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The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- $50k–250k2 grants · $288k
- $250k+2 grants · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GRAMEEN AMERICA INC | $250,000 |
| HOUSING TRUST OF SILICON VALLEY | $250,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM | $200,000 |
| UK ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION | $87,564 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–22, $791k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 40% of The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 57% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
60 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 58 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TATHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +25%
- LFLaw Foundation of Silicon Valley3× · 2017–2022 · $538k · revenue +19%
- HTHOUSING TRUST SILICON VALLEY3× · 2017–2023 · $510k · revenue +418%
Funded once
- ASARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · $500k
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +53%- FUFLORIDA UNIVERSITYone grant, 2022 · $500k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
The mission is to build health equity in silicon valley.
Dress for success san francisco/san jose empowers women to achieve economic independence by providing a network of support, professional attire, and development tools to help them thrive in work and in life.
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.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
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,…
To improve the quality of life for the diverse communities we serve providing affordable and comprehensive healthcare and education in a welcoming multi-cultural environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kyrene de La Mariposa Pto. 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.
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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
236 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 236 of the 337 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND ↗
- Who funds XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Law Foundation of Silicon Valley ↗
- Who funds HOUSING TRUST SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC ↗
- Who funds Rise Economy ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds Tempe Community Action Agency Inc ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds BUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds INDIAN HEALTH CENTER OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY ↗
- Who funds STARTOUT ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC ↗
- Who funds BILL WILSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds VALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF) ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND FKA NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Mufg Union Bank Foundation Ag · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The Applied Materials Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust
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 Silicon Valley Bank 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.
- Habcore Inc — 50% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Girl Develop It — 7% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Learning Ally Inc — 4% of income from government
- Tuality Healthcare Foundation — 3% of income from government
- The Possible Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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.
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