· Community foundation
Marin Community Foundation
Mobilizing the power of community and the resources of philanthropy to advance equity for people, places and the planet.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k159 grants · $1.1M
- $10k–50k815 grants · $16M
- $50k–250k452 grants · $46M
- $250k+147 grants · $123M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DAGMAR DOLBY FUND | $10,000,000 |
| NATURE CONSERVANCY INC | $4,437,166 |
| 10000 DEGREES | $4,403,422 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION | $3,393,185 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERS | $3,352,200 |
| THE WEST MARIN FUND | $3,348,254 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $3,110,500 |
| EQUATION CAMPAIGN AND GLOBAL CLIMATE LEGAL DEFENSE | $2,780,085 |
| AMERICAN PRAIRIE | $2,730,000 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $2,682,700 |
| POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE ASSOCIATION | $2,535,647 |
| THE CONSERVATION FUND | $2,072,000 |
| SAVE THE REDWOODS LEAGUE | $2,068,500 |
| THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES | $2,047,500 |
| ENRICHING LIVES THROUGH MUSIC | $1,999,150 |
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 (FY17–25, $31.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 55% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
Grants abroad, by region: $54M on the FY2025 return
Schedule F, as filed: 5 regions. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT · SUPPORT PUNTA DE LOBOS PARK PROGRAMS · PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE DEFENSE OF THE SEA IN THE MAGALLANES REGION
Stated purpose: PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT · PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR PROJECTS IN ITALY · SUPPORT FOR THE SOLAR GEOENGINEERING NON-USE AGREEMENT INITIATIVE
Stated purpose: PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT · SUPPORT THE ESCUELA DE AGRICULTURA ECOLGICA U YITS KA'AN · SUPPORT THE LIVING DYING PROJECT
Stated purpose: PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR THE PROTECT OUR OCEANS CAMPAIGN TO INCREASE SANCTUARY AND MARINE PARK PROTECTION IN AUSTRALIA'S WATERS · PROVIDE GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT · SUPPORT FOR ESTABLISHMENT OF AN INDO-PACIFIC BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN PROTECTED AREA IN JEJU, SOUTH KOREA
Stated purpose: SUPPORT RESEARCH STUDY ASSESSING THE LEVEL AND QUALITY OF EVALUATION DATA USAGE ON POVERTY REDUCTION PROGRAMMES
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 +33% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
1540 repeat relationships: 1045 still active in FY2025, 495 since wound down; 150 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TATHE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE INC3× · 2018–2024 · $24M · revenue ×31 · 65% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $22M · revenue +189%
- 1D10000 DEGREES9× · 2017–2025 · $21M · revenue +175%
Funded once
- F5FIRST 5 SANTA CLARAone grant, 2024 · $2.5M
- TSTOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $1.4M · revenue +70%
- TPThe Peoples Land Fundone grant, 2023 · $1.0M · revenue -64%
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.
the organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the UCSF Foundation.
California forward (ca fwd) brings people together across regions to improve government and create resilient growth statewide.
The California Water Data Consortium is an independent, nonprofit organization created by a partnership of state agencies and others to ensure that Californians have access to the best possible water and ecological information to make…
California Coastkeeper Alliance coordinates, supports & enhances the work of the local California Waterkeeper programs to provide a statewide voice for safeguarding California's waters, and its world renowned coast & ocean, for the benefit…
California changelawyers is a statewide foundation whose mission is to build a better justice system for all californians. changelawyers empowers the next generation of lawyers, judges, and activists to create a more diverse legal…
California Competes: Higher Education for a Strong Economy is a nonpartisan policy and research organization focused on identifying solutions to the states most critical challenges at the intersection of higher education, equity, and the…
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory uses science to conserve birds and habitats. Our avian monitoring and habitat restoration activities provide critical data that we use to educate land managers and the public, and contribute to…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
Support the launch of excellent new schools and innovative practices that improve education.
The Sierra Fund mission is to restore ecosystem and community resiliency in the Sierra Nevada. We rely on the principles of science, stewardship, environmental justice, and policy advocacy to promote headwater resiliency for the…
Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.
We work collaboratively to build open tools and resources for the evaluation and deployment of robust climate programs. We share analyses through public communication and collaboration with journalists in order to foster effective climate…
How this is measured
1858 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. 1858 of the 2,000 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 DAYTON FOUNDATION PLUS INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FRIENDS OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds Purdue Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds DAGMAR DOLBY FUND ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE WEST MARIN FUND ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA JAZZ CONSERVATORY INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Enriching Lives Through Music ↗
- Who funds MAKING WAVES ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Haight Street Art Center ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
- Who funds DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AIM HIGH FOR HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MARIN SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds THE KING'S TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds JAPANESE CULTURAL AND COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA 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: Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund · McNabb Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Tipping Point Community · The Springcreek Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Morris Stulsaft Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Marin Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Marin Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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