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The Pincus Family Fund at a glance

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The Pincus Family Fund

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.

$1.0M
Granted FY2023
15
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$230k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead

Read this first · the figures below need context

92% of The Pincus Family Fund’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Jewish Community Federation Of San Francisco The Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2023, the last year The Pincus Family Fund named its own grantees at scale: 12 organizations, $1M. It is dated, not current.

Organizations named directly on the return

2
’21
3
’22
12
’23
6
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Philanthropy$2.7MEducation$2.0MArts & Culture$890kHousing & Shelter$161kHealth$140kInternational$135kReligion$100kHuman Services$90kOther$0
02FY2023 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k2 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $121k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $910k
$50,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$100M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL FILM PRESERVE LTD$230,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF S F MARIN PENINSULA$220,000
AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC$100,000
MAPS$100,000
FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC$100,000
GIVEPOWER FOUNDATION$55,000
CAMP KISS$55,000
VOTINGWORKS$50,000
BOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST INC$36,247
AMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC$25,000
A WIDER BRIDGE$25,000
SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY$25,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC$10,000
KQED INC$5,000
FRACTURED ATLAS INC$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–24, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%13THTRIBEORG: $60k → 8%GIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $55k → 10%COMMONWEAL: $5k → 8%PARENT SERVICES PROJECT INC: $25k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
PA
CA
CO
MD
DE
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 63% of The Pincus Family Fund’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Pincus Family Fundlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

54%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$916k · 3 repeat orgs$795k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 3 still active in FY2023, 0 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call). Read against FY2023, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

$916k
$170k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-31%
+142%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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 & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalCivil RightsFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TN
    The National Film Preserve Ltd
    3× · 2022–2024 · $690k · revenue +40%
  • BC
    BOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    2× · 2022–2023 · $161k · revenue -31%
  • SS
    Shipyard Studios
    2× · 2023–2024 · $65k · revenue -69%

Funded once

  • CE
    CONGREGATION EMANU-EL
    one grant, 2022 · $100k
  • NM
    NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE-NORTHWESTERN MEMO
    one grant, 2022 · $40k
  • PS
    PARENT SERVICES PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -11%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Activate Global Inc

Activate empowers scientists to reinvent the world by bringing their research to market. activate partners with u.s. based funders, research institutions, and other pillars of the hard technology community to help entrepreneurial…

Environment
2
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
3
Future 500

See attached statementprimary missionfuture 500 builds trust between corporations, advocates, investors, and philanthropists to advance business as a force for good. we are experts in stakeholder engagement with over 25 years of experience…

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4
Sf Partnership

SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…

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5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

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

Education
6
Observer Research Foundation America

Organization mission the observer research foundation america orf america is an independent, non-partisan, and nonprofit organization in washington dc dedicated to addressing policy challenges facing the united states, india, and their…

International
7
Breakthrough Energy Foundation

Working with our world-class network of innovators, business and industry leaders, and policy experts, we accelerate the innovation of climate technologies at every stage - from discovery to development to deployment.

Public Benefit
8
Work on Climate

Supporting industry transformation towards climate-positive and make green careers transitions and driving the adoption of green workforce development practices broadly.

Environment
9
Advance Sf

Advance SF is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco through education, advocacy, and research. The…

Human Services
10
California Institute for BioMedical Research

Our mission is to build a unique institute that bridges basic research and drug discovery, and that attracts the best and brightest scientists, physicians and students to work together synergistically to find cures for neglected human…

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11
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
12
Open Transformation Lab Inc

The missions is to provide information and resources to counter disinformation, propaganda, and offer a window to trusted content about the events that are going on in the Middle East.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is VotingWorks. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 27 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
11/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $2,519,488 · PhilanthropyJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO T…Social Impact Fund: $100,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $25,000 · PhilanthropyTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNS…+1 more: $25,717 · EducationThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $690,250 · Arts & CultureThe National Fi…FRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF UNIT…Shipyard Studios: $65,000 · Arts & CultureShipyard Studio…+2 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureCONGREGATION EMANU-EL: $100,000 · OtherMAPS: $100,000 · OtherNORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL HEALTHCARE-NORTHWESTERN MEMO: $40,000 · OtherVotingWorks: $50,000 · OtherA WIDER BRIDGE: $25,000 · OtherBig Green: $37,500 · OtherSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $25,000 · OtherNEW VENTURE FUND: $50,000 · OtherBURNING MAN PROJECT: $25,000 · Other+1 more: $2,000 · OtherBOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $161,247 · Housing & Shelter13THTRIBEORG: $60,000 · Human ServicesGIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $55,000 · Human ServicesPARENT SERVICES PROJECT: $25,000 · Human ServicesCOMMONWEAL: $5,000 · Human ServicesAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $125,000 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $10,000 · International
Philanthropy$2,644,488Education$2,025,717Arts & Culture$865,250Other$454,500Housing & Shelter$161,247Human Services$145,000International$135,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $2,519,488 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: $2,000,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe National Film Preserve Ltd: $690,250 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetBOLINAS COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $161,247 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetAMIGOS OF COSTA RICA INC: $125,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF UNITED HATZALAH INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSocial Impact Fund: $100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetShipyard Studios: $65,000 over 2y, 12% of budget13THTRIBEORG: $60,000 over 1y, 66% of budgetGIVEPOWER FOUNDATION: $55,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVotingWorks: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBig Green: $37,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $25,717 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURNING MAN PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA WIDER BRIDGE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENT SERVICES PROJECT: $25,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMONWEAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATUREX FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…Jewish Community Fede…National Philanthropi…Marin Community Found…American Endowment Fo…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA18.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · National Philanthropic Trust · Marin Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Pincus Family Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pincus Family Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 27 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

    How this is measured
    Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

    Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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