· Private foundation
The Helen Diller 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $19k
- $250k+6 grants · $45M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - SAN FRANCISCO | $25,000,000 |
| HELEN DILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $6,950,000 |
| HELEN DILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION | $6,600,000 |
| AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION | $5,000,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $950,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION | $250,000 |
| CONGREGATION EMANU-EL | $19,050 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 34% of The Helen Diller Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 85% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 75%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- THTHE HELEN DILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION7× · 2018–2024 · $86M · revenue -57% · 89% of their budget
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELEY2× · 2021–2023 · $5.4M
- GGGOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY2× · 2020–2021 · $2.5M · revenue -10%
Funded once
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $75M · revenue +51%- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA - BERKELYone grant, 2021 · $5.0M
- UBUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2019 · $5.0M
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.
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.
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How this is measured
8 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. 8 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 THE HELEN DILLER FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Helen Diller Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Helen Diller Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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