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K2N2 Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70k
Granted FY2025still arriving
37
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Environment$208kEducation$57kHuman Services$24kFood & Nutrition$22kPhilanthropy$16kArts & Culture$14kRecreation & Sports$10kHealth$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k35 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $41k
$250
Median grant
5
States reached
$741k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANOPY$26,000
SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE$15,000
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$5,000
COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY$4,150
LIVING CLASSROOM$3,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION$2,000
UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION$2,000
HOPES CORNER INC$1,200
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION$1,000
MENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION$1,000
INATURALIST$1,000
CHANNEL ISLANDS RESTORATION$1,000
PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST$1,000
YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY$700
FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION$500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 8% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $1k → 16%SEWA INTERNATIONAL INC: $250 → 16%CARE FOR REAL: $150 → 14%NIGHT MINISTRY: $200 → 14%THE NIGHT MINISTRY: $100 → 14%YWCA GOLDEN GATE SILICON VALLEY: $300 → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $700 → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $500 → 8%REACH POTENTIAL MOVEMENT: $300 → 8%ANIMAL ASSISTED HAPPINESS INC: $250 → 8%ANIMAL ASSISTED HAPPINESS INC: $200 → 8%ANIMAL ASSISTED HAPPINESS INC: $200 → 8%ANIMAL ASSISTED HAPPINESS INC: $200 → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $5k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $4k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $4k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $950 → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $850 → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $575 → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $550 → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $500 → 8%COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY: $500 → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

MN
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CO
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HI
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$340k · 59 repeat orgs$26k to everyone else

59 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
42

Total granted

$340k
$22k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+48%

Still filing today

93%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EnvironmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • C
    Canopy
    9× · 2017–2025 · $151k · revenue +190%
  • ST
    SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE
    2× · 2024–2025 · $26k · revenue +18%
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +131%

Funded once

  • HF
    Honnold Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • NAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC
    one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue -54%
  • PR
    Pine Ridge Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +326%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Sustainable Conservation

Sustainable Conservation advances the collaborative stewardship of Californias land, air, and water for the benefit of nature and people. For over three decades, Sustainable Conservation has built coalitions of people with different…

Environment
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
5
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
6
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
7
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
8
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
9
The Sierra Fund

The Sierra Fund (TSF) is a non-profit organization with a mission to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada.

Environment
10
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
11
San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory

The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.

Environment
12
Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Nit Trichy Usa Alumni Chapter. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Sports ProgramsMilitary Veterans SupportYouth Development ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Community College Foundatio…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Cancer Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Health Access Advocacy and …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Policy Research and AdvocacyLocal Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesAnimal Rescue and ShelterChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…School District Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%4%<5yr15%3%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr17%25%20–35yr11%21%35–55yr13%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%1%<5yr15%2%5–10yr20%12%10–20yr17%56%20–35yr11%8%35–55yr13%21%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%1/110
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,868

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.

04the grantee network

109 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. 109 of the 120 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/109
Grantees still filing
68/109
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Canopy — $150,750 · EnvironmentCanopySAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $26,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE+15 more — $21,098 · Environment+15 moreLIVING CLASSROOM — $9,800 · OtherLIVING CLASSROOMMOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $6,500 · OtherMOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTO…THE FAMILY GIVING TREE — $5,200 · OtherTHE FAMILY GIVING TREEBay Area Ridge Trail Council — $5,050 · OtherBay Area Ridge Trail C…MIDPENINSULA REGIONAL OPEN SPACE DISTRICT — $4,750 · OtherMIDPENINSULA REGIONAL …MOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL BAND PARENTS ASSOCIATION — $3,525 · OtherMOUNTAIN VIEW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,850 · OtherYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $3,500 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $4,000 · OtherMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $3,125 · Other+53 more — $28,525 · Other+53 moreUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationUC SANTA …UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $6,000 · EducationUNIVERSIT…MENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION — $4,750 · EducationMENTOR TU…Trustees of Tufts College — $4,000 · EducationTrustees …Mountain View Educational Foundation — $3,200 · EducationMountain …KHAN ACADEMY INC — $2,500 · EducationKHAN ACAD…+3 more — $1,500 · EducationCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC — $16,475 · Human ServicesMAITRI — $3,500 · Human ServicesSewa International Inc — $1,251 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $1,200 · Human ServicesAnimal Assisted Happiness Inc — $850 · Human Services+4 more — $1,050 · Human ServicesEASTIE FARM INC — $10,000 · Food & NutritionHopes Corner Inc — $9,250 · Food & NutritionSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $1,700 · Food & Nutrition+1 more — $300 · Food & NutritionLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $8,300 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 · PhilanthropyNORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $1,000 · Philanthropy+10 more — $3,900 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $4,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC — $3,200 · Arts & CultureCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS — $2,100 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $1,250 · Arts & CultureMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$197,848Other$76,825Education$31,950Human Services$24,326Food & Nutrition$21,250Philanthropy$18,200Arts & Culture$11,550

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCanopy — $150,750 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetSAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE — $26,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES AGENCY OF MOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS AND LOS ALTOS HILLS INC — $16,475 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetEASTIE FARM INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING CLASSROOM — $9,800 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetHopes Corner Inc — $9,250 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $8,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW LOS ALTOS HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAMILY GIVING TREE — $5,200 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBay Area Ridge Trail Council — $5,050 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHonnold Foundation — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION — $4,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVENTANA WILDERNESS ALLIANCE — $3,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW HIGH SCHOOL BAND PARENTS ASSOCIATION — $3,525 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMAITRI — $3,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOSEMITE FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC — $3,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMountain View Educational Foundation — $3,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $3,125 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW CHAMBER OF COMMERCE EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $2,850 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChannel Islands Restoration — $2,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SCHOOL OF MUSIC AND ARTS — $2,100 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Bay — $2,073 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION — $1,750 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $1,700 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON ROOTS FARM — $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFRIENDS OF STEVENS CREEK TRAIL — $1,400 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL — $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSewa International Inc — $1,251 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPine Ridge Association — $1,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWild Wonder Foundation — $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAnimal Assisted Happiness Inc — $850 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSIERRA CLUB FOUNDATION — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Gordon E and Betty I …Los Altos Mountain Vi…The David and Lucile …Silicon Valley Commun…The Sobrato Family Fo…The William & Flora H…PatagoniaorgThe Los Altos Rotary …Embarcadero Media Fou…Sutter Bay Medical Fo…The Intuit FoundationTides Foundation
Gordon E and Betty I Moore FoundationCA37.5× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Los Altos Rotary Endowment Fund Inc · Embarcadero Media Foundation · Sutter Bay Medical Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · Tides 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 K2N2 Family 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 13%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Eastie Farm Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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