· Private foundation
The Mitchell David Solomon Foundation Inc
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Gardens of Golden Gate Park | $5,000 |
| Oxfam | $5,000 |
| UNHCR | $5,000 |
| FINCA | $5,000 |
| KIND | $3,000 |
| Doctors without borders | $3,000 |
| KQED | $2,500 |
| Galapagos Conservancy | $2,000 |
| Western Environ Law Center | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Brown University | $1,300 |
| Partners in Health | $1,000 |
| Muttville | $1,000 |
| Environmental Defense Fund | $1,000 |
| Marin Humane Society | $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 (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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 +35% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FIFINCA INTERNATIONAL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $24k · revenue +31%
EARTHJUSTICE5× · 2018–2023 · $17k · revenue +114%- SFSAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM3× · 2023–2025 · $15k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue +23%
- SSFBGSone grant, 2020 · $2k
- IIIRC - Interenational Rescue Committone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
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.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The San Francisco Bay Bird Observatory is dedicated to the conservation of birds and their habitats through science and outreach.
How this is measured
48 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. 48 of the 98 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 FINCA INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BOTANICAL GARDEN SOCIETY AT STRYBING ARBORETUM ↗
- Who funds MADRE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds GALAPAGOS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds United States Association for UNHCR ↗
- Who funds MUTTVILLE ↗
- Who funds THE CLEAR FUND ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KIND INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Bernal Heights Neighborhood Center ↗
- Who funds CAIR-FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT CENTER FOR EDUCATION & LEGAL SERVICES ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
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: Shell USA Company Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Network for Good · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 Mitchell David Solomon Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Mitchell David Solomon Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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