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The Henderson Family 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.

$4.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.

Education$4.8MArts & Culture$2.3MPhilanthropy$2.2MPublic Benefit$510kCommunity Improvement$475kHealth$388kCivil Rights$341kEnvironment$260kOther$0
02FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $272k
  • $50k–250k29 grants · $2.9M
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$50,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$110M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION$500,000
CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC$500,000
ILLUMINATE THE ARTS$250,000
LOCUS SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION$200,000
GIRLS WHO CODE INC$200,000
VOTEAMERICA INC$160,000
PROJECT TF$150,000
WOMEN DONORS NETWORK$150,000
PENNSYLVANIA VOICE$150,000
TIDES FOUNDATION$150,000
CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUM$141,430
CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUM$135,000
INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN FRANCISCO$125,000
MK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE$100,000
TURN 2 U INC$100,000
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–24, $250k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $200k → 17%GIRLS WHO CODE INC: $50k → 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

NH
WA
NY
OR
PA
CA
VA
DC
HI
GA
TX

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.

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 10% of The Henderson Family 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. Read by recipient address, 78% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 69% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

The Henderson Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 7.6% 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.0M · 29 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
16

Total granted

$9.0M
$600k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+23%

Still filing today

97%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $950k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationCivil RightsHealthYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • CD
    CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $4.2M · revenue +28%
  • CO
    CORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS
    3× · 2022–2024 · $771k · revenue +4%
  • WD
    WOMEN DONORS NETWORK
    3× · 2022–2024 · $420k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • BU
    BROWN UNIVERSITY OF PROVIDENCE
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE
    one grant, 2022 · $75k · revenue +1%
  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF CONCORDIA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $52k · revenue +111%

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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
2
Kqed Inc

See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…

Arts & Culture
3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
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
5
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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6
International Women's Forum Inc

The mission of the international women's forum is to advance women's leadership worldwide. iwf takes direct action to achieve our mission in three important ways. connect: our convenings provide networking and cutting-edge content…

Education
7
San Francisco Film Society

SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…

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8
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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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
Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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11
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
12
Internet Society Foundation

At the internet society foundation, we focus on funding initiatives that strengthen the internet in function and reach so that it can effectively serve all people. our work advances the vision of the internet society (isoc): the internet…

International

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Empowr Co. 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 backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyWomen & Girls Leadership De…Local History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsCancer Support ServicesYouth Development ServicesPregnancy Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Community College Foundatio…Community Arts CentersIndependent K-12 Schools
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 24 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%6%<5yr15%15%5–10yr20%25%10–20yr17%29%20–35yr11%19%35–55yr13%6%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%5%<5yr15%8%5–10yr20%26%10–20yr17%48%20–35yr11%12%35–55yr13%0%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/57
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,921

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

56 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 56 of the 64 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
56/56
Grantees still filing
27/56
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INC — $4,175,000 · OtherCHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INCLOCUS SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION INC — $399,000 · OtherLOCUS SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION INCGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $250,000 · OtherTURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE — $225,000 · Other+22 more — $1,234,529 · Other+22 moreCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $771,430 · Arts & CultureCORPORATION OF T…INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN FRANCISCO — $450,000 · Arts & CultureINSTITUTE OF CON…ILLUMINATE THE ARTS — $250,000 · Arts & CultureILLUMINATE THE A…THE 19TH NEWS — $90,000 · Arts & CultureHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $75,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more — $165,000 · Arts & Culture+5 moreCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $555,346 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US…THE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE SAN FRANCISC…WOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $420,000 · PhilanthropyWOMEN DONORS NET…TIDES FOUNDATION — $175,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION+4 more — $90,000 · PhilanthropyPROJECT TF — $250,000 · EducationThe OpEd Project Public Knowledge Fund Inc — $225,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $150,000 · EducationEMPOWR CO — $100,000 · EducationIGNITE — $75,000 · EducationAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — $51,513 · EducationTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $50,000 · Education+1 more — $10,000 · EducationVOTEAMERICA — $210,000 · Civil RightsPENNSYLVANIA VOICE — $150,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $75,000 · Civil RightsFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND — $50,000 · Civil Rights+2 more — $26,000 · Civil RightsNEW VENTURE FUND — $300,000 · EnvironmentNEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC — $210,000 · EnvironmentCOLORSTACK INC — $125,000 · Community ImprovementBayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT — $100,000 · Community ImprovementNORTH MAIN STREET FUND — $100,000 · Community Improvement
Other$6,283,529Arts & Culture$1,801,430Philanthropy$1,740,346Education$911,513Civil Rights$611,000Environment$510,000Community Improvement$325,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INC — $4,175,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $771,430 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC — $555,346 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN FRANCISCO — $450,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetWOMEN DONORS NETWORK — $420,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetLOCUS SCIENCE FICTION FOUNDATION INC — $399,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $300,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetILLUMINATE THE ARTS — $250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetPROJECT TF — $250,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetGIRLS WHO CODE INC — $250,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe OpEd Project Public Knowledge Fund Inc — $225,000 over 2y, 44% of budgetTURN 2 U INC dba THE LAST MILE — $225,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetVOTEAMERICA — $210,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetNEXTGEN CLIMATE AMERICA INC — $210,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetMK LEVEL PLAYING FIELD INSTITUTE — $200,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetRESOLVE TO SAVE LIVES INC — $200,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDRUM MAJOR INSTITUTE — $150,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPENNSYLVANIA VOICE — $150,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN'S FOUNDATION OF CALIFORNIA — $125,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCOLORSTACK INC — $125,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetYOUTH RADIO — $125,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetBayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT — $100,000 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEMPOWR CO — $100,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetNORTH MAIN STREET FUND — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE 19TH NEWS — $90,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetIGNITE — $75,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHEADLANDS CENTER FOR THE ARTS — $75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — $51,513 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHE ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTECHUPLIFT — $50,000 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetTHE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART LOS ANGELES — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentral Valley Community Foundation A Corporation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUS FOR DEMOCRACY FUND — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBAY AREA DISCOVERY MUSEUM — $45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGOLDEN GATE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMENS MEDIA CENTER INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetVENTURE STRATEGIES FOR HEALTH AND DEVELOPMENT DBA OASIS — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco CASA — $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLAVENDER YOUTH RECREATION & INFORMATION CENTER INC LYRIC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe British Benevolent Society of California Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 6.8% 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.

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 San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…Tides FoundationMarin Community Found…Jewish Community Fede…The William & Flora H…ImpactassetsincGs Donor Advised Phil…The Battery FoundationMcNabb FoundationNEO Philanthropy IncAmalgamated Charitabl…
The San Francisco FoundationCA34.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Battery Foundation · McNabb Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation 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 Henderson Family 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 · 00%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Crossroads Creative & Performing Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
12report 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

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.

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 64 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.

Source object · view filing

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