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The Bartlett 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $230k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO | $130,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS | $35,000 |
| MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| THE HAMLIN SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| NORTHERN LIGHT SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY | $10,000 |
| THE GUARDSMEN | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 99% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +10% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL3× · 2021–2024 · $650k · revenue +17%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO4× · 2020–2024 · $585k · revenue +10%
- TSTOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS3× · 2022–2024 · $80k · revenue +59%
Funded once
- IWIRISH WOLFHOUND FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -33%
- NCNevada County Fairgrounds Foundationone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +23%
- SYSCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -9%
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.
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…
At the bay school, we balance challenging academics and innovative thinking with a mindful approach to learning and life. our goal is to see students unlock their individual and collective potential so they begin to realize their roles in…
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.
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.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
Bentley school is a coeducational day school, grades k-12. the mission of the school is to inspire inquiry, academic excellence, personal achievement, and character by engaging students' intellect and creativity, and by encouraging them to…
At college prep we believe in the foundational importance of scholarship, the value of dialogue, and the need for academically curious young people to belong to a kind, creative, diverse and joyful community. we challenge our students to…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
To provide an academically exceptional education to students grade 9 through 12 in a warm, supportive, and nurturing environment.
See schedule oto realize the transformative potential of middle school. millennium school believes in developing each student to their fullest potential, this involves providing both a rigorous academic program and a science-based…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco University High School and the most unlike its peers is Irish Wolfhound Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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.
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 UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds THE HAMLIN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds TOWN SCHOOL FOR BOYS ↗
- Who funds Northern Light School ↗
- Who funds MARIN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds IRISH WOLFHOUND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Guardsmen ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds Nevada County Fairgrounds Foundation ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD 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 · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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 The Bartlett 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.
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