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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 FY2025still arriving
52
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$106k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2025 · 52 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 52 grants below total $730,974, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,077,822 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $346,848 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k33 grants · $218k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $407k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $106k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY$28,000
TEATRO VISION$28,000
MOSAIC AMERICA$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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $100k → 9%COMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY AND SERVICES (CARAS): $15k → 8%AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $15k → 8%WORKSSAN JOSE: $14k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.4M · 69 repeat orgs$620k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

69
34

Total granted

$4.4M
$432k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+0%

Still filing today

90%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $188k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsEducationOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SO
    SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP
    9× · 2017–2025 · $328k · revenue +165%
  • TV
    TEATRO VISION
    8× · 2018–2025 · $165k · revenue +74%
  • CC
    CASHION CULTURAL LEGACY
    8× · 2018–2025 · $156k · revenue +677%

Funded once

  • LA
    LC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k · revenue -31%
  • AC
    ARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue -15%
  • CA
    CAMBODIAN AMERICAN RESOURCE AGENCY
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Voices of Silicon Valley

Community Music / Arts Organization

Arts & Culture
2
The California Theatre of Santa Rosa

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Santa Clara Valley Performing Arts Association

Maintain chamber orchestra and operatic company for the presentation of symphonic music and opera

Arts & Culture
4
California Bach Society Inc

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…

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5
San Lorenzo Valley Mountain Community Theater
Arts & Culture
6
San Francisco Guzheng Music Society
Arts & Culture
7
Santa Clara Ballet Association

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…

Arts & Culture
8
San Francisco City Chorus Association

Educate chorus members and perform concerts

Philanthropy
9
Clarion Performing Arts Center

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.

Arts & Culture
10
Oakland Ballet Company

Oakland Ballet Company's mission is to inspire the community by keeping the tradition of ballet exciting, vibrant and accessible.

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Basque Folkloric Groups
Arts & Culture
12
San Francisco Philharmonic Orchestra

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Jose Multicultural Artists Guild Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

92 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. 92 of the 111 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
23
Early backer (in before they grew)
87/92
Grantees still filing
58/92
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP: $328,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHPMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED: $195,600 · Arts & CultureMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATE…TEATRO VISION: $165,300 · Arts & CultureCASHION CULTURAL LEGACY: $156,000 · Arts & CultureSan Jose Taiko Group Inc: $152,700 · Arts & CultureCITY LIGHTS THEATER CO OF SAN JOSE INC: $116,700 · Arts & CultureCOLLEGE OF ADAPTIVE ARTS: $110,950 · Arts & Culture+51 more: $1,883,900 · Arts & Culture+51 moreSan Jose Jazz: $131,500 · OtherSan Jose JazzSAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $121,500 · OtherSAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPO…PALO ALTO PLAYERS PENINSULA CENTER STAGE: $106,900 · OtherPALO ALTO PLAYERS PENINSULA CE…SANTA CLARA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $105,893 · OtherSANTA CLARA COUNTY OFFICE OF E…San Jose Stage Company: $91,000 · OtherSan Jose Stage CompanyCinequest Inc: $76,000 · OtherCinequest IncPeninsula Youth Theatre: $75,200 · OtherPeninsula Youth TheatreSan Jose Chamber Orchestra: $66,600 · OtherGOLDEN STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $61,500 · OtherLOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $53,500 · OtherTabard Theatre Company The: $45,800 · Other+30 more: $421,481 · Other+30 moreRED LADDER THEATRE COMPANY: $110,000 · Human ServicesLC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $100,000 · Human ServicesChamber Music Silicon Valley: $58,500 · Human ServicesAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY: $15,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY AGENCY FOR RESOURCES ADVOCACY & SERVICES: $15,000 · Human ServicesLocal Color: $148,200 · Community ImprovementSAN JOSE DOWNTOWN FOUNDATION: $14,700 · Community ImprovementSTARTING ARTS INC: $54,500 · Youth DevelopmentPOSITIVE ALTERNATIVE RECREATION TEAMBUILDING IMPACTING PROGRAM: $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentSAN JOSE COMMUNITY MEDIA ACCESS CORPORATION: $35,000 · Public BenefitAWO: $15,000 · Civil RightsLEAD FILIPINO: $10,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$3,109,150Other$1,356,874Human Services$298,500Community Improvement$162,900Youth Development$62,000Public Benefit$35,000Civil Rights$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSCHOOL OF ARTS AND CULTURE AT MHP: $328,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED: $195,600 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetTEATRO VISION: $165,300 over 8y, 7.1% of budgetCASHION CULTURAL LEGACY: $156,000 over 8y, 12% of budgetSan Jose Taiko Group Inc: $152,700 over 9y, 4.9% of budgetLocal Color: $148,200 over 7y, 5.1% of budgetSan Jose Jazz: $131,500 over 8y, 2.2% of budgetSAN JOSE INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART: $121,500 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetCITY LIGHTS THEATER CO OF SAN JOSE INC: $116,700 over 8y, 3.5% of budgetCOLLEGE OF ADAPTIVE ARTS: $110,950 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetRED LADDER THEATRE COMPANY: $110,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetPALO ALTO PLAYERS PENINSULA CENTER STAGE: $106,900 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetMOSAIC AMERICA: $103,200 over 8y, 4.0% of budgetSAN JOSE MULTICULTURAL ARTISTS GUILD INC: $101,350 over 6y, 13% of budgetLC AND LILLIE COX HAVEN OF HOPE: $100,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSILICON VALLEY AFRICAN FILM FESTIVAL: $98,000 over 5y, 21% of budgetSan Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles: $94,300 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetSan Jose Stage Company: $91,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetTRITON MUSEUM OF ART: $80,700 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetABHINAYA DANCE COMPANY OF SAN JOSE: $78,800 over 6y, 11% of budgetCinequest Inc: $76,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetPeninsula Youth Theatre: $75,200 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetOPERA CULTURA: $75,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetSILICON VALLEY SHAKESPEARE: $71,150 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetAimusic US: $67,500 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetSan Jose Chamber Orchestra: $66,600 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetSAN JOSE CENTER FOR POETRY AND LITERATURE: $66,500 over 4y, 34% of budgetChinese Performing Arts of America: $65,600 over 6y, 4.1% of budgetVIVACE YOUTH CHORUS OF SAN JOSE: $62,450 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetGOLDEN STATE YOUTH ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION: $61,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetSAN JOSE MUSEUM OF ART ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetChamber Music Silicon Valley: $58,500 over 5y, 29% of budgetChopsticks Alley Art: $56,000 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetSTARTING ARTS INC: $54,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetBus Barn Stage Company: $53,950 over 6y, 5.5% of budgetLOS GATOS MUSEUM ASSOCIATION: $53,500 over 4y, 3.3% of budgetARTS COUNCIL SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSAN JOSE YOUTH SYMPHONY: $48,530 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCantabile Youth Singers of Silicon Valley: $46,450 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetTabard Theatre Company The: $45,800 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetAUDACITY PERFORMING ARTS PROJECT INC: $44,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetKAISAHAN OF SAN JOSE: $37,500 over 4y, 9.7% of budgetPALO ALTO ART CENTER FOUNDATION: $35,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSAN JOSE COMMUNITY MEDIA ACCESS CORPORATION: $35,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW BALLET SCHOOL DOWNTOWN SAN JOSE INC: $34,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetContemporary Asian Theatre Scene Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetSOUTH BAY MUSICAL THEATRE: $32,450 over 4y, 5.5% of budgetWORKS SAN JOSE: $30,000 over 4y, 32% of budget
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 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 ↗

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…The David and Lucile …Silicon Valley Commun…The William & Flora H…Rotary Club of San Jo…Leo M Shortino Family…Farrington Historical…Valley Health Foundat…John S and James L Kn…Ibm International Fou…Castellano Family Fou…Los Altos Mountain Vi…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Silicon Valley Creates funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silicon Valley Creates. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    39report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 111 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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