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Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund at a glance

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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 FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% 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
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$107k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WOMEN'S BUILDING$5,000
GCAPP$5,000
NBAEF ANGEL FUND$2,000
FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS INC$2,000
PAWS - SHANTI PROJECT$1,500
PAWS - SHANTI PROJECT$1,000
PAWS - SHANTI PROJECT$150
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.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 88% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MAITRI: $5k → 10%GCAPP: $5k → 8%GCAPP: $15k → 13%MAITRI: $5k → 10%G-CAPP: $13k → 13%MAITRI: $5k → 10%G-CAPP: $10k → 13%G-CAPP: $10k → 13%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $5k → 10%G-CAPP: $5k → 13%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $3k → 10%INSTITUTE ON AGING: $3k → 10%HOSPICE BY THE BAY: $10k → 8%HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES: $5k → 10%HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES: $5k → 10%PAWS - LA: $5k → 14%Paws - LA: $3k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF LOS ANGELES: $5k → 14%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
NY
MA
SD
OH
CA
GA
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$807k · 35 repeat orgs$204k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +9% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
41

Total granted

$807k
$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+9%

Still filing today

66%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 ServicesHealthArts & CultureAnimalsCivil RightsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PA
    PROJECT ANGEL FOOD
    5× · 2017–2022 · $80k · revenue +452%
  • FC
    FENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $60k · revenue +19%
  • GC
    Georgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc
    6× · 2017–2025 · $58k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • RA
    ROC ACTION
    one grant, 2018 · $25k · revenue -100%
  • OI
    OLOC INC
    one grant, 2023 · $15k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
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
Aids Legal Referral Panel of the San Francisco Bay Area

Our mission is to advance and protect the rights, dignity, and health of people living with hiv/aids in the bay area. continued on schedule owe accomplish this through direct legal representation by one of our staff attorneys, by careful…

Health
2
Sacramento Lgbt Community Center

The Center works to create a region where all LGBTQ+ people thrive; we support health and wellness,advocate for equity and justice, and work to uplift our diverse and culturally rich LGBTQ+ community.

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3
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco

La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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4
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
5
Equality California Institute

To create a world that is healthy, just and fully equal for all lgbtq+ people.

Public Benefit
6
The Spahr Center

The Spahr Center provides cultural, community, and health programs and direct services that celebrate and support Marin County, California's LGBTQ+ and HIV communities.

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7
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
8
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
9
Center for Immigrant Protection

The LGBTAP is the only San Francisco nonprofit organization exclusively dedicated to providing accessible legal representation for LGBT asylum seekers who are fleeing persecution due to their sexual orientation, gener identity and/or HIV…

Crime & Legal
10
Theatre Bay Area

(cont from page 1) democratic society, and invaluable as a source of personal enrichment and growth.

Arts & Culture
11
San Francisco Senior and Disability Action Dba Senior & Disability Action

Senior & Disability Action educates and mobilizes seniors and people with disabilities to secure individual rights and social justice. We work together to create a city and world in which seniors and people with disabilities can live well…

Unclassified
12
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Actors' Fund of America; the most unlike its peers is Antenna Theater. 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

50 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 50 of the 77 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/50
Grantees still filing
32/50
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

LA Gay & Lesbian center: $173,400 · OtherLA Gay & Lesbian centerIndividual grant recipient: $50,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERS: $50,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO WOMEN'S CENTERSZEN HOSPICE PROJECT DBA ZEN CAREGIVING PROJECT: $25,000 · OtherROC ACTION: $25,000 · Other+44 more: $260,900 · Other+44 morePROJECT ANGEL FOOD: $80,000 · HealthPROJECT ANGEL FOODFENWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC: $60,000 · HealthFENWAY COMMUNITY HE…AIDS Assistance Program: $20,000 · HealthAIDS Assistance Pro…+3 more: $12,500 · Health+3 moreGeorgia Campaign for Adolescent Power and Potential Inc: $57,500 · Human ServicesGeorgia Campa…MAITRI: $15,000 · Human ServicesMAITRIINSTITUTE ON AGING: $10,000 · Human ServicesINSTITUTE ON …HEALING WATERS WILDERNESS ADVENTURES: $10,000 · Human ServicesHEALING WATER…BY THE BAY HEALTH: $10,000 · Human ServicesBY THE BAY HE…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF LOS ANGELES: $10,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY…PETS ARE WONDERFUL SUPPORT LOS ANGELES: $7,500 · Human ServicesPETS ARE WOND…BREAD & ROSES PRESENTS: $30,000 · Arts & CultureWILLIS WONDERLAND FOUNDATION: $10,000 · Arts & CultureAntenna Theater: $7,000 · Arts & CultureOpera Parallle: $6,000 · Arts & CultureFrom The Heart Productions: $2,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $500 · Arts & CultureMUTTVILLE: $18,000 · AnimalsPERFORMING ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY: $15,000 · AnimalsIN DEFENSE OF ANIMALS: $4,500 · AnimalsVOICE FOR THE ANIMALS: $3,000 · AnimalsPINEHAVEN FARM A SANCTUARY INC: $1,500 · AnimalsMARIN HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,500 · AnimalsCALIFORNIA COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATE ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Civil RightsTake Back The Court Foundation: $5,000 · Civil RightsLA COCINA: $15,000 · Community Improvement
Other$584,300Health$172,500Human Services$120,000Arts & Culture$55,500Animals$43,500Civil Rights$20,000Community Improvement$15,000

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 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
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.

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 Fou…Jewish Community Fede…Horizons FoundationMarin Community Found…McNabb FoundationBroadway Caresequity …The James Irvine Foun…California Community …The California Wellne…Silicon Valley Commun…The William & Flora H…The Yelp Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Silva Watson Moonwalk Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Fenway Community Health Center Inc: 27% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
20report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 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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