· Private foundation
The A & D Tom Foundation
Its FY2025 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 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BreakthroughSF | $3,000 |
| Live Oak School | $2,000 |
| SF Marin Food Bank | $2,000 |
| Golden Gate Christian Church | $2,000 |
| Community Music Center | $1,500 |
| Syracuse University | $1,500 |
| UC Berkeley Foundation | $1,500 |
| Asian Women's Shelter | $1,250 |
| Presbyterian Church | $1,000 |
| Community Initiatives | $1,000 |
| BAYCAT | $1,000 |
| Chinatown YMCA | $1,000 |
| Alzheimers Association | $1,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity Greater SF | $1,000 |
| CPMC Foundation | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +6% for those funded once.
28 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MFMEI FONG AND ASSOCIATES AWS6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +68%
- CPCALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +112%
- CMCOMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $6k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- RTRuth's Table CO Front Porch Communione grant, 2023 · $3k
Chinese for Affirmative Actionone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -60%- AWASIAN WOMEN'S CENTERone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
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 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 AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
As one of the most enduring civil rights institutions on the West Coast, we work to dismantle systems of oppression and racism, and build an equitable and just society.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership of legal services nonprofits, serves its members through advocacy and other support in efforts to provide legal assistance to low-income Californians and ensure access to…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
To promote excellence in the legal profession and to facilitate equal access to justice.
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 55 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 MEI FONG AND ASSOCIATES AWS ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SELF-HELP FOR THE ELDERLY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SHE-CAN GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds PBS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Chinese for Affirmative Action ↗
- Who funds Womens Division Christian Service Gum Moon Residence Hall ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LIVE OAK A LEARNING CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Asian Law Caucus ↗
- Who funds GLIDE MEMORIAL CHURCH ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Tides Foundation · Metta Fund · McNabb Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The A & D Tom Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The A & D Tom Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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