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Oberndorf 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $355k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+13 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND | $7,508,000 |
| UCSF (CHANCELLOR CIRCLE CHALLENGE) | $5,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SF FOUNDATION (DEPARTMENT OF NEUROLOGY) | $1,700,000 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $1,000,000 |
| ENVIROMENTAL DEFENSE FUND | $1,000,000 |
| EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES | $1,000,000 |
| NEIGHBORS FOR A BETTER SAN FRANCISCO | $500,000 |
| ST BENEDICTS PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC | $500,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY (DEPT OF OTOLARYNGOLOGY ) | $500,000 |
| DISH SF (DELIVERING INNOVATION IN SUPPORTIVE HOUSING) | $250,000 |
| EDUCATION REFORM NOW | $250,000 |
| BALANCED BUDGET NOW | $250,000 |
| SAVE THE CHILDREN | $250,000 |
| SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $175,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY | $100,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $312k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
87 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 56 since wound down; 18 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.2M 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
- AFAMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC5× · 2021–2025 · $17M · revenue +3%
DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC3× · 2018–2024 · $5.3M · revenue +342% · 47% of their budget
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED2× · 2020–2022 · $2.6M · revenue +121%
Funded once
- USUNIVERSITY SCHOOL OBERNDORF MERIT SCHOLARSHIP)one grant, 2022 · $5.0M
- USUNIVERSITY SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $5.0M
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SF FOUNDATION - DEP OF PSYCHIATRYone grant, 2021 · $2.0M
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.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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…
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Drexel Fund. 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 34 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
119 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. 119 of the 250 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 AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN GROWTH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ↗
- Who funds DR HOWARD FULLER COLLEGIATE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds EDGEWOOD CENTER FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FEDERATION FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds DRAPER RICHARDS KAPLAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Neighbors for a Better San Francisco ↗
- Who funds CHRONICLE SEASON OF SHARING FUND ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLOUGHSHARES FUND 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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Rosenberg Ach Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · Crescent Porter Hale Foundation · Golden State Community 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 Oberndorf Family 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% 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.