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $120,000 · EducationBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLE…EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $114,000 · EducationEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATO…East Side Union High School District Education Foundation: $111,500 · EducationEast Side Union High Schoo…KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $85,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $75,000 · Education+7 more: $85,242 · EducationCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $969,864 · Arts & CultureCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUMTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $702,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTERACTIVEMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $70,000 · Arts & CultureSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $595,415 · Community ImprovementSILICON V…BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 · Community ImprovementGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $125,000 · Human ServicesSARATOGA AREA SENIOR COORDINATING COUNCIL: $40,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $40,000 · Human ServicesASPIRANET: $20,000 · Human ServicesAIM HIGH: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY: $45,000 · Youth DevelopmentSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 · HealthCANCER CAREPOINT INC: $10,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 · Health+1 more: $500 · Health
Other$3,127,521Education$1,815,742Arts & Culture$1,741,864Community Improvement$620,415Human Services$236,000Youth Development$145,000Health$22,500

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 budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $969,864 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $702,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $595,415 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN - SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA: $340,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $300,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY: $210,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF ALAMEDA COUNTY: $125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: $120,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $114,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetEast Side Union High School District Education Foundation: $111,500 over 4y, 22% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $85,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $75,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $70,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSanta Cruz Mountains Winegrowers Education Foundation: $55,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetALEARN: $55,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY: $45,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSARATOGA AREA SENIOR COORDINATING COUNCIL: $40,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN INCORPORATED: $40,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetHakone Foundation: $30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACE CHARTER SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPURSUIT OF EXCELLENCE - SOUTH BAY: $21,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetASPIRANET: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CAREPOINT INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE ADVENTURES: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,042 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION FOR AREA PEOPLE: $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS' FOOD BASKET INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PLUMPJACK FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCenter for Early Intervention on Deafness: $200 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.

  • 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 BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
  • Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ACE CHARTER SCHOOL ↗

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…Leo M Shortino Family…Quest FoundationThe Sobrato Family Fo…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Marin Community Found…The Applied Materials…The David and Lucile …The San Francisco Fou…Los Altos Mountain Vi…Gordon E and Betty I …Tides Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA26× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 House Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from House Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.

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 73 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home