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The Archer Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$143k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
37
Grants FY2025
40
Organizations funded FY2024
20%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$300
Largest grant, FY2025
$35,000
Organizations funded a year
29 to 40
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
15
Total assets, FY2025
$269k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 20% of the organizations The Archer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsArts & CultureEducationOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving37$143k19%
FY202440$184k20%
FY202339$177k21%
FY202237$200k19%
FY202129$199k0%
FY202037$128k8%
FY201936$154k14%
FY201834$151k29%
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Human Services$608kFood & Nutrition$319kHealth$224kRecreation & Sports$159kEducation$113kYouth Development$36kPublic Benefit$2kArts & Culture$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
IA
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CA
NE
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
TN
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 43 grantees
All grantees of The Archer Family Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Young Men's Christian Association of Silicon Valley$350,19690%
Pacific Clinics$286,69690%
Cancer Carepoint Inc$63,50091%
Ncga Foundation$32,50050%
Peninsula Volunteers Inc$15,50040%
Saratoga Foothill Club$7,00073%
Hope Services$6,75080%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$6,30090%
National Multiple Sclerosis Society$5,63360%
Blood Cancer United Inc$5,46090%
Nami Santa Clara County$5,0001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$4,15090%
Muscular Dystrophy Association Inc$4,15060%
Boys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley$3,65090%
Friends of the Saratoga Libraries$3,50070%
Parkinson's Institute and Clinical Center$3,0508n/a
American Heart Association Inc$2,63080%
Sutter Bay Medical Foundation$2,00040%
Food Bank for Monterey County$1,50020%
Paralyzed Veterans of America$1,47570%
Shriners Hospitals for Children$1,25050%
Wounded Warrior Project Inc$1,13070%
SAN JOSE AUXILIARY FOR CHILDREN dba THRIFT BOX$1,00040%
Humane Society Silicon Valley$80020%
Kqed Inc$64030%
Autism Speaks Inc$55030%
American Macular Degeneration Goehring$50030%
Yu-Ai Kai Japantown Community Senior Center$50010%
Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired$50010%
Foundation for a College Education$50010%
Father Flanagan's Boys' Home$40020%
Lupus Foundation of America Inc$40010%
Central Coast Vna & Hospice Inc$3001n/a
Disabled American Veterans$3001n/a
Alpha Chi Omega Foundation Inc$25010%
Mental Health America Inc$25010%
American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches$15330%
American Lung Association$15030%
Chp 11-99 Foundation$15010%
United States Law Enforcement Foundation Inc$12510%
National Glaucoma Society$1001n/a
March of Dimes Inc$10030%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$2510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($648k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Archer Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of Silicon Valley: $350,196 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetPacific Clinics: $286,696 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCancer Carepoint Inc: $63,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetNcga Foundation: $32,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPeninsula Volunteers Inc: $15,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSaratoga Foothill Club: $7,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetHope Services: $6,750 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $6,300 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNational Multiple Sclerosis Society: $5,633 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $5,460 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $4,150 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Association Inc: $4,150 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley: $3,650 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFriends of the Saratoga Libraries: $3,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $2,630 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSutter Bay Medical Foundation: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank for Monterey County: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetParalyzed Veterans of America: $1,475 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetShriners Hospitals for Children: $1,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warrior Project Inc: $1,130 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAN JOSE AUXILIARY FOR CHILDREN dba THRIFT BOX: $1,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHumane Society Silicon Valley: $800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $640 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $550 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Macular Degeneration Goehring: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYu-Ai Kai Japantown Community Senior Center: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoundation for a College Education: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFather Flanagan's Boys' Home: $400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLupus Foundation of America Inc: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha Chi Omega Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMental Health America Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $153 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Lung Association: $150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetChp 11-99 Foundation: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Law Enforcement Foundation Inc: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMarch of Dimes Inc: $100 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $25 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 38.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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 FoundationCA18.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Sosj Knights Hospitaller Priory of the Western USA · The Sharks Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · Tides Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · American Endowment 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.

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Find your warmest path to The Archer Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Archer Family Foundation

How much does The Archer Family Foundation give?
The Archer Family Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $142,940 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Archer Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (41%), Food & Nutrition (22%), Health (15%).
Who are The Archer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Young Men's Christian Association of Silicon Valley ($350k), Pacific Clinics ($287k), Cancer Carepoint Inc ($64k).
Does The Archer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Archer Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Archer Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation.
Where is The Archer Family Foundation based?
The Archer Family Foundation is based in CA.

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 75 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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