· Private foundation
Stephanie Kalman Foundation
Its FY2022 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 FY2020–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k12 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $33k
- $250k+1 grant · $651k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MS GIFT STEPHANIE GIFFEN DONOR ADVISED FUND | $650,710 |
| CAL STATE EAST BAY | $20,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO PLAYHOUSE | $12,500 |
| SMUIN BALLET | $2,500 |
| SAN FRANCISCO BALLET | $1,000 |
| SAVE MOUNT DIABLO | $1,000 |
| JOHN MUIR LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| WORKING BIKES | $500 |
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUMS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $300 |
| GUALALA ARTS CENTER | $300 |
| SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART | $300 |
| KQED | $300 |
| REDWOOD COAST MEDICAL SERVICES | $300 |
| SAN FRANCISCO HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +58% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $652k 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
- SFSan Francisco Playhouse3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +112%
- SBSmuin Ballet3× · 2020–2022 · $18k · revenue +8%
- KIKQED INC3× · 2020–2022 · $3k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- WCWALNUT CREEK LIBRARY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +76%
- DRDiablo Regional Arts Associationgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +58%
- SFSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONYone grant, 2020 · $300 · revenue +4%
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.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.
The museum's mission is to inspire all californians to create a more vibrant future for themselves and their communities. through collections, exhibitions, education programs, and public dialogue, we inspire people of all ages and…
Sfbatco unites artists and audiences through live theatre that is reflective of the authentic perspectives and history of the san francisco bay area.
Choral Music Performances: California Bach Society is a 30-voice chamber choir known for finely wrought interpretations of Renaissance and Baroque music, often accompanied by leading period instrumentalists. Each season, the choir performs…
Take world-class symphonic music off the pedestal and into the heart of our community. San Francisco Philharmonic is an orchestral group dedicated to cultural enrichment, music education and creating a performance platform for women and…
The Organizations primary impact is to preserve and enhance San Franciscos unique architectural and cultural identity.
Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony and the most unlike its peers is Working Bikes. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 19 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 San Francisco Playhouse ↗
- Who funds Smuin Ballet ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS ↗
- Who funds BAY SCHOLARS ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds John Muir Land Trust prev Muir Heritage Land Trust ↗
- Who funds SAVE MOUNT DIABLO ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART ↗
- Who funds WALNUT CREEK LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Diablo Regional Arts Association ↗
- Who funds Working Bikes ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Historical Society ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD COAST MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · Moore Dry Dock Foundation · William a Kerr Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment 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 Stephanie Kalman 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.
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.