California · Private foundation
Severns 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.
- $720k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 24
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Severns Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 23 | $720k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $730k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $795k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $680k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $815k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $850k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 24 | $840k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $778k | 19% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Humane Society Silicon Valley | $730,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Reading Partners | $685,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $680,000 | 8 | 0% |
| 826 Valencia | $630,000 | 9 | 3% |
| Beneficent Technology Inc | $520,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Sunnyvale Community Services | $395,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Computer History Museum | $325,000 | 5 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $165,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Care Humane Society | $130,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Shakespeare's Associates Inc | $120,000 | 7 | 7% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Severns Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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 · The Grove Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Severns Family Foundation
- How much does Severns Family Foundation give?
- Severns Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $720,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 24 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Severns Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Animals (13%), Food & Nutrition (10%).
- Who are Severns Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Humane Society Silicon Valley ($730k), Reading Partners ($685k), Teach for America Inc ($680k).
- Does Severns Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Severns Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Severns Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Grove Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Where is Severns Family Foundation based?
- Severns Family Foundation is based in CA.
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