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Sophie & Arthur Brody Foundation at a glance

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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.

$439k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$126k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.3MHealth$851kArts & Culture$168kPhilanthropy$149kInternational$97kCivil Rights$81kEnvironment$71kAnimals$64kOther$0
02FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $108k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $301k
$15,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ACCELERATE CHANGE$15,000
UCSF BENIOFF CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$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
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 (FY17–23, $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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CHALLENGED ATHLETES: $1k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES: $1k → 11%CHALLENGED ATHLETES: $1k → 11%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $500 → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $500 → 17%CHALLENGED ATHLETES: $1k → 11%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $500 → 17%CHALLENGED ATHLETES: $1k → 11%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $500 → 17%CHALLENGED ATHLETES: $500 → 11%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $500 → 17%MY NEW RED SHOES: $750 → 7%MY NEW RED SHOES: $750 → 7%MY NEW RED SHOES: $750 → 7%MY NEW RED SHOES: $750 → 7%MY NEW RED SHOES: $750 → 7%WOMEN'S DAYTIME DROP-IN CENTER: $3k → 10%CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $4k → 10%CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $3k → 10%CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $3k → 10%CHILDREN'S COUNCIL OF SAN FRANCISCO: $2k → 10%ABILITIES UNITED: $300 → 8%ABILITIES UNITED: $300 → 8%ABILITIES UNITED: $300 → 8%ABILITIES UNITED: $300 → 8%ABILITIES UNITED: $300 → 8%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
OR
CT
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 72 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +14% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

72
20

Total granted

$2.7M
$125k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+14%

Still filing today

75%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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

  • FF
    FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +82%
  • TH
    THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · $165k · revenue +31%
  • FH
    FACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $70k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • TD
    THE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $40k · revenue +284%
  • WI
    WILDAID INC
    one grant, 2019 · $20k · revenue +16%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANCER RESEARCH
    one grant, 2020 · $20k
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
3
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
4
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
5
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
6
Association of California School Administrators

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.

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7
San Francisco Friends School

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…

Education
8
The Bar Association of San Francisco

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…

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9
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
10
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
11
California Dental Association Foundation

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.

Science & Tech
12
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Accelerate Change Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

75 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. 75 of the 101 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
74/75
Grantees still filing
47/75
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $1,083,600 · EducationFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $721,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION+5 more: $72,000 · EducationTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $165,000 · OtherTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOLJEWISH FEDERATION OF EAST BAY: $80,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF EAST …JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION (DAF): $37,500 · OtherHOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $30,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $25,000 · Other+55 more: $372,549 · Other+55 moreFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $70,000 · Arts & CultureSan Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles: $18,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INC: $18,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $7,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $7,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $5,500 · Arts & CultureHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $35,000 · InternationalGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $25,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 · International+2 more: $2,750 · InternationalCanopy: $52,000 · Environment350ORG: $5,000 · EnvironmentUrban Adamah: $4,000 · EnvironmentDREAMORG: $4,000 · Environment+5 more: $6,000 · EnvironmentTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $40,000 · AnimalsWILDAID INC: $20,000 · AnimalsCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $15,000 · HealthBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS: $13,000 · HealthADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $9,599 · HealthRonald McDonald House Global: $9,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,500 · HealthVista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $2,500 · HealthEDNA ADAN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Health+3 more: $3,800 · Health
Education$1,876,600Other$710,049Arts & Culture$125,500International$81,750Environment$71,000Animals$60,000Health$57,399

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFOUNDATION FOR A COLLEGE EDUCATION: $1,083,600 over 8y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $721,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL: $165,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetFACING HISTORY & OURSELVES INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCanopy: $52,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetTHE DAVID SHELDRICK WILDLIFE TRUST USA INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOMEFIRST SERVICES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKOMERA INC: $29,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC: $25,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CHILDRENS THEATRE FKA ACTIVE ARTS THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIEN: $22,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONPROFITS: $22,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetWILDAID INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBENTLEY SCHOOL: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles: $18,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetKQED INC: $18,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAll Americans Vote: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACCELERATE CHANGE INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL: $14,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $14,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS: $13,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO READ: $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Council of San Francisco: $11,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES: $9,599 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRonald McDonald House Global: $9,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVOTERIDERS: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD CITY LIBRARY FOUNDATION: $6,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetOne World Childrens Fund: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS HEALTH GUILD: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCHALLENGED ATHLETES INC: $5,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budget350ORG: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PALO ALTO COMMUNITY FUND: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER ACTION: $4,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUrban Adamah: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMORG: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $3,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMBOLDEN CHANGE: $3,750 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JEWISH STUDIO PROJECT: $3,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • 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 GLOBAL FUND FOR WOMEN INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
  • Who funds BAY AREA CHILDRENS THEATRE FKA ACTIVE ARTS THEATRE FOR YOUNG AUDIEN ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR EXCELLENCE IN NONPROFITS ↗
  • Who funds WILDAID INC ↗
  • Who funds BENTLEY SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds All Americans Vote ↗
  • Who funds ACCELERATE CHANGE INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL & RESEARCH CNTR FNDN ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • 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 ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…Atkinson FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…The David and Lucile …Philanthropic Venture…East Bay Community Fo…Gordon E and Betty I …The Palo Alto Communi…Marin Community Found…Stephen S Smith and P…The Intuit Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA36.2× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Sophie & Arthur Brody Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sophie & Arthur Brody Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
15report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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 101 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home