· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k25 grants · $112k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCVSEFA | $140,000 |
| RAFT | $75,000 |
| Santa Cruz County Office of Edu | $43,000 |
| CuriOdyssey | $25,000 |
| The Tech Interactive | $25,000 |
| Renaissance Academy at Ficscher | $21,000 |
| San Joaquin COE Educational Foundat | $18,000 |
| The Envisioneers | $14,200 |
| Santa Clara County Office of Educat | $10,000 |
| Project Invent | $10,000 |
| Sonoma County Office Of Education | $10,000 |
| SPARQ Center at Piner High School | $10,000 |
| Peacemakers' Alliance | $8,000 |
| Livermore Valley Joint Unified Scho | $7,617 |
| Infinite Learning and Resource Cent | $7,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 96%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against -5% for those funded once.
84 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2024, 70 since wound down; 23 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SJSAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $86k · revenue +55%
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE3× · 2017–2019 · $83k · revenue +39%
- PIProject Invent2× · 2023–2024 · $25k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- SVSILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -12%
- MEMigrant Education Program AUSDone grant, 2023 · $37k
- KCKrause Center for Innovationone grant, 2023 · $25k
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.
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.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
Parent Teacher Association providing Programming and Student enrichment support to Sutter Elementary School students. Support includes computer and science, music and art enrichment, assemblies, book fairs, STEAM initiatives, 5th grade…
San Francisco Arts and Science Academy (ASA) provides TK5 grade students with a strong foundation in the arts, language, math, and science, fostering creativity, curiosity, and character development. Our bilingual, hands-on curriculum…
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Support elementary school education
To champion equitable public education for students, families, and our community.
Fund school enrichment programs and facilitate community events.
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…
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
Folsom Prep Academy is renowned for providing academic excellence in K-5 grade levels while also developing necessary leadership and life skills in our students. Using an enriched and diverse curriculum, our teachers place personalized…
How this is measured
36 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 36 of the 200 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CURIODYSSEY ↗
- Who funds Project Invent ↗
- Who funds ENVISIONEERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds Morgan Hill Kiwanis Youth Fund ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE STEM FAIR ↗
- Who funds INFINITE LEARNING AND RESOURCE CENT ↗
- Who funds MORGAN HILL COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Outreach Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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