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K2N2 Family Foundation at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
MENTOR TUTOR CONNECTION$1,000
CHANNEL ISLANDS RESTORATION$1,000
PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST$1,000
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION$1,000
INATURALIST$1,000
YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY$700
FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION$500
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 (FY17–25, $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. Its 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
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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
IN
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
MD
NC
DC
HI
OK
LA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+20%
+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
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

  • 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%
  • PR
    Pine Ridge Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +326%
  • SF
    SOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +84%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is California Community Foundation; 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.
04the grantee network

109 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. 109 of the 120 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
106/109
Grantees still filing
67/109
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHonnold Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 budgetMountain View Educational Foundation: $3,200 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKQED INC: $3,200 over 7y, 0.0% 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 budgetCOMMON ROOTS FARM: $1,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSEMPERVIRENS FUND: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL: $1,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF STEVENS CREEK TRAIL: $1,400 over 4y, 0.5% 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 budgetPine Ridge Association: $1,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetSOCIETY FOR THE BLIND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWild Wonder Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMINNESOTA PUBLIC RADIO AMERICAN PUBLIC MEDIA: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $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
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.

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

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 K2N2 Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from K2N2 Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
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.

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 120 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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