How much does Silicon Valley Creates give?

Silicon Valley Creates reported 52 itemized grants totaling $730,974, out of $1,077,822 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Silicon Valley Creates fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (93%), Human Services (3%), Education (1%).

Who are Silicon Valley Creates's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: School of Arts and Culture at Mhp ($328k), Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose Incorporated ($196k), Teatro Vision ($165k).

Does Silicon Valley Creates fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Which funders back the same organizations as Silicon Valley Creates?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Applied Materials Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

Where is Silicon Valley Creates based?

Silicon Valley Creates is based in CA.

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California · Public charity

Silicon Valley Creates

SILICON VALLEY CREATES' mission is to elevate silicon valley's creative culture through programs and initiatives that build the capacity of our arts and culture ecosystem, raise the voice and visibility of our creative sector, and increase access to arts.

$1.1M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 52
Itemized grants FY2025: 22
Organizations funded FY2024: 41%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Itemized, FY2025: $731k; The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2025: $8,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $105,893
Organizations funded a year: 22 to 55; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 1
Total assets, FY2025: $3.6M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 41% of the organizations Silicon Valley Creates funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $121k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementInternationalOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	52	$731k	15%
FY2024	22	$383k	41%
FY2023	55	$688k	15%
FY2022	54	$909k	19%
FY2021	47	$589k	15%
FY2020	43	$528k	26%
FY2019	36	$394k	31%
FY2018	38	$497k	45%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$4.7MHuman Services$160kEducation$48kPublic Benefit$45kYouth Development$45kCivil Rights$16kInternational$8kCommunity Improvement$7kOther$0

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
School of Arts and Culture at Mhp	$328,000	9	2%
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose Incorporated	$195,600	8	3%
Teatro Vision	$165,300	8	7%
Cashion Cultural Legacy	$156,000	8	12%
San Jose Taiko Group Inc	$152,700	9	5%
Local Color	$148,200	7	5%
San Jose Jazz	$131,500	8	2%
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art	$121,500	7	4%
City Lights Theater Co of San Jose Inc	$116,700	8	4%
College of Adaptive Arts	$110,950	7	2%

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All grantees of Silicon Valley Creates by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
School of Arts and Culture at Mhp	$328,000	9	2%
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose Incorporated	$195,600	8	3%
Teatro Vision	$165,300	8	7%
Cashion Cultural Legacy	$156,000	8	12%
San Jose Taiko Group Inc	$152,700	9	5%
Local Color	$148,200	7	5%
San Jose Jazz	$131,500	8	2%
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art	$121,500	7	4%
City Lights Theater Co of San Jose Inc	$116,700	8	4%
College of Adaptive Arts	$110,950	7	2%
Red Ladder Theatre Company	$110,000	5	5%
Palo Alto Players Peninsula Center Stage	$106,900	8	2%
Mosaic America	$103,200	8	4%
San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild Inc	$101,350	6	13%
Lc and Lillie Cox Haven of Hope	$100,000	1	7%
Silicon Valley African Film Festival	$98,000	5	21%
San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles	$94,300	6	5%
San Jose Stage Company	$91,000	8	3%
Triton Museum of Art	$80,700	8	3%
Abhinaya Dance Company of San Jose	$78,800	6	11%
Cinequest Inc	$76,000	6	2%
Peninsula Youth Theatre	$75,200	7	3%
Opera Cultura	$75,000	7	11%
Silicon Valley Shakespeare	$71,150	5	7%
Aimusic US	$67,500	6	4%
San Jose Chamber Orchestra	$66,600	5	4%
San Jose Center for Poetry and Literature	$66,500	4	34%
Chinese Performing Arts of America	$65,600	6	4%
Vivace Youth Chorus of San Jose	$62,450	7	6%
Golden State Youth Orchestra Association	$61,500	7	1%
San Jose Museum of Art Association	$60,000	4	0%
Chamber Music Silicon Valley	$58,500	5	29%
Chopsticks Alley Art	$56,000	4	10%
Starting Arts Inc	$54,500	6	1%
Bus Barn Stage Company	$53,950	6	6%
Los Gatos Museum Association	$53,500	4	3%
Arts Council Santa Cruz County	$50,000	1	2%
San Jose Youth Symphony	$48,530	6	1%
Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley	$46,450	7	1%
Tabard Theatre Company The	$45,800	4	4%
Audacity Performing Arts Project Inc	$44,000	4	5%
Kaisahan of San Jose	$37,500	4	10%
San Jose Chamber Orchestra	$36,300	3	n/a
Palo Alto Art Center Foundation	$35,000	3	1%
San Jose Community Media Access Corporation	$35,000	2	1%
New Ballet School Downtown San Jose Inc	$34,000	4	1%
Contemporary Asian Theatre Scene Inc	$32,500	3	17%
South Bay Musical Theatre	$32,450	4	6%
Works San Jose	$30,000	4	32%
Playful People Productions	$28,000	4	2%
West Bay Opera Association Inc	$27,400	4	3%
Palo Alto Chamber Orchestra	$26,750	4	2%
Pacific Art League	$26,650	3	1%
6th Street Studios and Art Center	$26,650	3	6%
Palo Alto Library	$25,700	3	n/a
San Jose Childrens Musical Theater	$25,250	2	0%
Alliance for Youth Achievement	$25,000	4	n/a
The Bay Area Glass Institute Inc	$24,000	3	1%
Teatro Nahual	$23,000	3	n/a
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College	$22,731	1	0%
Peninsula Womens Chorus	$22,700	2	n/a
The Pear Avenue Theatre	$21,520	3	3%
Cambodian American Resource Agency	$20,000	1	n/a
Arthouse Studio Inc	$20,000	1	5%
San Jose Choral Project	$20,000	2	8%
Santa Clara Chorale Inc	$17,700	2	7%
Silicon Valley Gay Mens Chorus	$17,500	3	9%
Luna Park Arts Foundation	$16,200	2	n/a
Ising Silicon Valley	$16,000	2	1%
Gay Pride Celebration Committee of San Jose	$16,000	2	2%
Peninsula Symphony Assoc Dba Peninsula Symphony Assoc of Northern California	$15,250	2	2%
African American Community Service Agency	$15,000	1	1%
Awo	$15,000	1	8%
Community Agency for Resources Advocacy & Services	$15,000	1	1%
San Jose Downtown Foundation	$14,700	2	28%
Steinway Society - the Bay Area	$14,150	1	6%
Manos Inc	$12,000	1	n/a
The Schola Cantorum	$11,000	2	n/a
Nova Vista Symphony Association Inc	$10,800	1	n/a
American Youth Shakespeare	$10,800	1	n/a
San Jose Children's Discovery Museum	$10,000	1	0%
Balance & Contrast (Powwow San Jose)	$10,000	1	n/a
San Jose Dance Theatre	$10,000	2	1%
Arte Aguero Llcpilar Aguero-Esparza	$10,000	1	n/a
Community School of Music and Arts	$10,000	1	0%
Lead Filipino	$10,000	1	2%
Bach-Millennium Music	$9,500	1	12%
Gallery 1202	$9,150	1	n/a
San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art	$9,000	1	n/a
Sjdanceco	$8,300	1	5%
1202 Contemporary	$7,700	1	n/a
Cupertino-Toyokawa Sister Cities Inc	$7,650	1	24%
Positive Alternative Recreation Teambuilding Impacting Program	$7,500	1	1%
Poppy Jasper Inc	$7,500	1	8%
EnActe Arts Inc	$7,500	1	2%
Art Docents of Los Gatos Inc	$7,200	1	n/a
San Jose Chamber Music Society	$7,000	1	n/a
Winchester Orchestra of San Jose	$6,200	1	n/a
Northside Theatre Council of San Jose	$6,200	1	6%
Art Forum	$6,000	1	4%
Japanese American Museum of San Jose	$6,000	1	n/a
Intersection for the Arts	$6,000	1	0%
Abhinaya Dance Company	$5,300	1	n/a
South Bay Guitar Society of San Jose	$5,200	1	9%
Center for Training & Careers Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Lordcowboy Artworks Llcanna Fusco	$5,000	1	n/a
Mozeart Designz Llcchristopher Mosley	$5,000	1	n/a
Santa Clara Valley Fiddlers Association	$5,000	1	n/a
Title 8 Productions LLC	$5,000	1	n/a

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($111k), not named here.

Silicon Valley Creates supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 84 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 84.

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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.

The Applied Materials FoundationCA66.1× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Applied Materials Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · Valley Health Foundation (Vhf) · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Castellano Family Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation

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.

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About Silicon Valley Creates

How much does Silicon Valley Creates give?: Silicon Valley Creates reported 52 itemized grants totaling $730,974, out of $1,077,822 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Silicon Valley Creates fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (93%), Human Services (3%), Education (1%).
Who are Silicon Valley Creates's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: School of Arts and Culture at Mhp ($328k), Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose Incorporated ($196k), Teatro Vision ($165k).
Does Silicon Valley Creates fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 41% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as Silicon Valley Creates?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Applied Materials Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Silicon Valley Creates based?: Silicon Valley Creates is based in CA.