· Private foundation
The Sobrato Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k146 grants · $239k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $921k
- $50k–250k282 grants · $32M
- $250k+61 grants · $36M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| IMPACTASSETS INC | $3,000,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000,000 |
| IMPACTASSETS INC | $1,500,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,500,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| COUNTY OF SAN MATEO | $1,000,000 |
| IMPACTASSETS INC | $1,000,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| SILICON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $875,000 |
| DESTINATION HOME | $660,000 |
| SUNNYVALE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $500,000 |
| ABODE SERVICES | $500,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $25.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 18% of The Sobrato Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +4% for those funded once.
308 repeat relationships: 254 still active in FY2024, 54 since wound down; 118 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ASABODE SERVICES5× · 2020–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +131%
- SMSOMOS MAYFAIR INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +34%
The Education Trust Inc5× · 2020–2024 · $1.8M · revenue +25%
Funded once
- TSThe Sobrato Foundationone grant, 2020 · $58M · revenue -91% · 43% of their budget
- CICatalytic Impact Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $2.5M · revenue -73% · 61% of their budget
GRANTMAKERS CONCERNED WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEESone grant, 2020 · $2.0M · revenue -38%
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.
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.
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,…
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.
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…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
Active San Gabriel Valley (ActiveSGV) is a community-based environmental advocacy and public health non-profit organization. Our mission is to promote a more sustainable, equitable, and livable San Gabriel Valley.
SF Partnership is an organization comprised of SF's leading employers dedicated to supporting an equitable, resilient, and vibrant economy shared by all people working and living in San Francisco. Through education, advocacy, and research,…
California Donor Table anchors a hub of donors, foundations, and community leaders. We pool together our resources to shape California into a truly democratic state that works for the people, not the powerful. Rooted in our commitment to…
Centro Legal De La Raza is a comprehensive legal services agency protecting and advancing the rights of low-income immigrant communities throguh culturally competent bilingual legal representation, education, and advocacy.
How this is measured
534 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. 534 of the 649 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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
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.
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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: The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The Heising-Simons Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Atkinson Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Destination Home SV co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · The Palo Alto Community Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sobrato Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sobrato Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Cast Inc: 15% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
- City Year Inc: 11% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc: 1% of income from government
- Year Up Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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