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Salesforce 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
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+21 grants · $36M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $7,338,600 |
| OAKLAND UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT | $5,000,000 |
| SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $5,000,000 |
| CODEORG | $2,000,000 |
| CAREERVILLAGE INC | $1,000,000 |
| INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL | $1,000,000 |
| BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC | $1,000,000 |
| KHAN ACADEMY INC | $1,000,000 |
| CHILDREN FIRST FUND - THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| TNTP INC (THE NEW TEACHER PROJECT) | $1,000,000 |
| ONEGOAL | $1,000,000 |
| HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT | $1,000,000 |
| THE EDUCATION TRUST INC | $1,000,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $3.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
194 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 179 since wound down; 6 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M 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
- IPINDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $4.4M · revenue +135%
- TFTHE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $4.3M · revenue +32%
- CCODEORG2× · 2020–2025 · $2.0M · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TCTIDES CENTER (PROJECT NAME NEXT CHAPTER)one grant, 2023 · $2.5M
- FFFWDone grant, 2024 · $1.5M · revenue 0%
- JFJOBS FOR THE FUTURE INCone grant, 2024 · $1.0M · revenue 0%
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…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Our mission is to invest in and accelerate the development of the most promising future leaders in biomedical research with global impact.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Thacher & Straitsmouth Islands Association. 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 30 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 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
1458 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. 1458 of the 2,000 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 TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds INDIANAPOLIS PUBLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN FIRST FUND THE CHICAGO PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds YEAR UP INC ↗
- Who funds BEYOND 12 EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds CODEORG ↗
- Who funds TNTP INC ↗
- Who funds FFWD ↗
- Who funds The Education Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
- Who funds BRAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds PER SCHOLAS INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds IMENTOR INC ↗
- Who funds Larkin Street Youth Services ↗
- Who funds KHAN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds DIGITAL PROMISE GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE POSSIBLE INC ↗
- Who funds BURNING GLASS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMORG ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN AI FORUM ↗
- Who funds CAREERVILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON PRIVATE INDUSTRY COUNCIL INC THE ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds 3DE NATIONAL LLC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds NAMI National ↗
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: Nicholas H Noyes Jr Memorial Foundation · Richard M Fairbanks Foundation Inc · McNabb Foundation · Golden State Community Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The Stanley S Langendorf Foundation · Maurer Family Foundation Inc · Crankstart Foundation · The William G Gilmore Foundation · United Way of Central Indiana 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 Salesforce 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.
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- Blueprint Schools Network Inc — 10% of income from government
- United Way of Hunterdon County — 10% of income from government
- Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.
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