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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.

$857k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$1.5MCommunity Improvement$1.0MYouth Development$454kEducation$433kEnvironment$420kHealth$351kHuman Services$351kArts & Culture$303kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $22k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $585k
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$90,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
REDWOOD CITY TOGETHER$250,000
IMPACTASSETS$225,000
PARENT VOICES$90,000
LEARNING HOME VOLUNTEERS$90,000
JOSE VALDES MATH FOUNDATION$90,000
TIDES CENTER$90,000
GRANTS 5000 OR LESS EACH$22,490
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $511k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $8k → 22%PARENT VOICES: $90k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $90k → 14%MULTICULTURAL INSTITUTE: $8k → 10%CLIMATE RESILIENT COMMUNITIES: $80k → 8%ONE DEGREE: $30k → 10%CHILD CARE LAW CENTER: $8k → 10%WORKING SOLUTIONS: $8k → 10%MUJERES UNIDAS Y ACTIVAS: $94k → 10%CENTER FOR YOUNG WOMENS DEV: $7k → 10%TARJIMLY INC: $90k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

WA
IL
NY
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
NC
DC

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 25% of Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2lessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

25%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.1M · 10 repeat orgs$3.1M to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
64

Total granted

$1.1M
$2.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-10%
+28%

Still filing today

60%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $292k 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
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHealthCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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

  • T
    TALKINGPOINTS
    2× · 2018–2021 · $11k · revenue ×22
  • SM
    SOMOS MAYFAIR INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +161%
  • BS
    BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY
    2× · 2018–2021 · $8k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • TS
    THE STRIDE CENTER
    one grant, 2017 · $175k
  • SA
    STREETCODE ACADEMY
    one grant, 2021 · $133k · revenue -22%
  • Independent Arts & Mediagraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue +36%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
3
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
4
Silicon Valley Rising Action

Silicon Valley Rising Action takes on occupational segregation and income inequality with a comprehensive campaign to raise wages, create affordable housing, and build a tech economy that works for everyone.

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5
California Forward

Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…

Public Benefit
6
Active San Gabriel Valley

Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.

Community Improvement
7
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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8
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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9
Transformca dba Transform

Transform works to ensure that people of all incomes thrive in a world safe from climate chaos.

Community Improvement
10
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
11
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…

Philanthropy
12
Ffwd

FFWD accelerates the growth of technology nonprofits by providing financial and human capital to help scale technology solutions for education, environmental, health, and human rights issues.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Breakthrough Silicon Valley and the most unlike its peers is Joe Goode Performance Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFamily Mental Health Counse…Youth Development Organizat…Environmental Conservation …School Parent Support Organ…Family Philanthropic Founda…Youth Sports ProgramsEarly Childhood Care CentersAffordable Senior HousingAsian Faith CommunitiesFree Legal ServicesCommunity Health Care AccessDisability and Senior Care …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 22 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%5%<5yr15%8%5–10yr19%32%10–20yr17%38%20–35yr14%15%35–55yr12%3%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%5%<5yr15%12%5–10yr19%54%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr14%6%35–55yr12%0%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
3%2/79
the rest of the field
11%
3,556/30,965

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.

05the grantee network

77 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. 77 of the 83 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/77
Grantees still filing
47/77
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

IMPACTASSETSINC — $1,402,500 · PhilanthropyIMPACTASSETSINCSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL — $137,568 · PhilanthropySOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS INTERNA…+3 more — $32,750 · PhilanthropyCity of Redwood City — $755,000 · OtherCity of Redwood CityTHE STRIDE CENTER — $175,000 · OtherTHE STRIDE CENTERBAYVIEW FUTURES FKA CENTER FOR YOUTH WELLNESS — $115,000 · OtherFUND GOOD JOBS INC — $115,000 · OtherAYUDANDO LATINOS A SONAR — $90,000 · OtherRedwood City Police Activities League Inc — $125,000 · OtherRedwood City Police Activities League IncPartnership for Children & Youth — $100,000 · OtherSV HOME — $120,000 · OtherSV HOMEBRIGHTLINE DEFENSE PROJECT — $80,000 · Other+32 more — $542,892 · Other+32 moreCollege is Real Inc — $125,000 · EducationCollege is …Learning Home Volunteers — $90,000 · EducationLearning Ho…Jose Valdes Math Foundation — $90,000 · EducationJose Valdes…AMBITION ANGELS — $90,000 · EducationAMBITION AN…Upward Scholars — $75,000 · EducationUpward Scho…UASPIRE INC — $30,000 · EducationCollegespring Inc — $30,000 · Education+4 more — $37,650 · Education+4 moreMujeres Unidas y Activas — $93,500 · Human ServicesMujeres Un…Tarjimly Inc — $90,000 · Human ServicesTarjimly I…TIDES CENTER — $90,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENT…PARENT VOICES OAKLAND — $90,000 · Human ServicesPARENT VOI…Climate Resilient Communities — $80,000 · Human ServicesClimate Re…ONE DEGREE — $30,000 · Human ServicesONE DEGREE+5 more — $37,500 · Human Services+5 moreSTREETCODE ACADEMY — $132,500 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INC — $93,000 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS FOR YOUTH INC — $90,000 · Youth Development+3 more — $14,500 · Youth DevelopmentIndependent Arts & Media — $125,000 · Arts & CulturePUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR — $125,000 · Arts & CultureFRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS — $30,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $3,500 · Arts & CultureWorking Partnerships USA — $100,000 · HealthONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER — $75,000 · HealthTHE HEALTH TRUST — $30,000 · HealthSUPPORTING INITIATIVES TO REDISTRIBUTE UNUSED MEDICINE - SIRUM — $30,000 · Health+1 more — $500 · Health
Philanthropy$1,572,818Other$2,217,892Education$567,650Human Services$511,000Youth Development$330,000Arts & Culture$283,500Health$235,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetIMPACTASSETSINC — $1,402,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STRIDE CENTER — $175,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS INTERNATIONAL — $137,568 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetSTREETCODE ACADEMY — $132,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetIndependent Arts & Media — $125,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetRedwood City Police Activities League Inc — $125,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCollege is Real Inc — $125,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetPUENTE DE LA COSTA SUR — $125,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSV HOME — $120,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetBAYVIEW FUTURES FKA CENTER FOR YOUTH WELLNESS — $115,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFUND GOOD JOBS INC — $115,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetPartnership for Children & Youth — $100,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetWorking Partnerships USA — $100,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetMujeres Unidas y Activas — $93,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $93,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTarjimly Inc — $90,000 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetLearning Home Volunteers — $90,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPARENT VOICES OAKLAND — $90,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetAMBITION ANGELS — $90,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetFRIENDS FOR YOUTH INC — $90,000 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetBRIGHTLINE DEFENSE PROJECT — $80,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetClimate Resilient Communities — $80,000 over 1y, 7.5% of budgetONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER — $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetUpward Scholars — $75,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT — $36,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAsian Pacific Environmental Network — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFRESH MEAT PRODUCTIONS — $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetGridLab Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetUASPIRE INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE HEALTH TRUST — $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalifornia Youth Connection — $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHOUSING TRUST SILICON VALLEY — $30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCollegespring Inc — $30,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetASIAN NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetREDWOOD CITY EDUCATION FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTALKINGPOINTS — $11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc — $10,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE CIRCLE 4 — $10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUST FOR HIDDEN VILLA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWest Contra Costa Public Education Fund — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUMA VENTURES INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDEFY VENTURES INC — $9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSOMOS MAYFAIR INC — $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY — $7,650 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCentro Community Partners — $7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
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.

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.

The Sobrato Family Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …The San Francisco Fou…Tides FoundationSand Hill FoundationAtkinson FoundationEast Bay Community Fo…Kaiser Foundation Hos…The California Endowm…The Heising-Simons Fo…Philanthropic Venture…
The Sobrato Family FoundationCA49.1× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Social Venture Fund - Sv2 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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