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The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University

Stanford university is one of a select group of american universities that have achieved eminence in both undergraduate and graduate education and research - cont'd sch o.

$805M
Granted FY2024still arriving
127
Grants FY2024still arriving
21
States reached
$25M
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$119MHealth$71MArts & Culture$21MInternational$16MPhilanthropy$13MRecreation & Sports$11MHuman Services$9.9MPublic Benefit$5.9MOther$0
02FY2024 · 127 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 127 grants below total $74,621,351, the rows itemized in this filing. The $805,429,077 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $730,807,726 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k37 grants · $3.5M
  • $250k+26 grants · $70M
$40,000
Median grant
21
States reached
$63.3B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC$25,000,000
UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION$15,000,000
CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC$6,000,000
STANFORD HEALTH CARE$3,810,000
JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES$3,001,000
MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$2,500,000
SAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION$2,000,000
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$1,529,332
THE NATURE CONSERVANCY$1,250,000
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY$1,235,500
SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION$1,000,000
HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$1,000,000
AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION$1,000,000
BAY AREA CANCER CONNECTIONS$900,000
ILLUMINATE THE ARTS$600,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $8.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%KIEVE-WAVUS EDUCATION INC: $25k → 9%HOUSING CONSORTIUM OF THE EAST BAY: $250k → 10%KIEVE WAVUS EDUCATION INC: $10k → 9%HOUSING CONSORTIUM OF THE EAST BAY: $250k → 10%SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS FOUNDATION: $100k → 8%THORN: $33k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%THORN DIGITAL DEFENDER OF CHILDREN: $33k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $10k → 14%VOW FOR GIRLS INC: $25k → 17%WOMENONE LTD: $85k → 17%WOMENONE LTD: $85k → 17%WOMENONE LTD: $80k → 17%WOMENONE LTD: $75k → 17%WOMENONE LTD: $60k → 17%WOMENONE LTD: $50k → 17%WOMENONE LTD: $45k → 17%WOMENONE LTD: $40k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $203k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $3.0M → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $2.0M → 10%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $25k → 17%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $1.0M → 10%SAN FRANCISCO JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICE: $250k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $50k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $10k → 10%THE TEAK FELLOWSHIP: $25k → 17%BAY AREA COUNCIL: $7k → 10%AMERICAN RED CROSS HEALTH & SAFETY SERVICES: $7k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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WA
ID
MT
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
NV
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
NE
KY
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$193M · 154 repeat orgs$45M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +24% for those funded once.

154 repeat relationships: 69 still active in FY2024, 85 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

154
120

Total granted

$193M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+24%

Still filing today

89%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureInternationalHealthEnvironmentRecreation & 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.

Backed again, and grew

  • SH
    STANFORD HEALTH CARE
    8× · 2017–2024 · $15M · revenue +96%
  • UNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · $11M · revenue +50%
  • TP
    TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · $7.1M · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • EC
    EL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $2.0M
  • SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue +30%
  • ND
    NOTRE DAME DE NAMUR UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $1.0M · revenue -53%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
4
Golden Gate University

Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…

Education
5
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education
6
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
7
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
8
The George Washington University

The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…

Education
9
University of the Pacific

To provide a superior, student-centered learning experience integrating liberal arts and professional education and preparing individuals for lasting achievement and responsible leadership in their careers and communities.

Education
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America; the most unlike its peers is Commoncrawl Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

304 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. 304 of the 334 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
300/304
Grantees still filing
207/304
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $50,000,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATIONMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $15,375,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $10,607,338 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATIONUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $8,260,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDAT…+51 more: $30,658,498 · Education+51 moreTHE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000,000 · HealthTHE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE…STANFORD HEALTH CARE: $15,153,723 · HealthSTANFORD HEALTH CARELUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $6,770,000 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATI…LUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD: $6,179,000 · HealthLUCILE SALTER PACKARD C…+11 more: $5,216,800 · Health+11 moreMENLO SCHOOL: $4,500,000 · OtherMENLO SCHOOLSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $4,035,000 · OtherSAN MATEO COUNTY HI…THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA: $3,697,180 · OtherTHE COMMONWEALTH CL…STANFORD JEWISH CENTER INC: $2,650,000 · OtherSTANFORD JEWISH CEN…EL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $6,411,000 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY AND C…+70 more: $26,167,859 · Other+70 moreTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $7,108,333 · PhilanthropyTIPPING PO…CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $6,000,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & Y…DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,361,000 · PhilanthropyDONOR ADVI…AMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN E…NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,529,332 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL P…PHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $1,075,000 · PhilanthropyHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $947,281 · Philanthropy+11 more: $2,990,000 · Philanthropy+11 moreSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $4,227,200 · Arts & CultureSTORM KING ART CENTER: $3,000,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM: $2,500,000 · Arts & CultureSHED NYC INC: $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,000,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL WORLD WAR II MUSEUM INC: $900,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $750,000 · Arts & CultureASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $620,000 · Arts & CultureILLUMINATE THE ARTS: $600,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $1,560,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $7,053,000 · Recreation & SportsField Institute of Taos: $810,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES OLYMPIC AND PARALYMPIC FOUNDATION: $365,000 · Recreation & Sports+4 more: $598,770 · Recreation & SportsAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $4,500,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $2,400,000 · InternationalAFS-USA INC: $500,000 · InternationalTHE KOSCIUSZKO FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · International+6 more: $687,500 · International
Education$114,900,836Health$58,319,523Other$49,461,039Philanthropy$25,010,946Arts & Culture$17,157,200Recreation & Sports$8,826,770International$8,437,500

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION: $50,000,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTHE MORGRIDGE INSTITUTE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $15,375,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSTANFORD HEALTH CARE: $15,153,723 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OREGON FOUNDATION: $10,607,338 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $8,260,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetTIPPING POINT COMMUNITY: $7,108,333 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO PARKS ALLIANCE: $7,053,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $6,770,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S SERVICES: $6,411,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetLUCILE SALTER PACKARD CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AT STANFORD: $6,179,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $6,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetAMERICAN SOCIETY OF THE UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA: $4,500,000 over 4y, 17% of budgetMENLO SCHOOL: $4,500,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $4,227,200 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSAN MATEO COUNTY HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION: $4,035,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetTHE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA: $3,697,180 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetMAKING WAVES FOUNDATION INC AKA MAKING WAVES EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $3,251,503 over 8y, 5.2% of budgetSTORM KING ART CENTER: $3,000,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetYale University: $2,500,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF BEIT HATFUTSOT D/B/A AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ANU-MUSEUM: $2,500,000 over 5y, 33% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC: $2,400,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetDONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC: $2,361,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University: $2,155,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHED NYC INC: $2,000,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetAMERICAN ENDOWMENT FOUNDATION: $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGIA TECH FOUNDATION INC: $1,651,750 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTHE J DAVID GLADSTONE INSTITUTES: $1,559,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $1,530,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $1,529,332 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,500,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA: $1,370,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $1,325,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $1,260,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING: $1,094,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUCLA FOUNDATION: $1,082,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC VENTURES FOUNDATION: $1,075,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE MALALA FUND: $1,000,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOTRE DAME DE NAMUR UNIVERSITY: $1,000,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetMARYCREST MANOR: $1,000,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetCORO SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWINDMILL SCHOOL INC: $975,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetMORGAN STANLEY GLOBAL IMPACT FUNDING TRUST INC: $947,281 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTaos Sports Associates Inc: $945,000 over 8y, 40% of budget
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.

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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA51.7× affinity38 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture · Koret Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Santa Barbara Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Philanthropic Ventures 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 334 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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