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The Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation at a glance

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The Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation

The specific purpose of this corporation is to support the silicon valley community foundation by engaging in the same charitable purposes as the silicon valley community foundation.

$4.6M
Granted FY2022
44
Grants FY2022
7
States reached
$1.1M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2022.

Environment$7.8MEducation$7.1MCommunity Improvement$3.7MArts & Culture$2.8MPhilanthropy$1.5MHuman Services$725kSocial Science$575kAnimals$244kOther$0
02FY2022 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2022

  • $10k–50k21 grants · $430k
  • $50k–250k20 grants · $2.3M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.8M
$75,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Silicon Valley Community Foundation$1,125,591
Massachusetts Institute of Technology$450,000
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University$251,000
Children Now$205,000
EdSource Inc$175,000
Public Policy Institute of California$150,000
Hawaii Community Foundation$135,000
Sustainable Conservation$125,000
Resources Legacy Fund$125,000
American Institutes for Research in the Behavioral Sciences$125,000
The Nature Conservancy of California$111,000
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$110,000
Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated$110,000
Ocean Conservancy Inc$100,000
Conservation International Foundation$100,000
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 (FY17–22, $733k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Children Now: $205k → 10%Children Now: $180k → 10%Children Now: $125k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $100k → 10%CHILDREN NOW: $100k → 10%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $8k → 8%Young Mens Christian Association Of Silicon Valley: $8k → 8%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $8k → 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.
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$15M · 43 repeat orgs$855k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2022, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
15

Total granted

$15M
$685k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+109%

Still filing today

91%
73%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $170k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationAnimalsPhilanthropyHuman ServicesOther
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

  • TS
    THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY
    6× · 2017–2022 · $1.3M · revenue +56%
  • PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA
    6× · 2017–2022 · $840k · revenue +6%
  • MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $730k · revenue +105%

Funded once

  • W
    WESTED
    one grant, 2019 · $175k
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $110k
  • SM
    San Mateo County Office of Education
    one grant, 2020 · $75k
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
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
2
California Institute for Biodiversity

Create and publish educational materials, conduct professional development, promote awareness, and sponsor research on the spectacular biological diversity of the State of CA.

Education
3
California Ocean Science Trust

California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…

Environment
4
Chile-California Council

The Chile-California Council is a San Francisco-based nonprofit dedicated to developing and promoting joint endeavors and cooperative relations between Chile and California, as well as individuals, legal entities and other institutions in…

International
5
Friends of the Earth

Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…

Environment
6
Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation

The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.

Animals
7
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
8
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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9
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.

—
10
California Institute of Environmental Studies

The institute is dedicated to scientific research, the results of which are used to promote public awareness and education in the areas of conservation biology and ecology,including the wise use of natural resources.

Animals
11
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Science Friday Initiative Inc; the most unlike its peers is Computer History Museum. 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

58 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. 58 of the 65 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/58
Grantees still filing
46/58
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $5,034,341 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community Fou…The Pew Charitable Trusts: $600,000 · PhilanthropyThe Pew Charitable Trusts+5 more: $641,000 · Philanthropy+5 moreMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,164,100 · EducationMassachusetts Institu…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,281,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES…EDSOURCE INC: $675,000 · EducationEDSOURCE INCUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $225,000 · EducationPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $200,000 · Education+4 more: $256,000 · EducationPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $727,000 · EnvironmentPENINSULA OPEN SPAC…RESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $625,000 · EnvironmentRESOURCES LEGACY FU…ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $550,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTAL DEFEN…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $550,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOURCES D…OCEAN CONSERVANCY: $500,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSERVANCYSustainable Conservation: $450,000 · EnvironmentSustainable Conserv…CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $250,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATION INTERN…NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $150,000 · Environment+8 more: $430,000 · Environment+8 moreTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA: $1,176,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANC…PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA: $840,000 · OtherPUBLIC POLICY INSTITU…MILLS COLLEGE: $605,000 · OtherMILLS COLLEGEPIVOT LEARNING: $550,000 · OtherPIVOT LEARNINGSAN MATEO COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATION: $202,000 · OtherWESTED: $174,900 · OtherAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $575,000 · OtherAMERICAN INSTITUTES F…+11 more: $615,950 · Other+11 moreTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY: $1,312,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATREWORKS S…KQED INC: $850,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $300,000 · Arts & CultureTHE TECH INTER…OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $207,000 · Arts & CultureOREGON SHAKESP…CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $200,000 · Arts & CultureCALIFORNIA ACA…THE EXPLORATORIUM: $200,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EXPLORATOR…+2 more: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $730,000 · AnimalsHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $94,000 · AnimalsTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $80,000 · AnimalsWILDAID INC: $60,000 · Animals+1 more: $10,000 · AnimalsCHILDREN NOW: $710,000 · Human Services+1 more: $22,500 · Human Services
Philanthropy$6,275,341Education$4,801,100Environment$4,232,000Other$4,738,850Arts & Culture$3,089,000Animals$974,000Human Services$732,500

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 budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $5,034,341 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology: $2,164,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY: $1,312,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $1,281,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $850,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA: $840,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetMONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION: $730,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $727,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetCHILDREN NOW: $710,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetEDSOURCE INC: $675,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetRESOURCES LEGACY FUND: $625,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetMILLS COLLEGE: $605,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetThe Pew Charitable Trusts: $600,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES: $575,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $550,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPIVOT LEARNING: $550,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $550,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $500,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSustainable Conservation: $450,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $300,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $250,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION: $225,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetOREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC: $207,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFull Circle Fund: $200,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $200,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION: $150,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPIE RANCH: $145,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $135,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMarine Science Institute: $105,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE: $100,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY INITIATIVES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY: $94,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER: $80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TOWER FOUNDATION OF SAN JOSE STATE UNIVERSITY: $75,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $75,000 over 6y, 5.4% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS EDUCATION FUND: $60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSANTA CLARA VALLEY BIRD ALLIANCE: $60,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetWILDAID INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2: $56,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetCalifornians Dedicated to Education Foundation: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Education Trust Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATUREBRIDGE: $35,000 over 2y, 0.2% 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.

  • Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Massachusetts Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
  • Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN NOW ↗
  • Who funds EDSOURCE INC ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
  • Who funds MILLS COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds The Pew Charitable Trusts ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN INSTITUTES FOR RESEARCH IN THE BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds PIVOT LEARNING ↗
  • Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds Sustainable Conservation ↗
  • Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA BARBARA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds OREGON SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Full Circle Fund ↗
  • Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS IN SCHOOL INNOVATION ↗
  • Who funds PIE RANCH ↗
  • Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Marine Science Institute ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL EQUITY PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds THE CORAL REEF ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗

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 Commun…The William & Flora H…The David and Lucile …Gordon E and Betty I …Elbridge Stuart Found…Esb Charitable Founda…The California Endowm…The San Francisco Fou…Gates FoundationCalifornia Community …Jewish Community Fede…Evelyn and Walter Haa…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA37.6× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Esb Charitable Foundation · The California Endowment · The San Francisco Foundation · Gates Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund

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 Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Dirk and Charlene Kabcenell Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
  • Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 65 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2023) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home