· Private foundation
Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 57% of Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim Family Foundation’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k131 grants · $103k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Jewish Film Institute | $40,000 |
| Congregation Emanu El | $15,019 |
| Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep | $5,000 |
| Hair To Stay | $5,000 |
| Fine Arts Museums of SF | $4,000 |
| Jewish Community Relations Council | $3,000 |
| SF Museum Of Modern Art | $3,000 |
| Anti-Defamation League | $3,000 |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $2,350 |
| Planned Parenthood | $2,100 |
| NARAL | $2,000 |
| KQED | $2,000 |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $2,000 |
| Jewish Family and Children's Servic | $2,000 |
| Chabad of the Neighborhood | $1,800 |
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 (FY17–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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.
237 repeat relationships — 111 still active in FY2025, 126 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- HHAIRTOSTAY9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +163%
- CMCarnegie Mellon University9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +15%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART9× · 2017–2025 · $43k · revenue +37%
Funded once
- BMBrandeis Marinone grant, 2022 · $3k
- AABRAone grant, 2022 · $2k
- UBUCSF Buck Breast Cancer Centerone grant, 2019 · $2k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and the most unlike its peers is Beyond Differences. 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 33 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
213 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. 213 of the 373 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 Jewish Film Institute ↗
- Who funds HAIRTOSTAY ↗
- Who funds Carnegie Mellon University ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO JAZZ ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONTEMPORARY JEWISH MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY RELATIONS COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO MARIN & PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds UPSTART BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds BIMBAM ↗
- Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds BRANDEIS SCHOOL OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds HIAS INC ↗
- Who funds HEBREW FREE LOAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds TAHOE TRUCKEE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds The Petey Greene Program Inc ↗
- Who funds LAKE TAHOE SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
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 · The San Francisco Foundation · Koret Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · McNabb Foundation · John Pritzker Family Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Jewish Community Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Swig 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 Ralph & Marsha Guggenheim 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.
- Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
- The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Griffin Museum of Photography Inc — 5% of income from government
- Bakehouse Art Complex Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Keshet Inc — 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.