· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $10,000 |
| CALMATTERS | $10,000 |
| THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $10,000 |
| MANGAWHAI EDUCATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| PALO ALTO MEDICAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VIDA VERDE NATURE EDUCATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| CASTILLEJA SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| THE WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- RBRAGAZZI BOYS CHORUS5× · 2021–2025 · $125k · revenue +100%
- 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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 30 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Saw Island Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Saw Island Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
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