· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 52 grants below total $730,974 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,077,822 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $346,848 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $218k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $407k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SANTA CLARA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION | $105,893 |
| SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP | $34,000 |
| LOCAL COLOR | $32,000 |
| MACLAMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICAN | $32,000 |
| RED LADDER THEATRE COMPANY | $30,000 |
| MOSAIC AMERICA | $28,000 |
| TEATRO VISION | $28,000 |
| CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY | $28,000 |
| POETRY CENTER SAN JOSE | $25,000 |
| PALO ALTO PLAYERS | $25,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY - DE SAISSET MUSEUM | $22,731 |
| SAN JOSE JAZZ | $20,000 |
| CREATV SAN JOSE | $20,000 |
| ARTHOUSE STUDIO | $20,000 |
| COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY AND SERVICES (CARAS) | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +0% for the ones you funded once.
69 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k 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
- SOSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP9× · 2017–2025 · $328k · revenue +165%
- TVTEATRO VISION8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +74%
- CCCASHION CULTURAL LEGACY8× · 2018–2025 · $156k · revenue +677%
Funded once
- LALC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPEone grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -31%
- ACARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTYone grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -15%
- CACAMBODIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE AGENCYone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
Community Music / Arts Organization
To champion the performing arts in Santa Rosa for all. To connect people with one another and with art that can enrich their lives. To embrace people from all backgrounds. To provide exceptional service to our resident companies and to…
Maintain chamber orchestra and operatic company for the presentation of symphonic music and opera
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
Stimulate and promote interest in ballet, provide high quality ballet performances at a reasonable cost to general public, while providing opportunities to local dancers, and enhancing cultural awareness and diversity in the South…
Educate chorus members and perform concerts
We are a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering the Asian American community in the Bay Area and beyond. We provide equitable access to our arts and cultural programs.
Oakland Ballet Company's mission is to inspire the community by keeping the tradition of ballet exciting, vibrant and accessible.
Take world-class symphonic music off the pedestal and into the heart of our community. San Francisco Philharmonic is an orchestral group dedicated to cultural enrichment, music education and creating a performance platform for women and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild Inc and the most unlike its peers is Awo. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 28 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
92 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. 92 of the 111 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 SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP ↗
- Who funds MOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TEATRO VISION ↗
- Who funds CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY ↗
- Who funds San Jose Taiko Group Inc ↗
- Who funds Local Color ↗
- Who funds San Jose Jazz ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART ↗
- Who funds CITY LIGHTS THEATER CO OF SAN JOSE INC ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF ADAPTIVE ARTS ↗
- Who funds RED LADDER THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds PALO ALTO PLAYERS PENINSULA CENTER STAGE ↗
- Who funds MOSAIC AMERICA ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE MULTICULTURAL ARTISTS GUILD INC ↗
- Who funds LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles ↗
- Who funds San Jose Stage Company ↗
- Who funds TRITON MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds ABHINAYA DANCE COMPANY OF SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds Cinequest Inc ↗
- Who funds Peninsula Youth Theatre ↗
- Who funds OPERA CULTURA ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE ↗
- Who funds Aimusic US ↗
- Who funds San Jose Chamber Orchestra ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE CENTER FOR POETRY AND LITERATURE ↗
- Who funds Chinese Performing Arts of America ↗
- Who funds VIVACE YOUTH CHORUS OF SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Chamber Music Silicon Valley ↗
- Who funds Chopsticks Alley Art ↗
- Who funds STARTING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Bus Barn Stage Company ↗
- Who funds LOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE YOUTH SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds Cantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley ↗
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: 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
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 Silicon Valley Creates 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.