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Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$17k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
6
Organizations funded FY2024
67%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
5 to 36
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
3
Total assets, FY2025
$107k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 67% of the organizations Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 53% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCivil RightsHealthPhilanthropyOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving5$17k20%
FY20246$37k67%
FY20235$29k60%
FY20227$55k14%
FY20219$50k33%
FY202016$90k31%
FY201914$111k7%
FY201836$232k31%
97% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Civil Rights$252kHealth$210kFood & Nutrition$92kYouth Development$73kArts & Culture$72kHuman Services$63kAnimals$56kCommunity Improvement$25kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
SD
OH
CA
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 51 grantees
All grantees of Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Project Angel Food$80,00050%
Fenway Community Health Center Inc$60,00040%
Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc$57,50060%
San Francisco Women's Centers$50,00081%
Bread & Roses Presents$30,00051%
Zen Hospice Project Dba Zen Caregiving Project$25,00031%
Roc Action$25,0001n/a
AIDS Assistance Program$20,00022%
Muttville$18,00020%
Okizu Foundation$17,00040%
Maitri$15,0003n/a
La Cocina$15,00020%
Performing Animal Welfare Society$15,00030%
California Court Appointed Special Advocate Association$15,00031%
Shanti Project$10,15030%
Institute on Aging$10,00030%
Healing Waters Wilderness Adventures$10,00025%
Willis Wonderland Foundation$10,00016%
AIDS Project Los Angeles$10,00020%
By the Bay Health$10,00010%
Lavender Youth Recreation & Information Center Inc Lyric$10,00020%
Palm Center$10,00021%
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles$10,00020%
Pets Are Wonderful Support Los Angeles$7,50020%
Antenna Theater$7,00017%
Opera Parallle$6,00030%
The Actors' Fund of America$5,50030%
One Archives Foundation$5,00010%
Glaad Inc$5,00010%
Jewish Senior Life Foundation Inc$5,00010%
Bienestar Human Services Inc$5,00020%
Take Back The Court Foundation$5,00011%
Fraternity House Inc$5,0001n/a
National AIDS Memorial Inc$5,0001n/a
The Best Is Yet to Be$5,00012%
National Center for Lgbtq Rights Fka National Center for Lesbian Rights$5,00010%
In Defense of Animals$4,50030%
Voice for the Animals$3,0001n/a
Canal Alliance$3,00010%
Paws$2,5001n/a
Gay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles$2,50010%
Valley Health Foundation (Vhf)$2,50010%
Project Inform$2,50010%
Marin Bocce Federation$2,50011%
Breast Cancer Action$2,50010%
Camp Erutan$2,50014%
From The Heart Productions$2,0001n/a
Pinehaven Farm a Sanctuary Inc$1,5001n/a
Marin Humane Society$1,50010%
Environmental Traveling Companions$1,00010%
Sebastopol Center for the Arts$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($373k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetProject Angel Food: $80,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetFenway Community Health Center Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $57,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetSan Francisco Women's Centers: $50,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetBread & Roses Presents: $30,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetZen Hospice Project Dba Zen Caregiving Project: $25,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetAIDS Assistance Program: $20,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetMuttville: $18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetOkizu Foundation: $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLa Cocina: $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPerforming Animal Welfare Society: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCalifornia Court Appointed Special Advocate Association: $15,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetShanti Project: $10,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetInstitute on Aging: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHealing Waters Wilderness Adventures: $10,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetWillis Wonderland Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetAIDS Project Los Angeles: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBy the Bay Health: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLavender Youth Recreation & Information Center Inc Lyric: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPalm Center: $10,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Family Service of Los Angeles: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPets Are Wonderful Support Los Angeles: $7,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAntenna Theater: $7,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetOpera Parallle: $6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Actors' Fund of America: $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOne Archives Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGlaad Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Senior Life Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBienestar Human Services Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTake Back The Court Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Best Is Yet to Be: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNational Center for Lgbtq Rights Fka National Center for Lesbian Rights: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIn Defense of Animals: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCanal Alliance: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGay Mens Chorus of Los Angeles: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetValley Health Foundation (Vhf): $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProject Inform: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarin Bocce Federation: $2,500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBreast Cancer Action: $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCamp Erutan: $2,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMarin Humane Society: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEnvironmental Traveling Companions: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSebastopol Center for the Arts: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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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 43.

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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 San Francisco FoundationCA29.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Horizons Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · The James Irvine Foundation · California Community Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Yelp 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 Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund

How much does Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund give?
Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund reported 7 grants totaling $16,650 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 36 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (25%), Health (21%), Food & Nutrition (9%).
Who are Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Project Angel Food ($80k), Fenway Community Health Center Inc ($60k), Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc ($58k).
Does Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Horizons Foundation.
Where is Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund based?
Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund is based in CA.

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 77 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-PF 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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