Does Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation 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 Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Kla Foundation, Atkinson Foundation.

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Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach 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.

$513k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 37
Grants FY2024: 35
Organizations funded FY2023: 63%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $140,000
Organizations funded a year: 9 to 98; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 1
Total assets, FY2024: $790k
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $211k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementScience & TechRecreation & SportsOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	37	$513k	62%
FY2023	35	$591k	63%
FY2022	21	$146k	71%
FY2021	9	$201k	33%
FY2020	12	$498k	67%
FY2019	44	$404k	27%
FY2018	79	$325k	23%
FY2017	98	$413k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

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

Science & Tech$1.5MEducation$980kEmployment$270kRecreation & Sports$220kYouth Development$68kCommunity Improvement$25kPhilanthropy$11kCrime & Legal$8kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Raft Inc	$270,000	4	n/a
Sonoma Valley Unified School	$88,500	6	n/a
San Jose State University Research Foundation	$86,138	3	0%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College	$83,081	3	0%
The Tech Interactive	$50,000	2	0%
Silicon Valley Education Foundation	$40,000	1	1%
Curiodyssey	$32,500	2	0%
Project Invent	$25,000	2	1%
Monterey County Office of Education	$20,000	2	n/a
Envisioneers Inc	$14,200	1	0%

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All grantees of Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Raft Inc	$270,000	4	n/a
Sonoma Valley Unified School	$88,500	6	n/a
San Jose State University Research Foundation	$86,138	3	0%
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College	$83,081	3	0%
The Tech Interactive	$50,000	2	0%
Silicon Valley Education Foundation	$40,000	1	1%
Curiodyssey	$32,500	2	0%
Project Invent	$25,000	2	1%
Monterey County Office of Education	$20,000	2	n/a
Envisioneers Inc	$14,200	1	0%
The Oakland Public Education Fund	$11,695	2	0%
Morgan Hill Kiwanis Youth Fund	$11,000	2	7%
Sparq Center at Piner High School	$10,000	1	n/a
Golden Gate STEM Fair	$10,000	2	28%
Peacemakers Alliance	$8,000	1	n/a
Infinite Learning and Resource Cent	$7,500	1	n/a
Jose Valdes Math Foundation	$5,000	1	1%
Girl Scouts of Northern California	$5,000	1	0%
Sunnyvale Education Foundation	$5,000	1	2%
Connect Community Charter School	$5,000	1	0%
Roseland School District	$5,000	1	n/a
Oakland Unified School District	$5,000	1	n/a
Foothill-Deanza Community Colleges Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Feeding America	$5,000	1	0%
Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley	$5,000	1	0%
Self-Estem	$5,000	1	1%
Sustainable Silicon Valley	$5,000	1	3%
Longfellow Elementary PTA	$5,000	1	16%
University Preparatory Academy	$5,000	1	0%
Sherman Oaks Parent Teacher Committee	$5,000	1	n/a
Teentechsf Global	$3,500	1	n/a
Greene Scholars	$1,700	4	0%
Village School Inc	$950	3	0%
Lucha Inc	$950	3	n/a
East Palo Alto Academy Foundation	$944	1	0%
Kipp Bay Area Schools	$850	2	0%
Majestic Way PTA	$750	2	n/a
Alum Rock Union Elementary School District	$700	1	n/a
Capri Elementary School PTA	$600	3	0%
Washington Open Parent Faculty Group	$350	1	0%
South Peninsula Hebrew Day School	$350	2	0%
Loyola Elementary School PTA	$350	1	0%
Frank S Greene Jr Middle School PTA	$300	1	n/a
Live Oak Academy	$250	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 155 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 29.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA23.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kla Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · Intrepid Philanthropy Foundation · John and Marcia Goldman Foundation · Naturebridge

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 Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation

How much does Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation give?: Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $512,872 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 98 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (49%), Education (32%), Employment (9%).
Who are Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Raft Inc ($270k), Sonoma Valley Unified School ($89k), San Jose State University Research Foundation ($86k).
Does Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation 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 Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Kla Foundation, Atkinson Foundation.
Where is Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation based?: Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation is based in CA.