· Private foundation
Sophie & Arthur Brody Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $108k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $301k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION | $126,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $125,000 |
| HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| BENTLEY SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| FACING HISTORY AND OURSELVES | $15,000 |
| ALL AMERICANS VOTE | $15,000 |
| HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH | $15,000 |
| UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ACCELERATE CHANGE | $15,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION (DAF) | $12,500 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY - STANFORD LIVE | $7,500 |
| UCSF CARDIOLOGY COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| CLASSICAL KDFC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BERKELEY HILLS NURSERY SCHOOL | $3,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 81% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
72 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- FFFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +82%
- THTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL7× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +31%
- FHFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC4× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- TDTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +217%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANCER RESEARCHone grant, 2020 · $20k
- WIWILDAID INCone grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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,…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…
The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tahoe Nordic Search & Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
75 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. 75 of the 101 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC ↗
- Who funds Canopy ↗
- Who funds THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds KOMERA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONPROFITS ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CHILDRENS THEATRE FKA ACTIVE ARTS THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIEN ↗
- Who funds BENTLEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles ↗
- Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds All Americans Vote ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN ↗
- Who funds THE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS ↗
- Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
- Who funds Children's Council of San Francisco ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds ADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds VOTERIDERS ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Atkinson Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Marin Community Foundation · Stephen S Smith and Paula K Smith Family Foundation · The Intuit 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 Sophie & Arthur Brody Foundation 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
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.