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James V & June P Diller Family Foundation at a glance

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James V & June P Diller Family Foundation

Its FY2020 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$358k
Granted FY2017
25
Grants FY2017
6
States reached
$200k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

100% of James V & June P Diller Family Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2017, the last year James V & June P Diller Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $358k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

17
’17
5
’18
17
’19
0
’20

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.

Philanthropy$8.5MEducation$671kYouth Development$156kFood & Nutrition$81kHuman Services$34kHousing & Shelter$8kArts & Culture$2kInternational$2kOther$0
02FY2017 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under $10k18 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $141k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $200k
$1,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$200,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA$35,500
COLLEGE TRACK$35,000
PENINSULA BRIDGE$25,000
FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION$25,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$10,000
BROWN UNIVERSITY$10,000
WOODSIDE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$5,000
LIFEMOVES$4,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF SANTA CLARA AND SAN MATEO COUNTIES$3,000
STANFORD JAZZ WORKSHOP$1,000
PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC$1,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$1,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE$1,000
PLAN INTERNATIONAL USA$396
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–19, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $200 → 14%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $1k → 7%PENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $1k → 7%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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$638k · 15 repeat orgs$282k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2017, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2017 (too recent to call). Read against FY2017, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
11

Total granted

$638k
$282k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+98%
+138%

Still filing today

93%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionArts & CultureOther
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

  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA
    3× · 2017–2019 · $156k · revenue +133%
  • CT
    COLLEGE TRACK
    3× · 2017–2019 · $145k · revenue +190%
  • TP
    THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM
    3× · 2017–2019 · $140k · revenue +59%

Funded once

  • EC
    EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200k · revenue +205%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2019 · $78k
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +138%
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
Scholarship Foundation of Santa Barbara

The scholarship foundation of santa barbara inspires, encourages and supports santa barbara county students to and through college, graduate and vocational school by providing information, advising, and scholarships.

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2
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
3
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
4
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
5
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
6
San Francisco University High School

At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
9
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
10
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
11
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
12
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of the Library of Portola Valley Inc. 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

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 29 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
20/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $8,484,394 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation+1 more: $480 · PhilanthropyEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $200,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACK: $145,000 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $135,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $25,200 · Education+2 more: $15,150 · EducationTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $140,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK: $78,000 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY: $30,000 · Other+13 more: $15,443 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $155,500 · Youth DevelopmentBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 · Community ImprovementSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $3,000 · Food & NutritionPENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $400 · Human Services
Philanthropy$8,484,874Education$520,350Other$263,443Youth Development$155,500Community Improvement$10,000Food & Nutrition$3,000Human Services$2,400

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $8,484,394 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $155,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOLLEGE TRACK: $145,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $140,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $135,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $25,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSIDE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA VOLUNTEERS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetStanford Jazz Workshop: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC: $1,288 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION: $480 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSIDE-PORTOLA VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA14.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 James V & June P Diller Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from James V & June P Diller Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
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.
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How do I get to James V & June P Diller Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to James V & June P Diller Family 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 29 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 2017, released 2017. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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