· Private foundation
The Middleton 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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
64% of The Middleton Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 9 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $39k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $225k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100,000 |
| UNITED STATES OLYMPIC COMMITTEE | $75,000 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $50,000 |
| SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HARWARD UNIVERSITY GIFT | $5,000 |
| VIEWPOINT SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ANANDA CHURCH | $5,000 |
| JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| RANCHO SANTE FE ROTARY | $3,700 |
| COALITION TO SALUTE AMER | $2,000 |
| THE LEAKEY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| SAN MATEO PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| CA HIGHWAY PATROL 11-99 | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +42% since the first grant, against +25% for those funded once.
36 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VEVIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $74k · revenue +38%
- SHSCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE4× · 2021–2024 · $25k · revenue +175%
- MMUTTVILLE3× · 2018–2020 · $16k · revenue +130%
Funded once
- ALAMERICAN LIVER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $5k
- FOFRIENDS OF MADERA ANIMAL SHELTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +80%
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.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
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…
To provide accurate, objective information and analysis on international strategic issues for legislators, diplomats, foreign affairs analysts, international business leaders, economists, the military, defense commentators, journalists,…
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…
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.
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…
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 59 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 Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds VIEWPOINT EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE HISTORY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds LSB LEAKEY FDTN FOR RESEARCH RELATED TO HUMAN ORIGINS BEHAVIOR AND SURVIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Pollinator Partnership ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MADERA ANIMAL SHELTER ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSBOROUGH BEAUTIFICATION FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Middleton Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Middleton Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc: 7% of income from government
How this is measured
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