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Sand Hill Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
99
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$5.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$10MEnvironment$6.2MEducation$4.9MYouth Development$2.1MHousing & Shelter$1.7MHuman Services$1.6MFood & Nutrition$1.4MCommunity Improvement$979kOther$0
02FY2024 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k24 grants · $93k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $817k
  • $50k–250k37 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+5 grants · $7.2M
$40,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH$5,000,000
BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY$1,000,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED$600,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC$300,000
ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED$250,000
FRIENDS FOR YOUTH INC$200,000
CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC$200,000
JEFFERSON UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT$200,000
LIFEMOVES$160,000
SAVE THE BAY$125,000
PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA$100,000
PUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR$85,000
LEGAL AID SOCIETY OF SAN MATEO COUNTY$75,000
PENINSULA CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER$75,000
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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%STARVISTA: $25k → 7%GREATER BAY AREA MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 10%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $60k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $50k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $30k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $10k → 10%YMCA OF SAN FRANCISCO: $60k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $8k → 10%PACIFICA RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 7%CLIMATE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES: $75k → 8%NUESTRA CASA DE EAST PALO ALTO: $50k → 8%NUESTRA CASA DE EAST PALO ALTO: $50k → 8%AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $40k → 7%AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $30k → 7%AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $27k → 7%COASTSIDE HOPE: $10k → 7%AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $500 → 7%STARVISTA: $50k → 7%STARVISTA: $50k → 7%STARVISTA: $50k → 7%AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $60k → 7%ABUNDANT GRACE COASTSIDE WORKER INC: $50k → 7%STARVISTA: $30k → 7%DALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATIVE: $200k → 7%DALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATIVE: $10k → 7%DALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATIVE: $9k → 7%ABUNDANT GRACE COASTSIDE WORKER INC: $10k → 7%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

MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
CA
DC
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of Sand Hill Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Sand Hill Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$28M · 102 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +45% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

102 repeat relationships: 68 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

102
59

Total granted

$28M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+45%
+24%

Still filing today

92%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentHealthEducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    5× · 2020–2024 · $5.8M · revenue +8%
  • ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.9M · revenue +121%
  • CH
    CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER SAN FRANCISCO
    one grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue -35%
  • SM
    SAN MATEO RESOURCE CONSERVATION DISTRICT
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • AL
    AYUDANDO LATINOS A SOAR
    one grant, 2023 · $80k
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
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
California Coastkeeper dba California Coastkeeper Alliance

California Coastkeeper Alliance unites Waterkeeper programs statewide to fight for swimmable, fishable, and drinkable waters for all Californians.

Environment
4
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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5
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
6
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
7
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
8
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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9
Parents for Public Schools of San Francisco

PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.

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10
California Donor Table

California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…

Civil Rights
11
Children's Council of San Francisco

By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…

Human Services
12
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Excellence in Nonprofits; the most unlike its peers is Project Safety Net. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

163 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. 163 of the 178 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
162/163
Grantees still filing
113/163
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $5,813,500 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CH…CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $2,008,000 · HealthCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC+17 more: $1,535,000 · Health+17 moreENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,850,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENS…PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $550,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA OPEN SPACE…Save The Bay: $340,000 · EnvironmentSave The BayDEPLOYUS INC: $300,000 · EnvironmentTen Strands: $275,000 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIER: $270,000 · EnvironmentVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION: $210,000 · EnvironmentCanopy: $200,000 · Environment+13 more: $927,400 · Environment+13 moreLIFEMOVES: $895,000 · OtherLIFEMOVESJEFFERSON UNION HIGH SCHOOL DISTRICT: $625,000 · OtherJEFFERSON UNION HIGH SCHOOL DIS…THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $457,500 · OtherSAN MATEO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $320,000 · OtherCURIODYSSEY: $325,000 · OtherMILL CREEK METROPARKS FOUNDATION: $650,000 · OtherMILL CREEK METROPARKS FOUNDATIO…Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center: $302,500 · Other+86 more: $5,471,890 · Other+86 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,265,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TR…Upward Scholars: $246,500 · EducationUpward ScholarsThe Peninsula College Fund: $180,200 · Education+19 more: $909,200 · Education+19 moreFRIENDS FOR YOUTH INC: $1,031,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $412,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS NORTH SAN MATEO COUNTY: $100,500 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE COASTSIDE: $70,000 · Youth Development+5 more: $69,100 · Youth DevelopmentPIE RANCH: $1,175,000 · EmploymentJOBTRAIN INC: $202,500 · EmploymentDALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATIVE: $218,500 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $210,000 · Human ServicesStarVista: $205,000 · Human ServicesALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $157,500 · Human ServicesNuestra Casa de East Palo Alto: $100,000 · Human ServicesClimate Resilient Communities: $75,000 · Human ServicesAbundant Grace Coastside Worker Inc: $60,000 · Human Services+5 more: $40,000 · Human Services
Health$9,356,500Environment$5,922,400Other$9,046,890Education$4,600,900Youth Development$1,683,100Employment$1,377,500Human Services$1,066,000

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 budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $5,813,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $3,265,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $2,850,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC: $2,008,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetPIE RANCH: $1,175,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetFRIENDS FOR YOUTH INC: $1,031,000 over 5y, 27% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $895,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $550,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $457,500 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $412,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Bay: $340,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetCURIODYSSEY: $325,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetRenaissance Entrepreneurship Center: $302,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetDEPLOYUS INC: $300,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER: $280,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTen Strands: $275,000 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetMULTIPLIER: $270,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $250,000 over 5y, 4.8% of budgetUpward Scholars: $246,500 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetKARA: $242,500 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetCOUNSELING AND SUPPORT SERVICES FOR YOUTH: $240,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetDALY CITY PENINSULA PARTNERSHIP COLLABORATIVE: $218,500 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County: $210,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION: $210,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $210,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetStarVista: $205,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetJOBTRAIN INC: $202,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCalifornia School-Age Consortium Inc: $200,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetPENINSULA CONFLICT RESOLUTION CENTER: $200,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetCanopy: $200,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetThe Peninsula College Fund: $180,200 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse: $180,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetPUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR: $180,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHuman Investment Project Inc: $170,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetACKNOWLEDGE ALLIANCE: $165,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetALAS AYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR: $157,500 over 3y, 14% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $152,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable San Mateo County: $150,400 over 3y, 42% of budgetSTRATEGIC ENERGY INNOVATIONS: $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEPACENTER: $140,000 over 5y, 7.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula: $138,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetRiekes Center for Human Enhancement: $136,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAC FKA COMMUNITY HEALTH AWARENESS COUNCIL: $132,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetSan Mateo County Health Foundation: $130,000 over 4y, 3.5% of budgetTHE JONSSON CANCER CENTER FOUNDATION: $127,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMarine Science Institute: $125,000 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetEAST PALO ALTO ACADEMY FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 4y, 2.2% 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.

Atkinson FoundationThe David and Lucile …The Sobrato Family Fo…The Palo Alto Communi…Gordon E and Betty I …Bothin FoundationSilicon Valley Commun…Philanthropic Venture…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The San Francisco Fou…The Grove FoundationSunlight Giving
Atkinson FoundationCA133.3× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atkinson Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Bothin Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The San Francisco Foundation · The Grove Foundation · Sunlight Giving

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 Sand Hill Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sand Hill Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    70report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    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.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Sand Hill Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Sand Hill Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

    Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

    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 178 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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