· Private foundation
Saw Island Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
Read this first · the figures below need context
78% of Saw Island Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Board Of Trustees Of The Leland Stanford Junior University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 13 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $93k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $220k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.3M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY | $1,250,960 |
| THE SAILING MUSEUM | $120,000 |
| HOOVER INSTITUTION | $100,000 |
| RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS | $25,000 |
| SPORTS CHALLENGE | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN THEATRE WING | $12,500 |
| CALMATTERS | $10,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $10,000 |
| VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MANGAWHAI EDUCATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| THE WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| CASTILLEJA SCHOOL | $2,500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
19 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- RBRAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +80%
- ATAMERICAN THEATRE WING INC5× · 2021–2025 · $63k · revenue +14%
- VVVIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION5× · 2021–2025 · $25k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $5k
- NFNCGA FOUNDATION (YOUTH ON COURSE)one grant, 2023 · $3k
- VDVERBUM DEI HIGH SCHOOL LASATER SCHOLARSHIP FUone grant, 2021 · $1k
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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See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Menlo School and the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Opera Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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
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 THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SPORTS CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds RAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN THEATRE WING INC ↗
- Who funds VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds CalMatters ↗
- Who funds SUTTER BAY MEDICAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds MENLO SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MICHAEL HARRIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUMBOLDT AREA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHELTER TRANSPORT ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Saw Island Foundation Inc 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.
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.