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The Markkula Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$485k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$275k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Education$963kRecreation & Sports$420kPublic Benefit$402kHealth$184kArts & Culture$106kEnvironment$100kCrime & Legal$95kHuman Services$80kOther$0
02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $84k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $111k
  • $250k+1 grant · $275k
$10,250
Median grant
1
States reached
$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CRISTO REY SAN JOSE JESUIT HIGH SCHOOL$275,000
San Francisco 49er Foundation$111,200
Santa Clara University$43,500
INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE$20,000
RESURGE INTERNATIONAL$10,250
MONTALVO ASSOCIATION$10,000
MILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$5,000
JW HOUSE$5,000
Computer History Museum$4,096
CityTeam Ministries$1,200
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 (FY21–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Child Bridge Inc: $500 → 18%Avenidas: $1k → 8%The Heritage Foundation: $25k → 12%Wounded Warrior Project: $5k → 14%Avenidas: $1k → 8%Avenidas: $1k → 8%Recovery Cafe San Jose: $10k → 8%Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence: $3k → 8%Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence: $3k → 8%Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence: $3k → 8%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

AK
ID
MT
NY
NV
IN
CA
VA
MD
KS
TN
NC
DC
FL

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.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.1M · 35 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
16

Total granted

$2.1M
$223k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
0%

Still filing today

80%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalPublic BenefitOther

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

  • CR
    CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL
    5× · 2021–2025 · $601k · revenue +54%
  • JUDICIAL WATCH INC
    3× · 2021–2024 · $150k · revenue +3%
  • PO
    PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE
    3× · 2023–2025 · $116k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • PBS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +159%
  • DE
    DON'T EVER GIVE UP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +44%
  • MC
    MONTEREY COUNTY FAIR HERITAGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue -76%

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
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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2
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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3
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
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
7
Augustana College

Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…

Education
8
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Foreign Policy Research Institute

The foreign policy research institute (frpi) is dedicated to producing the highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on crucial foreign policy and national security challenges facing the united states. we educate…

International
11
Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc

Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…

Education
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation and 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.

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 backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Community Arts CentersDomestic Violence ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Independent K-12 SchoolsEnvironmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsMilitary Veterans SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%15%10–20yr17%28%20–35yr11%39%35–55yr13%17%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%0%5–10yr20%44%10–20yr17%22%20–35yr11%26%35–55yr13%9%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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%0/49
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,929

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.

04the grantee network

47 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. 47 of the 55 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
29/47
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL — $601,000 · EducationCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOLPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $115,500 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CL…THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $70,000 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND …+3 more — $26,000 · EducationSan Francisco 49er Foundation — $394,700 · OtherSan Francisco 49er FoundationTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIA — $100,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CALIFORNIAEL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $64,000 · OtherEL CAMINO HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE — $45,000 · OtherTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTEAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $30,000 · OtherNPOWER INC — $30,000 · Other+21 more — $177,475 · Other+21 moreJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $150,000 · Public BenefitJUDICIAL WATCH I…Leadership Institute — $100,000 · Public BenefitLeadership Insti…CATO INSTITUTE — $60,000 · Public BenefitCATO INSTITUTETHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Public BenefitTHE HERITAGE FOU…CERTELL INC — $150,000 · InternationalRESURGE INTERNATIONAL — $30,250 · InternationalTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS — $10,000 · InternationalCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM — $54,096 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $25,000 · Arts & CultureMONTALVO ASSOCIATION — $20,000 · Arts & CultureStanford Jazz Workshop — $10,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more — $1,100 · Arts & CulturePacific Legal Foundation — $75,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 · Crime & LegalNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER — $5,000 · Crime & LegalDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC — $50,000 · HealthJW HOUSE — $20,000 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 · HealthSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 · HealthMILLS-PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — $5,000 · HealthEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $5,000 · Health
Education$812,500Other$841,175Public Benefit$360,000International$190,250Arts & Culture$160,196Crime & Legal$95,000Health$90,000

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 budgetCRISTO REY SAN JOSE HIGH SCHOOL — $601,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCERTELL INC — $150,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetJUDICIAL WATCH INC — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $115,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLeadership Institute — $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Legal Foundation — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $70,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATO INSTITUTE — $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM — $54,096 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPBS FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDON'T EVER GIVE UP INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE INDEPENDENT INSTITUTE — $45,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRESURGE INTERNATIONAL — $30,250 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAmericans for Prosperity Foundation — $30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNPOWER INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSUN VALLEY SKI EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMONTEREY COUNTY FAIR HERITAGE FOUNDATION — $25,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTHUNDERBIRD LODGE PRESERVATION SOCIETY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJW HOUSE — $20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC — $19,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL RIGHT TO WORK LEGAL DEFENSE AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy — $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStanford Jazz Workshop — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetRecovery Cafe San Jose — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRenown Health Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INSTITUTE OF WORLD POLITICS — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $9,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALASKA RAPTOR REHABILITATION CENTER — $8,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL LEGAL AND POLICY CENTER — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $4,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAVENIDAS — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOODSIDE-PORTOLA VALLEY FIRE PROTECTION FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFILOLI CENTER — $1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHP 11-99 FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD BRIDGE INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $75 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Marin Community Found…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…Bny Mellon Charitable…Vanguard Charitable E…Sosj Knights Hospital…The Valley FoundationThe George and Judy M…Farrington Historical…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA24.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Sosj Knights Hospitaller Priory of the Western USA · The Valley Foundation · The George and Judy Marcus Family Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation

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 Markkula 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%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
11report 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.

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 55 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines