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Quentin and Mara Kopp Foundation at a glance

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Quentin and Mara Kopp Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$2k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$8kRecreation & Sports$3kEducation$1kArts & Culture$900Health$900Religion$900Human Services$768Civil Rights$700Other$0
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$413
Median grant
1
States reached
$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB$1,500
GRAND NATIONAL JR LIVESTOCK SHOW$413
SAINT PETERS AND PAUL CHURCH$200
SAN FRANCISCO HIGH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS$200
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $100) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SELF HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $100 → 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.
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.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9k · 5 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
38

Total granted

$9k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-46%
+27%

Still filing today

60%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $813 went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterInternationalOther
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

  • SB
    SALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB
    7× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue -46%
  • 2G
    2022 GRAND NATIONAL JR LIVESTOCK SHOW
    2× · 2022–2023 · $988
  • PF
    PATHWAYS FOR KIDS CO PETER DWARES
    3× · 2018–2023 · $850 · revenue -51%

Funded once

  • CF
    CALIFORNIA FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION
    one grant, 2017 · $700
  • NC
    NORTHERN CALIFORNIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAMEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $550 · revenue +36%
  • JS
    JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
    one grant, 2017 · $500
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
San Diego Jewish Academy

San Diego Jewish Academy empowers each student to learn for life, guided by Jewish values and rooted in strength of community.

Education
2
University of Southern California Hillel Foundation

To create an informed, celebratory and satisfying jewish community for students at the university of southern california, to deepen jewish identity through social, intellectual and spiritual participation, to offer diversified…

—
3
Sandler Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable, educational or religious purposes by conducting or supporting activities for the benefit of, or to carry out the purposes of the jewish community federation of san francisco, the…

Philanthropy
4
American Friends of Hebrew University Inc

Support the hebrew univ. of jerusalem, israel's foremost center of higher edu. & research.

International
5
University of California Student Association

The University of California Student Association (UCSA) is a coalition of students and student governments that aims to provide a collective voice for all students through advocacy and direct action. UCSA participates in the shared…

Education
6
Jewish Federation of San Diego County

Jewish federation of san diego county is dedicated to building a vibrant, caring, connected, and enduring jewish community.

—
7
Ucla Foundation

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…

Education
8
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
9
Jewish Federation Council of Greater La

Based on jewish values, the jewish federation of greater los angeles convenes and leads the community and leverages its resources to assure the continuity of the jewish people, support a secure state of israel, care for jews in need here…

Philanthropy
10
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

—
11
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.

—
12
San Francisco University High School

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Jewish Home and Senior Living Foundation; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco High School of the Arts. 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

22 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. 22 of the 46 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
12/22
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

2022 GRAND NATIONAL JR LIVESTOCK SHOW: $988 · Other2022 GRAND NATIONAL JR LIVESTOCK SHOWCALIFORNIA FIRST AMENDMENT COALITION: $700 · OtherCALIFORNIA FIRST AMENDMENT COALITIONJEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME NORTHERN CALIFORNIA: $500 · OtherJEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME NORTHERN CALIFORNIATHE SALVATION ARMY - GOLDEN STATE DIVISION: $500 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY - GOLDEN STATE DIVISIONJEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $500 · OtherJEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAMEJDRF DIABETES FOUNDATION: $500 · OtherJDRF DIABETES FOUNDATIONHEBREW UNION COLLEGE - JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGION: $500 · OtherHEBREW UNION COLLEGE - JEWISH INSTITUTE OF RELIGIO…GRAND NATIONAL JR LIVESTOCK SHOW: $413 · OtherCALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $350 · OtherREPUBLICAN WOMEN OF SAN FRANCISCO FEDERATION: $300 · Other+23 more: $2,553 · Other+23 moreSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $6,500 · Youth DevelopmentSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBPATHWAYS FOR KIDS CO PETER DWARES: $850 · Youth DevelopmentPATHWAYS FOR KIDS CO PETER DWARESNORTHERN CALIFORNIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $550 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO PERFORMING ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $125 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $75 · Arts & CultureSan Francisco High School of the Arts: $200 · EducationAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $180 · Education10000 DEGREES: $100 · EducationUniversity of San Francisco: $100 · EducationBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200 · HealthThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA: $150 · AnimalsSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $100 · Human Services
Other$7,804Youth Development$7,350Arts & Culture$1,250Education$580Health$200Animals$150Human Services$100

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSALESIAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB: $6,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPATHWAYS FOR KIDS CO PETER DWARES: $850 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN CALIFORNIA JEWISH SPORTS HALL OF FAME: $550 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALIFORNIA STATE LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICANS FOR BEN-GURION UNIVERSITY INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Placer County Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals SPCA: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget10000 DEGREES: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetORT AMERICA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OLYMPIC CLUB: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JEWISH HOME AND SENIOR LIVING FOUNDATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARINES' MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO HILLEL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISRAEL EMERGENCY ALLIANCE: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of San Francisco: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Council of Jewish Women Inc San Francisco Section: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVeterans of Foreign Wars of The United States: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY FOR YAD VASHEM INC: $75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Legion: $25 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.

Jewish Community Fede…The San Francisco Fou…Koret FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…American Endowment Fo…The Blackbaud Giving …The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…
Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA16.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Koret Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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 Quentin and Mara Kopp Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quentin and Mara Kopp Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
    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 46 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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