· Private foundation
Kieve Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $78k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $260k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DREAM FETCHERS | $100,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| SOI DOG FOUNDATION USA | $25,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF SILICON VALLEY | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR ANIMAL PROTECTION | $25,000 |
| SCRITCH KITTENS | $25,000 |
| EVERY PET'S DREAM | $25,000 |
| PHYSICIANS COMMITTEE FOR RESPONSIBLE MEDICINE | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ANIMAL PLACE | $15,000 |
| SECOND CHANCE RESCUE NYC | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND | $10,000 |
| QUEST VALLEY CHARITIES | $10,000 |
| LOVE LEO RESCUE | $10,000 |
| AT-CHOO FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $100k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Kieve Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 91% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 89% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against -6% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BFBalooja's Foundation Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $210k · revenue +26% · 29% of their budget
- SSSYMPHONY SAN JOSE7× · 2017–2025 · $165k · revenue +19%
- APAnimal Place6× · 2020–2025 · $85k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- AVALMADEN VALLEY WOMANS CLUBone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -94%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $10k
- QVQUEST VALLEY CHARITIES QVCone grant, 2022 · $10k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
It is Spark Rescue's mission to rescue, rehabilitate, medically treat, spay and neuter unwanted dogs and cats and place them into permanent homes. To prevent future un wanted litters we spay the mother of the litter being surrendered. We…
Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
C.A.R.E.S.MISSION STATEMENT*Rescue, foster and find good homes for abandoned and homeless domestic and farm animals.*Spay/neuter abandoned and homeless cats and dogs, as well as help low income families with same.*Conduct TNR+ programs to…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Our mission is to save dogs in distressing conditions on both sides of the California/Mexican border. We provide them with essential medical treatment and care to help them regain their health, and ultimately match them with loving homes…
The Santa Cruz SPCA provides safe harbor for animals in need and promotes an active humane community through adoption, advocacy, and education.
To end the euthanasia of adoptable dogs in the united states through increasing public awareness, taking legal action that will benefit shelter animals, prompting low cost spay/neuter programs and by rescuing dogs scheduled for euthenasia…
The mission of pets in need is to provide animals with loving care and lasting homes, to partner with communities striving to do the same, and to advance our no-kill legacy.
A purposeful rescue is a 501c3 non-profit that saves dogs from high-kill los angeles area shelters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation and the most unlike its peers is California Trolley & Railroad Corporation. 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
53 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. 53 of the 104 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Balooja's Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERY PETS DREAM ↗
- Who funds SYMPHONY SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE LIGHT TOWER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds DREAM FETCHERS ↗
- Who funds Soi Dog Foundation USA ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Animal Place ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Rotary Club of San Jose Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds Stroke Awareness Foundation ↗
- Who funds Physicians Committee for Responsible Med ↗
- Who funds OPERA SAN JOSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LOVELEO RESCUE ↗
- Who funds HISTORY SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds ALMADEN VALLEY WOMANS CLUB ↗
- Who funds Animal Pad ↗
- Who funds AT-CHOO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HUNGER AT HOME ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · The Brandenburg Family Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Agilent Technologies 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 Kieve 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.
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.