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The David and Lucile Packard Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$350M
Granted FY2024still arriving
1,029
Grants FY2024still arriving
37
States reached
$55M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.

Environment$719MAnimals$500MHealth$293MPhilanthropy$289MEducation$195MInternational$168MCivil Rights$106MScience & Tech$90MOther$0
02FY2024 · 1029 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k68 grants · $1.9M
  • $50k–250k650 grants · $82M
  • $250k+307 grants · $266M
$150,000
Median grant
37
States reached
$8.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute$54,926,032
Lucile Packard Foundation for Children's Health$20,000,000
ClimateWorks Foundation$10,500,000
ClimateWorks Foundation$10,000,000
Climate Breakthrough Inc$7,500,000
Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation$5,000,000
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc$5,000,000
Resources Legacy Fund$3,000,000
American Online Giving Foundation Inc$2,980,987
IPAS$2,000,000
Island Conservation$1,700,000
MomsRising Education Fund$1,700,000
Climate Lead Inc$1,666,667
Democracy Forward Foundation$1,500,000
Defending American Values Coalition$1,500,000
02The need
03

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.

Your US giving — 90% of grant dollars ($2.4B). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 10% that went abroad ($270M) is mapped below.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $61.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FIRST CHILDREN'S FINANCE: $400k → 11%ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS: $530k → 5%Pro Choice Missouri Foundation: $400k → 21%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM INC: $525k → 17%LAUNDRYCARES FOUNDATION: $400k → 7%We the Veterans Foundation: $600k → 6%ALLIANCE FOR EARLY SUCCESS: $450k → 5%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $540k → 12%BRIGHT BY THREE: $500k → 12%BRIGHT BEGINNINGS: $500k → 12%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $1.1M → 23%Women's Foundation of Mississippi: $850k → 23%CALIFORNIA CHILD CARE RESOURCE AND REFERRAL NETWORK: $500k → 10%WOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF MISSISSIPPI: $800k → 23%Women's Foundation of Mississippi: $500k → 23%Climate Breakthrough Inc: $7.5M → 10%Climate Breakthrough Inc: $6.0M → 10%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $600k → 23%Climate Breakthrough Inc: $3.5M → 10%TEEN HEALTH MISSISSIPPI: $600k → 23%Climate Breakthrough Inc: $884k → 10%THE CHILDREN'S PARTNERSHIP: $550k → 14%The Children's Partnership: $400k → 14%Housing California Inc: $500k → 12%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $1.8M → 17%ZERO TO THREE NATIONAL CENTER FOR INFANTS TODDLERS AND FAMILIES: $1.0M → 14%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $1.4M → 8%CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF SANTA CLARA COUNTY: $550k → 8%Catholic Charities of Santa Clara County: $500k → 8%CHILDREN NOW: $675k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $675k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $625k → 10%Children Now: $625k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $625k → 10%CLIMATE BREAKTHROUGH INC: $6.0M → 10%First Focus on Children: $1.2M → 14%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1.0M → 10%FIRST FOCUS: $1.0M → 14%METRICS FOR MANAGEMENT: $854k → 10%Latino Community Foundation: $750k → 10%DOCTORS OF THE WORLD: $800k → 17%DOCTORS OF THE WORLD-USA INC: $800k → 17%HISPANIC ACCESS FOUNDATION: $523k → 14%First Focus: $500k → 14%FIRST FOCUS: $500k → 14%FIRST FOCUS: $500k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $1.6M → 10%BLUE MERIDIAN PARTNERS INC: $2.1M → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US — 10% of all-years giving ($270M)

44 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
Indonesia$56M · 298 grants
Ethiopia$34M · 123 grants
United Kingdom$33M · 128 grants
Mexico$21M · 173 grants
Netherlands$20M · 30 grants
Japan$17M · 56 grants
India$17M · 44 grants
Chile$7.9M · 78 grants
Switzerland$7.4M · 27 grants
Canada$7.3M · 39 grants

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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of The David and Lucile Packard Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The David and Lucile Packard Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 10% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2B · 1169 repeat orgs$200M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

1169 repeat relationships — 538 still active in FY2024, 631 since wound down; 190 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1169
583

Total granted

$2.2B
$146M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+22%

Still filing today

69%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54M 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
EducationEnvironmentArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther

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

  • MB
    Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute
    7× · 2018–2024 · $435M · revenue +62% · 84% of their budget
  • CF
    CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · $184M · revenue +115% · 35% of their budget
  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    6× · 2018–2024 · $111M · revenue +19% · 32% of their budget

Funded once

  • RC
    RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC
    one grant, 2023 · $25M · revenue -42%
  • AH
    AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC
    one grant, 2021 · $8.0M · revenue -52% · 36% of their budget
  • UB
    US-Mexico Border Philanthropy Partnership
    one grant, 2021 · $2.5M · revenue -13% · 85% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
2
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
3
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
4
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
5
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment
6
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
7
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
8
The American Institute of Architects California

The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.

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9
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
10
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
11
Public Advocates Inc

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,…

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12
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

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…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Training and Research Associates and the most unlike its peers is Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Health Access Advocacy and …Christian Missionary Organi…Affordable Housing Construc…Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Addiction Recovery ServicesJewish Community Organizati…Domestic Violence ServicesCommunity Food PantriesUnited Way AffiliatesLgbtq+ Community SupportCommunity FoundationsElementary Literacy TutoringPublic Library OperationsEquine Therapy ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterCancer Support ServicesVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Developmental Disabilities …School Parent OrganizationsYouth Sports ProgramsYmca Youth DevelopmentDance Arts OrganizationsYouth Mentoring ProgramsYouth Development CentersLocal Food System Organizat…Food Banks and PantriesIndependent K-12 SchoolsYouth Development ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community Arts CentersLocal History MuseumsSchool District FoundationsSenior Support ServicesFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Affordable Housing Developm…Immigrant Worker SupportCommunity College Foundatio…Pregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 29 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%3%<5yr15%10%5–10yr20%20%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%23%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%2%<5yr15%7%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr17%21%20–35yr11%39%35–55yr13%13%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%27/1,926
the rest of the field
14%
25,993/185,052

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

1252 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. 1252 of the 2,000 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

123
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
282
Early backer (in before they grew)
1231/1252
Grantees still filing
799/1252
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute — $434,992,899 · OtherMonterey Bay Aquarium Research InstituteTHE ENERGY FOUNDATION — $44,630,000 · OtherMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $42,411,472 · Other+97 more — $416,232,260 · Other+97 moreROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $109,339,663 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHIL…RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC — $25,000,000 · PhilanthropyRF CATALYTIC CAP…CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND — $20,060,000 · PhilanthropyCARING FOR COLOR…Solidaire Network Inc — $20,000,000 · PhilanthropySolidaire Networ…UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION — $13,850,000 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Foundation — $10,359,600 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUND — $10,025,520 · Philanthropy+17 more — $69,809,669 · Philanthropy+17 moreCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION — $184,345,050 · Science & TechCLIMATEWORK…AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE — $10,025,000 · Science & Tech+1 more — $4,920,000 · Science & TechRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $47,803,500 · EnvironmentRESOURCES …NEW VENTURE FUND — $25,074,890 · EnvironmentNEW VENTUR…MULTIPLIER — $15,000,162 · EnvironmentMULTIPLIERWINDWARD FUND — $13,978,500 · EnvironmentWINDWARD F…ISLAND CONSERVATION — $10,560,158 · EnvironmentISLAND CON…GREENPEACE FUND INC — $8,914,785 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $6,501,899 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $6,298,300 · Environment+11 more — $39,495,364 · Environment+11 moreLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $110,624,448 · HealthLUCILE PA…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $11,322,843 · HealthPLANNED P…PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $8,647,577 · HealthIBIS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC — $6,506,900 · HealthWORLDBEING INC — $6,350,000 · Health+10 more — $28,713,103 · Health+10 moreTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $11,441,189 · EducationJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $10,939,891 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $8,081,458 · EducationGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $7,345,000 · EducationCornell University — $7,182,243 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $6,980,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $6,945,050 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $6,943,397 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $6,398,814 · EducationTHE OAKLAND PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND — $5,294,273 · EducationFRIENDS OF EDUCARE CALIFORNIA AT SILICON VALLEY — $3,910,741 · Education+9 more — $25,240,850 · EducationIPAS — $17,220,315 · InternationalAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) — $8,000,000 · InternationalDKT INTERNATIONAL INC — $6,971,000 · InternationalCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $6,675,000 · InternationalPATH — $4,754,000 · InternationalPATHFINDER INTERNATIONAL — $4,450,948 · InternationalENGENDERHEALTH INC — $4,157,000 · InternationalPANORAMA GLOBAL — $3,840,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC — $3,200,000 · InternationalWORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE — $2,920,000 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION — $2,812,446 · International+8 more — $18,512,797 · International
Other$938,266,631Philanthropy$278,444,452Science & Tech$199,290,050Environment$173,627,558Health$172,164,871Education$106,702,906International$83,513,506

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute — $434,992,899 over 7y, 84% of budgetCLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION — $184,345,050 over 7y, 35% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH — $110,624,448 over 6y, 32% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $109,339,663 over 7y, 5.3% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND — $47,803,500 over 7y, 24% of budgetTHE ENERGY FOUNDATION — $44,630,000 over 6y, 9.9% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION — $42,411,472 over 7y, 6.4% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $25,074,890 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetRF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC — $25,000,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetCLIMATE BREAKTHROUGH INC — $23,903,061 over 3y, 50% of budgetCARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND — $20,060,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetSolidaire Network Inc — $20,000,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetIPAS — $17,220,315 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetMULTIPLIER — $15,000,162 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetWINDWARD FUND — $13,978,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetUNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION — $13,850,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetSUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — $12,652,569 over 7y, 38% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $11,441,189 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $11,322,843 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetJOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY — $10,939,891 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $10,872,494 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetISLAND CONSERVATION — $10,560,158 over 7y, 34% of budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation — $10,359,600 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetHOPEWELL FUND — $10,025,520 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE — $10,025,000 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $9,229,268 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetGREENPEACE FUND INC — $8,914,785 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC — $8,842,140 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC — $8,647,577 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $8,081,458 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) — $8,000,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetGEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY — $7,345,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCornell University — $7,182,243 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCapital for Good USA — $7,175,000 over 6y, 34% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $6,980,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetDKT INTERNATIONAL INC — $6,971,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA BERKELEY FOUNDATION — $6,945,050 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $6,943,397 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetGuttmacher Institute Inc — $6,675,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC — $6,675,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPOLICYLINK — $6,590,000 over 6y, 6.5% of budgetIBIS REPRODUCTIVE HEALTH INC — $6,506,900 over 6y, 29% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC — $6,501,899 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — $6,398,814 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWORLDBEING INC — $6,350,000 over 6y, 76% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $6,298,300 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities — $6,255,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC — $6,226,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budget
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 Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATEWORKS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIMATE BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
  • Who funds CARING FOR COLORADO CENTENNIAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds Solidaire Network Inc ↗
  • Who funds IPAS ↗
  • Who funds MULTIPLIER ↗
  • Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES ENERGY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ISLAND CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
  • Who funds GREENPEACE FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds AMREF HEALTH AFRICA INC INC (AMREF) ↗
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds Capital for Good USA ↗
  • Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗

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.

The Sobrato Family Fo…Sunlight GivingThe Heising-Simons Fo…The William & Flora H…Sand Hill FoundationMonterey Peninsula Fo…Los Altos Mountain Vi…Philanthropic Venture…The Grove FoundationThe Applied Materials…Atkinson FoundationWellspring Philanthro…
The Sobrato Family FoundationCA128× affinity132 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sobrato Family Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The Heising-Simons Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The Grove Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund 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 David and Lucile Packard 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Compass Science Communication Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
  • Ibis Reproductive Health Inc — 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
42report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The David and Lucile Packard Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The David and Lucile Packard 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 2000 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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