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California · Public charity

k18n Foundation

To support the programs and activities of Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

$41M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
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100% of k18n Foundation’s FY2024 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. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

0
’23
0
’24

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

Median grant, FY2024
$40,893,524
Largest grant, FY2024
$40,893,524
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$2.3B
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Community Improvement$60M

Top grantees

Largest grants in FY2024.

Silicon Valley Community Foundation$40,893,524

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How do I get to k18n Foundation?

Find your warmest path to k18n 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.

About k18n Foundation

How much does k18n Foundation give?
k18n Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $40,893,524 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does k18n Foundation fund?
By grant dollars, its largest causes are Community Improvement (100%).
Where is k18n Foundation based?
k18n Foundation is based in CA.

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 1 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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