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The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation at a glance

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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.

$788k
Granted FY2023
4
Grants FY2023
2
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2023.

Philanthropy$9.5MEducation$4.3MFood & Nutrition$1.7MCommunity Improvement$1.5MHousing & Shelter$1.3MHealth$1.0MHuman Services$868kCrime & Legal$699kOther$0
02FY2023 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2023

  • $50k–250k2 grants · $288k
  • $250k+2 grants · $500k
$250,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION GREATER BOSTON: $100k → 16%LYMELIGHT FOUNDATION: $3k → 7%OUR TOWN ST HELENA: $12k → 9%FORESTDALE INC: $10k → 13%WOMENS CENTER OF WAKE COUNTY INC: $3k → 8%STEPUP DURHAM: $3k → 11%FREEDOM SERVICE DOGS: $10k → 8%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION: $14k → 12%MY BROTHERS KEEPER INC: $5k → 11%LEARNING ALLY: $20k → 11%JOHNNY MAC SOLDIERS FUND: $2k → 4%OUR TOWN ST HELENA: $10k → 9%WASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%EMERGENCY FAMILY ASSISTANCE: $8k → 12%OUR TOWN ST HELENA: $10k → 9%CANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE: $5k → 11%BRAVE SPACE ALLIANCE: $5k → 14%KIDS MEALS INC: $3k → 16%WASHINGTON AREA WOMENS FOUNDATION: $25k → 14%OPEN DOORS TO FUTURE POSSIBILITIES: $500 → 8%BROWN BAG MINISTRY: $3k → 8%COMMUNITY SERVINGS: $50k → 16%INDIASPORA: $10k → 10%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $4k → 7%OPEN DOORS TO FUTURE POSSIBILITIES: $500 → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS: $8k → 10%PENINSULA FAMILY SERVICE: $3k → 7%AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS: $19k → 14%FENIXIA FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 7%YMCA OF SILICON VALLEY: $15k → 8%HUCKLEBERRY YOUTH PROGRAMS INC: $5k → 10%SOMOS FAMILIA: $10k → 10%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $10k → 17%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 10%THE BILL WILSON CENTER: $50k → 8%NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION: $100k → 7%THE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $50k → 14%CENTER AT BLESSED SACRAMENT (THE): $10k → 14%BILL WILSON CENTER: $50k → 8%PHOENIX INDIAN CENTER: $75k → 11%SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE: $10k → 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

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CO
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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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 40% of The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 61% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 57%.

The Silicon Valley Bank Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.5% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.1M · 60 repeat orgs$7.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +9% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
267

Total granted

$6.1M
$7.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+9%

Still filing today

85%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TA
    THE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND
    2× · 2021–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +25%
  • LF
    Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
    3× · 2017–2022 · $538k · revenue +19%
  • HT
    HOUSING TRUST SILICON VALLEY
    3× · 2017–2023 · $510k · revenue +418%

Funded once

  • ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500k · revenue +53%
  • FU
    FLORIDA UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
  • FA
    FLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · $500k
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
Feeding San Diego

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,…

Food & Nutrition
2
United Food Bank

United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.

Food & Nutrition
3
The Health Trust

The mission is to build health equity in silicon valley.

Health
4
Dress for Success San Francisco

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.

Civil Rights
5
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
6
Kqed Inc

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;…

Arts & Culture
7
Public Advocates Inc

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,…

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8
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
9
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

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.

Philanthropy
10
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
11
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
12
South Central Family Health Center

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Diego Foundation; 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.
05the grantee network

236 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

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)
49
Early backer (in before they grew)
228/236
Grantees still filing
145/236
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Silicon Valley Community Foundation: $8,165,936 · PhilanthropySilicon Valley Community FoundationAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $620,524 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC+11 more: $300,250 · PhilanthropyFLORIDA UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · OtherFLORIDA UNIVERSITYFLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · OtherFLORIDA A&M UNIVERSITYARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · OtherARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITYMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $355,000 · OtherCALIFORNIA REINVESTMENT COALITION FBO CALIFORNIA RECOVERY FUND: $250,000 · OtherBURBANK HOUSING FBO CARITAS VILLAGE: $250,000 · OtherRise Economy: $250,000 · Other+122 more: $4,453,488 · Other+122 moreTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,000,000 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRA…XAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $1,000,000 · EducationXAVIER UNIVERS…ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 · EducationARIZONA STATE …+11 more: $213,890 · Education+11 moreGRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $125,000 · Community ImprovementBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $122,500 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $30,000 · Community Improvement+3 more: $50,000 · Community ImprovementYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesBILL WILSON CENTER: $100,000 · Human ServicesPACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND FKA NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION: $100,000 · Human ServicesWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Human ServicesPHOENIX INDIAN CENTER INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $60,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesOUR TOWN ST HELENA: $31,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $28,750 · Human Services+13 more: $181,950 · Human ServicesHOUSING TRUST SILICON VALLEY: $510,000 · Housing & ShelterFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC: $110,000 · Housing & ShelterCHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50,000 · Housing & ShelterHOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY: $32,500 · Housing & Shelter+4 more: $58,500 · Housing & ShelterLaw Foundation of Silicon Valley: $538,000 · Crime & LegalUTAH DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ADVISORY COUNCIL: $25,000 · Crime & LegalSILICON VALLEY CAMPAIGN FOR LEGAL SERVICES: $25,000 · Crime & LegalINSIDEOUT WRITERS INC: $25,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more: $39,000 · Crime & Legal
Philanthropy$9,086,710Other$7,058,488Education$2,713,890Community Improvement$827,500Human Services$802,200Housing & Shelter$761,000Crime & Legal$652,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSilicon Valley Community Foundation: $8,165,936 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetXAVIER UNIVERSITY OF LOUISIANA: $1,000,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC: $620,524 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLaw Foundation of Silicon Valley: $538,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetHOUSING TRUST SILICON VALLEY: $510,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION FOR A NEW AMERICAN UNIVERSITY: $500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS OF SAN FRANCISCO INC: $355,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRise Economy: $250,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK: $150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $150,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $130,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTempe Community Action Agency Inc: $125,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $125,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUSINESSES UNITED IN INVESTING LENDING & DEVELOPMENT: $122,500 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetINDIAN HEALTH CENTER OF SANTA CLARA VALLEY: $120,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTARTOUT: $115,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF BOSTON'S HOMELESS INC: $110,000 over 2y, 8.8% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER BOSTON INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVALLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION (VHF): $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBILL WILSON CENTER: $100,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK: $100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPACIFIC COMMUNITY FUND FKA NATIONAL ASIAN AMERICAN COALITION: $100,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetWASHINGTON AREA WOMEN'S FOUNDATION: $75,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budget1N10 INC: $75,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetST MARY'S FOOD BANK ALLIANCE: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPHOENIX INDIAN CENTER INC: $75,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetSCOTTSDALE COMMUNITY PARTNERS: $75,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetTHE CENTER IN HOLLYWOOD: $60,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetASIAN AMERICANS ADVANCING JUSTICE - AAJC INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRaising A Reader: $50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHINATOWN COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEDREN COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERINC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER SEARCH: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $37,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charlie Cart Project: $34,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetHOUSING LEADERSHIP COUNCIL OF SAN MATEO COUNTY: $32,500 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetOUR TOWN ST HELENA: $31,500 over 3y, 15% of budgetMUST: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSILICON ANDHRA: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSTOP SOLDIER SUICIDE INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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…The Sobrato Family Fo…The David and Lucile …The Yelp FoundationThe San Francisco Fou…Mufg Union Bank Found…Los Altos Mountain Vi…United Way of the Bay…The Wilson Sonsini Go…Sunlight GivingThe Applied Materials…Virginia G Piper Char…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA40.5× affinity67 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
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 Silicon Valley Bank Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
81report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Silicon Valley Bank Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 337 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.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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