North Carolina · Private foundation
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.
- $788k
- Granted FY2023
- 4
- Grants FY2023
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2023
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2023
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 103
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2023
- 2
- Total assets, FY2023
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 50% of the organizations The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
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
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2023 | 4 | $788k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 98 | $5.8M | 81% |
| FY2021 | 96 | $5.6M | 93% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $132k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $248k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 103 | $606k | 69% |
| FY2017 | 74 | $386k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2023, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | $1,000,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Law Foundation of Silicon Valley | $538,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Housing Trust Silicon Valley | $510,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Grameen America Inc | $500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Meals on Wheels of San Francisco Inc | $355,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Rise Economy | $250,000 | 1 | 4% |
| American Friends of Magen David Adom | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 237 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 92 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
Compare The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation with peer funders
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About The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation
- How much does The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation give?
- The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation reported 4 grants totaling $787,564 in its FY2023 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 103 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2023, its largest causes are Philanthropy (42%), Education (19%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2023: The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($1.0M), Xavier University of Louisiana ($1.0M), Law Foundation of Silicon Valley ($538k).
- Does The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The Sobrato Family Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Where is The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation based?
- The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation is based in NC.
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