· Private foundation
Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $53,400 |
| NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION | $35,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO OPERA | $30,000 |
| SF MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $20,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO FILM SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | $9,520 |
| CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS | $7,198 |
| SWORDS TO PLOWSHARES | $5,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY | $5,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| FONDAZIONE ITALIA | $2,884 |
| VOW FOR GIRLS | $2,000 |
| SAINT IGNATIUS COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% 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.
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 +20% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 5 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2025 · $206k · revenue +47%- SFSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART8× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +37%
- TCTRINITY COLLEGE3× · 2017–2020 · $120k · revenue +96%
Funded once
- SFSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNone grant, 2023 · $43k
- CPCROWN PRINCE EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $17k
PUBLIC COUNSELone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -8%
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 organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…
To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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…
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 san francisco conservatory of music (sfcm) educates exceptionally talented musicians from around the world to become artists of the highest caliber, as well as musical citizens prepared for the challenges of the twenty-first century.
Raise private resources to advance the mission and priorities of the university and serve as ambassadors in the community. provide stewardship in the prudent investment of resources and ensure the integrity of the foundation through…
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 bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
The asian art museum celebrates, preserves, and promotes asian and asian american art and cultures for local and global audiences. we provide a dynamic forum for exchanging ideas, inviting collaboration, and fueling imagination to deepen…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of San Francisco and the most unlike its peers is Enterprise High Sch Music Booster. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 50 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 61 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FIRE MUSEUM OF MARYLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NAPA VALLEY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COLLEGE OF THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FREE CLINIC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC COUNSEL ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Film Society ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 42ND STREET MOON ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF ALAMEDA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds John Burton Advocates for Youth ↗
- Who funds University of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE HIGH SCH MUSIC BOOSTER ↗
- Who funds FONDAZIONE ITALIA ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The US Charitable Gift Trust · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 Paul & Nancy Pelosi Charitable 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.
- Fairfield University — 1% 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.