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Payne Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$83k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

83% of Payne Family Foundation’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Tides Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 12 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Payne Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 14 organizations, $83k. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

10
’17
12
’18
17
’19
21
’20
19
’21
9
’22
13
’23
14
’24
12
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$219kEducation$147kHealth$136kYouth Development$71kEnvironment$25kRecreation & Sports$15kScience & Tech$10kArts & Culture$7kOther$0
02FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $63k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$3,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$855k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE$10,030
HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION$10,000
HARVARD COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP$9,888
AMERICAN TECHION SOCIETY$5,015
UCSF EXEC HEALTH PROGRAM$5,015
Individual grant recipient$5,000
CPMC FOUNDATION$5,000
ICU BABY$5,000
BETA PHI EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$5,000
MAYO CLINIC$5,000
MD ANDERSON CENTER$3,000
EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREP SCHOOL$2,000
ALL MAY SEE FOUNDATION$2,000
MINDFUL LIFE PROJECT$2,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $10k → 17%Healthnetwork Foundation: $5k → 17%Health Network Foundation: $5k → 17%HEALTH NETWORK FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%Children's Council of San Francisco: $3k → 10%Children's Council of San Francisco: $1k → 10%Children's Council of San Francisco: $750 → 10%Children's Council of San Francisco: $500 → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MN
IL
MA
WY
IA
OH
CA
WV
VA
AZ
MS
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$308k · 36 repeat orgs$124k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
35

Total granted

$308k
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-11%
+59%

Still filing today

67%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $25k · revenue +73%
  • ST
    SHINE TOGETHER INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $23k · revenue +25%
  • CP
    CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • CA
    CLIMATE ACTION CAMPAIGN
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +11%
  • SC
    Sustainable Conservationgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +69%
  • BS
    Big Sisters Big Brothers of the Bay
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
2
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
3
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
4
The San Francisco School

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.

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5
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

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6
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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7
San Francisco Friends School

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…

Education
8
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
9
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

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…

Education
10
Marin Academy

Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.

Education
11
Santa Barbara Education Foundation

Santa Barbara Education Foundation (SBEF) provides and supports programs that enrich the academic, artistic, and personal development of all students in the Santa Barbara Unified School District.

Education
12
The College Preparatory School

At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Basic Fund; the most unlike its peers is The Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 82 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
32/53
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES FOUNDATION: $200,670 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,944 · PhilanthropyEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION+2 more: $4,500 · PhilanthropyICA Cristo Ray Academy: $28,000 · OtherICA Cristo Ray AcademyIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUCSF EXEC HEALTH PROGRAM: $10,062 · OtherUCSF EXEC HEALTH PROGRAMAMERICAN TECHION SOCIETY: $10,051 · OtherAMERICAN TECHION SOCIETYHARVARD COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIP: $9,888 · OtherHARVARD COLLEGE SCHOLARSHIPBreakthrough San Francisco: $7,050 · OtherIGNATIAN CORPORATION SAINT IGNATIUS HIGH SCHOOL: $7,000 · OtherSustainable Conservation: $9,663 · OtherSustainable Conservation+35 more: $75,595 · Other+35 morePOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $19,580 · EducationPOSITIVE COACH…Beta Phi Educational Foundation: $16,000 · EducationBeta Phi Educa…SAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO …Techbridge Girls: $7,000 · EducationTechbridge Gir…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $6,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF T…UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $6,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY HIG…EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $6,000 · EducationEASTSIDE COLLE…SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO …OAKLAND PROMISE: $3,125 · EducationTHE BASIC FUND: $3,000 · Education+2 more: $3,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,500 · HealthCALIFORNIA PA…ICU Baby Inc: $15,500 · HealthICU Baby IncMICHAEL HARRIS FOUNDATION: $13,500 · HealthMICHAEL HARRI…That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation: $6,000 · HealthThat Man May …St John's Health Foundation: $5,000 · HealthSt John's Hea…International OCD Foundation Inc: $5,000 · HealthInternational…BREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $5,000 · HealthBREAST CANCER…MAYO CLINIC: $5,000 · HealthMAYO CLINIC+4 more: $4,000 · HealthSHINE TOGETHER INC: $22,500 · Youth DevelopmentSHINE TOG…Mindful Life Project: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentMindful L…ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $9,500 · Youth DevelopmentENTERPRIS…SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $5,250 · Youth DevelopmentSALESIAN …PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentPLAYWORKS…COLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentCOLLABORA…+2 more: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesChildren's Council of San Francisco: $4,750 · Human ServicesCLIMATE ACTION CAMPAIGN: $15,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Philanthropy$221,114Other$174,309Education$84,705Health$79,500Youth Development$55,250Human Services$29,750Public Safety & Disaster$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEALTHNETWORK FOUNDATION FKA HEALTH NET FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC: $22,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION: $20,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPOSITIVE COACHING ALLIANCE: $19,580 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBeta Phi Educational Foundation: $16,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetEAST BAY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $15,944 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetICU Baby Inc: $15,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCLIMATE ACTION CAMPAIGN: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMICHAEL HARRIS FOUNDATION: $13,500 over 6y, 33% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO DAY SCHOOL: $10,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMindful Life Project: $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSustainable Conservation: $9,663 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH: $9,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTechbridge Girls: $7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation: $6,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $5,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCAL BASEBALL FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetInternational OCD Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER PREVENTION PARTNERS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAYO CLINIC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Council of San Francisco: $4,750 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOAKLAND PROMISE: $3,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOACHING CORPS: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE FOR ACADEMIC SOCIAL AND EMOTIONAL LEARNING: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BASIC FUND: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FIRST TEE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLAREMATRIX: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEHOPE: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPartnership for Children & Youth: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSEVEN TEPEES YOUTH PROGRAM: $1,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Stone Research Foundation for Sports Medicine and Arthritis: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BORDERS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSilicon Valley Urban Debate League: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE SCIENCE FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Marin Community Found…Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…East Bay Community Fo…Golden State Communit…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Quest FoundationGordon E and Betty I …Crescent Porter Hale …American Endowment Fo…The Stanley S Langend…
The San Francisco FoundationCA39.9× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · Golden State Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Quest Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Crescent Porter Hale Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Payne Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Payne Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Icu Baby Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 82 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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