· Private foundation
Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $375k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY | $25,000 |
| ALBANY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION (PTA) | $20,000 |
| GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COTATI-ROHNERT PARK | $20,000 |
| TEACHING WELL INC | $20,000 |
| FRANKLIN-MCKINLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| THE MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION (PTA) | $20,000 |
| CASTRO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| EAST SIDE UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $59k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 72% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 80% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
95 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 70 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $283k 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
- BSBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY9× · 2017–2025 · $281k · revenue +74%
- SSSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS8× · 2017–2025 · $279k · revenue +128%
- KAKHAN ACADEMY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $150k · revenue +123%
Funded once
- SSSMALL SCHOOLS FOR EQUITYone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -57%
- FAFOOTHILL-DE ANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $25k
- CECHINESE EDUCATION CENTER SAN FRANCISCO UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICTone grant, 2017 · $20k
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.
Build the parent and community demand for world-class public schools, and to accelerate the growth of these schools, particularly for low-income students, students of colors, and students with special needs.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
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 las mission is to create a learning community where students: utilize bilingualism and biliteracy (spanish and english) to achieve academic excellence and apply skills in real-world situations and diverse settings; develop and exhibit…
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
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…
To ensure students reach their fullest potential through access to learning spaces that honor and celebrate students' rich cultural heritage and challenge them with rigorous and relevant learning experiences designed to make them active…
Our mission is to create inclusive, empowering, and college-preparatory experiences that equip students to succeed in college, career, and as leaders in their communities.
To help each child reach his/her full potential by cultivating an active village of parents, community members, and stakeholders involved in providing an individual, personal, and conceptual learning environment for each student.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education for Change and the most unlike its peers is Kairos Academies Vanguard. 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 24 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
129 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. 129 of the 195 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 PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NEW TEACHER CENTER ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOR CHANGE ↗
- Who funds Guttmacher Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Trust Women Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds JANE'S DUE PROCESS INC ↗
- Who funds HAYWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEENS OF THE CASTRO INC ↗
- Who funds MINDFUL SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL STUDENTS FOR CHOICE ↗
- Who funds THE PARENTS & TEACHERS OF BUENA VISTA HORACE MANN ↗
- Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds NORTH OAKLAND COMMUNITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds Physicians For Reproductive Health ↗
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 San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The Family Giving Tree · Silicon Schools Fund Inc · Quest Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Golden State Community Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Kenneth Rainin 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 Intrepid Philanthropy 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.
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Southern Oregon Friends of Hospice — 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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