· Private foundation
Mitchell Kapor Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $482k
- $50k–250k24 grants · $2.6M
- $250k+8 grants · $3.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $1,050,000 |
| CODE FOR SCIENCE AND SOCIETY INC | $500,000 |
| NEW VENTURE FUND | $350,000 |
| SMASH (LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE) | $340,000 |
| OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $277,839 |
| TECH EQUITY COLLABORATIVE | $250,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY | $250,000 |
| EAST OAKLAND YOUTH DEVELOPMENT CENTER | $200,000 |
| FOOTSTEPS INC | $200,000 |
| GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC | $175,000 |
| DETROIT FUTURE CITY | $150,000 |
| IMPACTASSETS | $150,000 |
| FREE PRESS INC (DISINFO DEFENSE LEAGUE) | $150,000 |
| AI FOR THE PEOPLE INC | $150,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $557k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% 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 5% of Mitchell Kapor 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, 41% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 39% — 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 +44% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 64 since wound down; 35 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.4M 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
THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION5× · 2019–2023 · $10M · revenue +48%- CFCODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +78%
- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGE2× · 2019–2020 · $2.0M · revenue +46%
Funded once
- UBUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $1.0M
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $850k
- SWSAY WHAT MEDIA LLCone grant, 2023 · $765k
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.
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,…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
Empowering college admission counseling professionals through education, advocacy, and community.
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Links Foundation Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Xr Safety Initiative. 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 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
311 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. 311 of the 449 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CODE FOR SCIENCE & SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IMPACTASSETSINC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TECHEQUITY COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law ↗
- Who funds FOOTSTEPS INC ↗
- Who funds STATE LEADERSHIP PROJECT ↗
- Who funds AI FOR THE PEOPLE INC ↗
- Who funds FREE PRESS ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds VOTO LATINO FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds National Coalition on Black Civic Partic ↗
- Who funds NPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds East Oakland Youth Development Center ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKINGS INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds CONSUMER REPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds AUBIN PICTURES 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: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Endowment · Tides Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Stupski Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · New Venture Fund
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 Mitchell Kapor 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Baltimore Corps Inc — 15% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Calvin Hill Day Care Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Code for Science & Society Inc — 2% of income from government
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.