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The Sharks Foundation

THE SHARKS FOUNDATION empowers youth through education and wellness programs while advancing equitable access to hockey for all.

$979k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$115k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0195% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$713kEducation$618kHuman Services$577kReligion$395kYouth Development$370kRecreation & Sports$352kEmployment$330kEnvironment$136kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 21 grants below total $869,710 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $979,300 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $109,590 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k2 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $448k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $408k
$30,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$848k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NPOWER$115,000
BRAVEN$115,000
THE PENINSULA COLLEGE FUND$115,000
SHARKS ALUMNI FOUNDATION$63,433
BILL WILSON CENTER$30,000
REBUILDING TOGETHER SILICON VALLEY$30,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB SILICON VALLEY$30,000
WALDEN WEST FOUNDATION$30,000
KIDS & ART FOUNDATION$30,000
NARIKA$30,000
SF EARTHQUAKES LGBTQ ICE HOCKEY CLUB$30,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA$30,000
LOCAL COLOR$30,000
GEORGE MARK CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL$29,715
ACCESS BOOKS BAY AREA$29,715
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 (FY23–25, $376k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 32% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $50k → 9%GIVE US THE FLOOR: $6k → 10%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $26k → 14%WAYFINDER FAMILY SERVICES: $5k → 14%BILL WILSON CENTER: $100k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $33k → 8%LOVED TWICE: $50k → 10%LOVED TWICE: $33k → 10%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY: $33k → 8%BILL WILSON CENTER: $30k → 8%MARTHA'S KITCHEN: $9k → 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.

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.0M · 33 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
48

Total granted

$3.0M
$959k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+2%

Still filing today

97%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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
HealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentEducationRecreation & SportsCommunity 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

  • BI
    BRAVEN INC
    2× · 2022–2025 · $230k · revenue +26%
  • BW
    BILL WILSON CENTER
    4× · 2022–2025 · $193k · revenue +39%
  • SA
    SHARKS ALUMNI FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $136k · revenue +209%

Funded once

  • LE
    LATINO EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $85k · revenue -21%
  • SH
    SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY
    one grant, 2024 · $56k · revenue 0%
  • AA
    AFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCYgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +37%

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
Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - SV2

Silicon Valley Social Venture Funds (SV2) mission is to unleash the talents and resources of the Bay Area community to achieve meaningful social impact. SV2 works to build the organizational capacity of our Nonprofit Grantees and Impact…

Philanthropy
2
Friends of the Children - San Francisco Bay Area

Impacting generational change by empowering youth who are facing the greatest obstacles through relationships with professional mentors - 12+ years, no matter what.

Education
3
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
4
San Francisco Casa

San Francisco CASA transforms the lives of children and youth traumatized and displaced in the foster care and related systems by providing one consistent, caring volunteer advocate, trained to address each childs needs in the court and…

Civil Rights
5
Camp Kaleidoscope

Camp Kaleidoscope, with offices on the Stanford University campus, trains student leaders to support San Francisco Bay Area children who have or had a parent with cancer. Through a free, week-long overnight camp and year-round programming,…

Human Services
6
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
7
Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
8
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
9
California School-Age Consortium Inc

The California School-Age Consortium (CalSAC) builds professional networks that provide training, leadership development and advocacy to ensure that all young people have access to high quality out-of-school time programs and to create a…

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10
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
11
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
12
Breakthrough Silicon Valley

Breakthrough silicon valley prepares highly-motivated students to become first-generation college graduates and inspires emerging leaders to be the next generation of educators and advocates for equity.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Techbridge Girls and the most unlike its peers is Access Books Bay Area. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 26 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%33%10–20yr17%24%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr12%13%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%2%<5yr14%6%5–10yr19%36%10–20yr17%30%20–35yr14%18%35–55yr12%8%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/82
the rest of the field
12%
4,710/39,952

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

74 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. 74 of the 83 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/74
Grantees still filing
44/74
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRAVEN INC — $230,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRAVEN INCSHARKS ALUMNI FOUNDATION — $135,866 · Youth DevelopmentSHARKS ALUMNI FOUN…Scientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls — $89,430 · Youth DevelopmentScientific Adventu…BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $66,360 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS AND GIRLS CLU…TEEN KITCHEN PROJECT — $40,000 · Youth DevelopmentTEEN KITCHEN PROJE…ELEVATE TUTORING INC — $25,715 · Youth Development+3 more — $45,535 · Youth Development+3 moreVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $185,700 · HealthVALLEY HEALTH FO…Kids & Art Foundation — $65,700 · HealthKids & Art Found…George Mark Childrens Fund — $59,430 · HealthGeorge Mark Chil…ONE STEP BEYOND INC — $45,621 · HealthONE STEP BEYOND …THERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA — $37,527 · HealthTHERE WITH CARE …ONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER — $28,700 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25,715 · HealthADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES — $25,715 · HealthMental Health Association For Chinese Communities — $25,000 · HealthJessie Rees Foundation — $20,000 · Health+6 more — $66,464 · Health+6 moreThe Peninsula College Fund — $230,000 · EducationThe Peninsula …LATINO EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION — $85,000 · EducationLATINO EDUCATI…REBUILDING TOGETHER SILICON VALLEY — $60,000 · EducationREBUILDING TOG…ACCESS BOOKS BAY AREA — $59,430 · EducationACCESS BOOKS B…10000 DEGREES — $25,000 · EducationSCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC — $25,000 · Education+1 more — $11,815 · EducationBILL WILSON CENTER — $193,429 · Human ServicesBILL WILSON C…Loved Twice — $83,429 · Human ServicesLoved TwiceAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY — $50,000 · Human ServicesAFRICAN AMERI…CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $50,000 · Human ServicesCANINE COMPAN…JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $48,429 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY…Wayfinder Family Services — $31,165 · Human ServicesWayfinder Fam…+3 more — $21,900 · Human ServicesNPOWER INC — $330,000 · Community ImprovementNPOWER INCNarika — $85,715 · Community ImprovementNarikaLocal Color — $30,000 · Community ImprovementLocal ColorHISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $23,400 · Community ImprovementCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $395,473 · ReligionCITYTEAM MI…OKIZU FOUNDATION — $69,430 · OtherOKIZU FOUNDATIONSAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKES LGBTQ PLUS ICE HOCKEY CLUB — $60,000 · OtherSAN FRANCISCO EARTHQUAKES …SELF-ESTEM — $33,429 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $70,000 · OtherSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN …Save The Bay — $79,715 · OtherSave The BayWALDEN WEST OUTDOOR SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $60,000 · OtherWALDEN WEST OUTDOOR SCHOOL…SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $56,000 · OtherSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON …CHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $33,429 · OtherHOPE SERVICES — $33,429 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY — $33,429 · Other+27 more — $389,607 · Other+27 more
Youth Development$632,906Health$585,572Education$496,245Human Services$478,352Community Improvement$469,115Religion$395,473Other$918,468

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 budgetCITYTEAM MINISTRIES — $395,473 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNPOWER INC — $330,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBRAVEN INC — $230,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetThe Peninsula College Fund — $230,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetBILL WILSON CENTER — $193,429 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) — $185,700 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHARKS ALUMNI FOUNDATION — $135,866 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetScientific Adventures dba Scientific Adventures for Girls — $89,430 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetNarika — $85,715 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetLATINO EDUCATION ADVANCEMENT FOUNDATION — $85,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLoved Twice — $83,429 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetSave The Bay — $79,715 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOKIZU FOUNDATION — $69,430 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY — $66,360 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKids & Art Foundation — $65,700 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetWALDEN WEST OUTDOOR SCHOOL FOUNDATION — $60,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER SILICON VALLEY — $60,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetGeorge Mark Childrens Fund — $59,430 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetACCESS BOOKS BAY AREA — $59,430 over 2y, 37% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $56,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICAN AMERICAN COMMUNITY SERVICE AGENCY — $50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC — $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF SILICON VALLEY — $48,429 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetONE STEP BEYOND INC — $45,621 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTEEN KITCHEN PROJECT — $40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHERE WITH CARE OF THE BAY AREA — $37,527 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetSELF-ESTEM — $33,429 over 1y, 13% of budgetHOPE SERVICES — $33,429 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY EAST BAY SILICON VALLEY — $33,429 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHILD ADVOCATES OF SILICON VALLEY INC — $33,429 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetWayfinder Family Services — $31,165 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetONE LIFE COUNSELING CENTER — $28,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetELEVATE TUTORING INC — $25,715 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $25,715 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADOLESCENT COUNSELING SERVICES — $25,715 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetMOVIMIENTO DE ARTE Y CULTURA LATINO AMERICANA DE SAN JOSE INCORPORATED — $25,715 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN VALUES — $25,710 over 1y, 0.8% of budget10000 DEGREES — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMental Health Association For Chinese Communities — $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSCIENCE IS ELEMENTARY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHISPANIC FOUNDATION OF SILICON VALLEY — $23,400 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetYOU CAN PLAY — $20,621 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetSHEIS NFP INC — $20,621 over 1y, 52% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJessie Rees Foundation — $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAN JOSE FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 8.2% of budgetSHINE TOGETHER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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 Sobrato Family Fo…Silicon Valley Commun…San Jose Mercury News…Kaiser Foundation Hos…Gordon E and Betty I …Los Altos Mountain Vi…The David and Lucile …Bothin FoundationThe Applied Materials…East Bay Community Fo…Bright Funds Foundati…Atkinson Foundation
The Sobrato Family FoundationCA45.1× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sobrato Family Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bothin Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Atkinson 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 Sharks 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%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    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 83 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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