· Public charity
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation
To tackle issues that will help Silicon Valley remain the international capital of innovation, with a healthy business climate and great quality of life for its workers.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SV | $162,739 |
| HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION | $147,779 |
| HEALTH TRUST | $143,337 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SC | $56,144 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of SV | $6,667 |
| YMCA of Silicon Valley | $6,667 |
| Santa Clara Co Office of Ed | $6,667 |
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 (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- SHSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +138%
- HTHOUSING TRUST SILICON VALLEY6× · 2017–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +418%
- HKHEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · $889k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- SCSANTA CLARA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2018 · $15k
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS NORTH SAN MATEO COUNTYone grant, 2018 · $15k · revenue -12%
- SCSANTA CLARA COUNTY OFFICE OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
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.
The club's mission is to enable all young people, specially those who need it most, to reach their potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
The central coast ymca embraces the values of caring, honesty, respect and responsibility, with a mission to strengthen community through programs that develop youth, support healthy living, and foster social responsibility.
Create and support mentoring matches that ignite the power and promise of youth.
To provide opportunities for youth to learn and succeed.
Our mission is to encourage a diverse population of high-need young people to explore their full potential through academic, career, family, and community life. Every year, CYC impacts over 8,000 San Francisco youth and their families,…
Serving the children of fillmore, piru and santa paula to inspire and enable all youth to reach their full potential as productive, caring and responsible citizens.
The mission of the united way of santa cruz county is to ignite our community to give, advocate and volunteer so that our youth succeed in school and in life, our residents are healthy and our families are financially independent.our most…
The ymca of san diego county is a nonprofit with a mission to nurture a healthy spirit, mind, and body so all can thrive while honoring our faith-based heritage.
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential as responsible and caring citizens.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as caring, responsible, productive citizens.
The boys & girls club of tracy's mission is to enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.
Boys and girls clubs provide a safe place for youth to develop character, leadership, education, career guidance, health, art, sports and fitness while becoming responsible and caring citizens.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Health Trust and the most unlike its peers is Outride fka the Specialized Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 17 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
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 SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE HEALTH TRUST ↗
- Who funds HOUSING TRUST SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds HEALTHIER KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds CHRISTMAS IN THE PARK ↗
- Who funds SAN JOSE DOWNTOWN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Outride fka The Specialized Foundation ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club of Santa Cruz ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS NORTH SAN MATEO COUNTY ↗
- Who funds QUAKES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
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: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · United Association Journeymen & Apprentices 393 Ppf · The Family Giving Tree · Boys & Girls Clubs of America (Group Return) · Boys & Girls Clubs of America · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Leadership Group 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.
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.