· Private foundation
Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| TEACHING WELL INC | $20,000 |
| EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COTATI-ROHNERT PARK | $20,000 |
| COLLEGE PARK ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| CASTRO VALLEY HIGH SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| ALBANY UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| GATEWAY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $20,000 |
| FRANKLIN-MCKINLEY SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK ELEMENTARY PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION (PTA) | $20,000 |
| THE MARSHALL ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT TEACHER ASSOCIATION (PTA) | $20,000 |
| OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $20,000 |
| LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 9% of Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 83% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 80%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
129 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. 129 of the 195 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 JANE'S DUE PROCESS INC ↗
- Who funds HAYWARD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Trust Women Foundation Inc ↗
- 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 ↗
- Who funds YU MING 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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