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Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2
Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact Investees and the philanthropic capacity of our donors (called Partners). SV2 does this through…
- $857k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $90,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 21
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.8M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2 funded were first-time grantees, receiving 92% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $360k 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 | 5 | $542k | 80% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $393k | 80% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $691k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $564k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $453k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $437k | 77% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $374k | 92% |
| FY2018 | 21 | $360k | 86% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Redwood City | $755,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Stride Center | $175,000 | 1 | 7% |
| Social Venture Partners International | $137,568 | 6 | 2% |
| Streetcode Academy | $132,500 | 1 | 4% |
| Puente de la Costa Sur | $125,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Independent Arts & Media | $125,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Redwood City Police Activities League Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 9% |
| College is Real Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 16% |
| Sv Home | $120,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Bayview Futures Fka Center for Youth Wellness | $115,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 74 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($135k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2 supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 62 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Sobrato Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The California Endowment · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2 with peer funders
About Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2
- How much does Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2 give?
- Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2 reported 7 grants totaling $857,490 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 21 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2 fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (27%), Community Improvement (18%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Redwood City ($755k), The Stride Center ($175k), Social Venture Partners International ($138k).
- Does Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2 fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Sobrato Family Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Where is Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2 based?
- Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2 is based in CA.
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