· Private foundation
Kevin and Nicole Systrom Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k2 grants · $25k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $450k
- $250k+2 grants · $625k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $375,000 |
| PRIME COALITION INC | $250,000 |
| ACTIVATE GLOBAL INC | $200,000 |
| THE NUEVA SCHOOL | $200,000 |
| TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
| FOOD FOR SOUL INC | $15,000 |
| RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC | $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 (FY24–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AGACTIVATE GLOBAL INC3× · 2022–2024 · $500k · revenue +67%
- NSNUEVA SCHOOL2× · 2023–2024 · $400k · revenue +19%
- CICERES INC2× · 2022–2023 · $100k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +1%
- AIACTUATE INNOVATION INCone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -99%
- BMBERKELEY MUSIC GROUPone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +3%
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.
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Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
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How this is measured
13 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.
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 TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ACTIVATE GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds NUEVA SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds TISBEST PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ACTUATE INNOVATION INC ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY MUSIC GROUP ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR SOUL INC ↗
- Who funds THE RELEASE RECOVERY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Kevin and Nicole Systrom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kevin and Nicole Systrom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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