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The Ghielmetti Family Foundation at a glance

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The Ghielmetti Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$268k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2024 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$173kEducation$100kFood & Nutrition$50kPhilanthropy$50kCommunity Improvement$50kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $3k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $215k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New California Coalition Foundation$50,000
Jewish Community Federation Endowme$25,000
Spark SF Public Schools$25,000
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art$25,000
UC Berkeley Foundation$25,000
Alameda County Community Food Bank$25,000
San Francisco Symphony$25,000
De La Salle High School of Concord$25,000
San Francisco Ballet$15,000
KQED$15,000
Martin Kauffman One Hundred Club$10,000
StoryCorps Inc$2,500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY24–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 1% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%De La Salle High School of Concord: $25k → 9%UC Berkeley Foundation: $25k → 10%New California Coalition Foundation: $50k → 10%StoryCorps Inc: $3k → 20%De La Salle High School of Concord: $25k → 9%UC Berkeley Foundation: $25k → 10%San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $25k → 10%Martin Kauffman One Hundred Club: $10k → 10%San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: $25k → 10%San Francisco Symphony: $25k → 10%Spark SF Public Schools: $25k → 10%San Francisco Symphony: $25k → 10%Spark SF Public Schools: $25k → 10%San Francisco Ballet: $15k → 10%San Francisco-Marin Food Bank: $25k → 10%Stern Grove Festival Association: $15k → 10%Jewish Community Federation Endowme: $25k → 10%Jewish Community Federation Endowme: $25k → 10%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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$330k · 7 repeat orgs$143k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
2

Total granted

$330k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+36%

Still filing today

57%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • SS
    SPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +10%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART
    2× · 2024–2025 · $50k · revenue +57%
  • KI
    KQED INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $30k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -8%
  • SG
    Stern Grove Festival Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +36%
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
San Francisco Jazz Organization

The san francisco jazz organization (the organization) is a recognized international leader in jazz creation, presentation, and education. the organization explores the full spectrum of jazz, from the music's origins in the african…

Arts & Culture
2
San Francisco Challenge dba AmericaOne
Recreation & Sports
3
San Francisco Opera Association

We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.

Arts & Culture
4
Sonoma Botanical Garden
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5
San Francisco Art Studio Foundation
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6
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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7
San Francisco Performances Inc

SFP presents internationally acclaimed and emerging performing artists, introduces innovative programs, and builds new and diversified audiences for the arts through education and outreach activities.

Arts & Culture
8
San Jose Museum of Art Association

Nurture empathy and connection by engaging communities with socially relevant contemporary art

Arts & Culture
9
San Francisco Filipino Cultural Center
Arts & Culture
10
San Francisco City Guides

Since 1978, our mission has been to preserve and perpetuate San Francisco's history and folklore and to celebrate its rich history of cultural diversity.

Human Services
11
San Francisco Association of Realtors Foundation
Philanthropy
12
San Francisco Basque Folkloric Groups
Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is San Francisco Symphony; the most unlike its peers is San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. 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

10 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. 10 of the 14 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
5/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

DE LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL OF CONCORD INC: $50,000 · OtherDE LA SALLE HIGH SCHOOL OF CONCORD INCUC Berkeley Foundation: $50,000 · OtherUC Berkeley FoundationJewish Community Federation Endowme: $50,000 · OtherJewish Community Federation EndowmeSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $25,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANKALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $25,000 · OtherALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANKMartin Kauffman One Hundred Club: $10,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONYSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ARTKQED INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $15,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATIONStern Grove Festival Association: $15,000 · Arts & CultureStern Grove Festival Association+1 more: $2,500 · Arts & CultureSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $50,000 · EducationSPARK SF PU…NEW CALIFORNIA COALITION FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Community ImprovementNEW CALIFOR…
Other$210,000Arts & Culture$162,500Education$50,000Community Improvement$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPARK SF PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStern Grove Festival Association: $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

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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 Ghielmetti Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ghielmetti Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%1%3%4%5%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–5%
    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 14 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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