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Intervalien Foundation

Intervalien Foundation will accomplish its purpose by making charitable gifts to fund projects that are within the following areas, particularly those that have traditionally been underfunded or unfunded, including but not limited to high-risk, long-term projects, but without any preference: cross-disciplinary initiatives involving…

$390k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
States reached
$108k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$1.0MEducation$860kArts & Culture$165kScience & Tech$45k
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $290k
$25,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University$108,488
University of California San Francisco Foundation$96,700
Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute$84,417
Processing Foundation$25,000
Carnegie Mellon University$25,000
Gray Area Foundation for the Arts$25,000
Ohio State University$25,000
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Carnegie Mellon University: $25k → 11%Midpeninsula Community Media Center Inc: $40k → 8%Pro Arts: $55k → 10%Gray Area Foundation for the Arts: $25k → 10%Regents of the University of California at San Diego: $50k → 11%Processing Foundation: $25k → 17%Eyebeam Atelier Inc: $20k → 20%Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute: $84k → 21%Ohio State University: $25k → 15%Minerva Foundation: $20k → 10%Gray Area Foundation for the Arts: $25k → 10%Processing Foundation: $25k → 17%Processing Foundation: $55k → 20%Karmanos Cancer Institute: $80k → 21%Code Liberation Foundation Inc: $25k → 20%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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 6 repeat orgs$291k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against -8% for those funded once.

6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$1.1M
$266k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
-8%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’19’20’21’22’24
EducationHealthPublic BenefitArts & CultureEmploymentOther
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

  • BA
    BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE
    2× · 2022–2024 · $164k · revenue +35%
  • PF
    PROCESSING FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +23%
  • CM
    Carnegie Mellon University
    2× · 2022–2024 · $50k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2022 · $56k
  • PA
    Pro Arts Inc
    one grant, 2021 · $55k · revenue -91%
  • RO
    REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
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
California Institute of Contemporary Art
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2
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
3
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
4
Stanbridge University Foundation
Education
5
Art Foundation
Arts & Culture
6
Fund for Art Science and Technology
—
7
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
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10
Case Western Reserve University

Case Western Reserve University is an independent, research-oriented university with broadly based strengths in health, including medicine, nursing and dentistry; in engineering; in the arts and sciences; and in law, management and social…

Education
11
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
12
Pomona College

Throughout its history, pomona college has educated men and women of exceptional promise. we gather individuals, regardless of financial circumstances, into a small residential community that is strongly rooted in southern california yet…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carnegie Mellon University; the most unlike its peers is Minerva Foundation. 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

11 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. 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
7/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $742,303 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $671,700 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONPROCESSING FOUNDATION: $105,000 · EducationPROCESSING FOUNDATION+1 more: $45,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO: $55,555 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF C…Pro Arts Inc: $55,000 · OtherPro Arts IncCarnegie Mellon University: $50,000 · OtherCarnegie Mellon…REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT SAN DIEGO: $50,000 · OtherREGENTS OF THE …CODE LIBERATION FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · OtherCODE LIBERATION…THE OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY: $25,000 · OtherTHE OHIO STATE …Minerva Foundation: $20,000 · OtherMinerva Foundat…BARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $164,317 · HealthGRAY AREA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $50,000 · Arts & CultureMidpeninsula Community Media Center Inc: $40,000 · Public BenefitTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $20,000 · Employment
Education$1,564,003Other$280,555Health$164,317Arts & Culture$50,000Public Benefit$40,000Employment$20,000

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 budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $742,303 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $671,700 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBARBARA ANN KARMANOS CANCER INSTITUTE: $164,317 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROCESSING FOUNDATION: $105,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetPro Arts Inc: $55,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetCarnegie Mellon University: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRAY AREA FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS: $50,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF DENVER: $45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMidpeninsula Community Media Center Inc: $40,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetTHE EYEBEAM ATELIER INC: $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMinerva Foundation: $20,000 over 1y, 12% 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.

American Online Givin…Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 1 of 1Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%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 · 0–20%
    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 Intervalien Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Intervalien 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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