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The Sylvia & Jim Katzman Foundation at a glance

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The Sylvia & Jim Katzman Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$23k
Granted FY2025still arriving
21
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$11k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$117kEducation$57kArts & Culture$25kPhilanthropy$23kHealth$20kScience & Tech$8kHuman Services$6kFood & Nutrition$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
$200
Median grant
4
States reached
$14k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONGREGATION SHIR HADASH$10,650
THE COMMON SCHOOL$5,000
VARIOUS ORGANIZED CHARITIES$1,867
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$1,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000
PURDUE FOUNDATION$500
THEATREWORKS$500
SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL$500
NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION$375
CANCER CAREPOINT$350
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES$200
ADL$100
ACLU$100
ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN JOSE$100
FIRST TEE SILICON VALLEY$100
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 (FY19–25, $625) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%NEXTDOOR SOLUTIONS: $25 → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS - SARATOGA: $50 → 8%ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS - SARATOGA: $50 → 8%UPLIFT FAMILY SERVICES: $500 → 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

IL
NY
MA
IN
NJ
CA
UT
MO
VA
KS
TN
DC
HI
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$250k · 36 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
30

Total granted

$250k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+19%

Still filing today

67%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthEducationInternationalHuman ServicesScience & TechOther
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

  • TC
    THE COMMON SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +49%
  • AH
    American Heart Association Inc
    7× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +33%
  • CA
    CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY
    4× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    one grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +19%
  • JL
    J LEADERSgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +63%
  • CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $500 · revenue +53%
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
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
2
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
3
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
4
The California Medical Innovations Institute Inc

The Institute is a scientific research center dedicated to conducting basic and applied research to advance the understanding of human disease and the improvement of human health. The Institute fosters an innovative research environment…

Education
5
Association of California School Administrators

The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.

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6
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
7
University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education
8
University of Southern California

The central mission of the university of southern california is the development of human beings and society as a whole through the cultivation and enrichment of the human mind and spirit. the principal means by which our mission is…

Education
9
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

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…

Education
10
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
11
Society for Neuroscience

Sfn's mission is to: 1. advance the understanding of the brain and the nervous system by bringing together scientists of all segments of neuroscience, by facilitating the integration of research directed at all levels of biological…

Health
12
Ucla Foundation

The ucla foundation is the giving, receiving, and investing arm of the ucla campus. the foundation enables private donors to help build, sustain and advance one of the world's finest academic and research institutions. private philanthropy…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma; the most unlike its peers is J Leaders. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 of the 70 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
31/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONGREGATION SHIR HADASH: $114,883 · OtherCONGREGATION SHIR HADASHUC REGENTS: $29,000 · OtherUC REGENTSVARIOUS ORGANIZED CHARITIES: $18,332 · OtherVARIOUS ORGANIZED CHARITIESTHE COMMON SCHOOL INC: $14,500 · OtherTHE COMMON SCHOOL INC+37 more: $22,752 · Other+37 moreSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $18,050 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISC…COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $3,000 · Arts & CultureCOMPUTER HIS…SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: $2,430 · Arts & CultureSILICON VALL…MONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $1,600 · Arts & CultureMONTALVO ASS…THE TECH INTERACTIVE: $1,250 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $2,125 · Arts & Culture+4 moreAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,420 · HealthNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $3,835 · HealthAmerican Liver Foundation: $1,200 · HealthLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $1,000 · HealthCANCER CAREPOINT INC: $710 · Health+3 more: $480 · HealthUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $3,000 · EducationACHIEVEKIDS: $1,065 · EducationWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,050 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $900 · EducationPurdue Research Foundation: $500 · EducationALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION: $250 · EducationHRJ CHARITIES INC: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentJ LEADERS: $1,000 · Youth DevelopmentCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY: $4,000 · Science & TechSETI INSTITUTE: $600 · Science & TechJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $3,325 · PhilanthropyLevy Family Campus: $1,000 · Philanthropy
Other$199,467Arts & Culture$28,455Health$15,645Education$6,765Youth Development$5,000Science & Tech$4,600Philanthropy$4,325

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $18,050 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMON SCHOOL INC: $14,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $8,420 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY: $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHRJ CHARITIES INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNational Kidney Foundation Inc: $3,835 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA: $3,325 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL: $2,430 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMONTALVO ASSOCIATION: $1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TECH INTERACTIVE: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Liver Foundation: $1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetACHIEVEKIDS: $1,065 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWASHINGTON UNIVERSITY: $1,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLevy Family Campus: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJ LEADERS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION: $900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKQED INC: $720 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER CAREPOINT INC: $710 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY: $655 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSETI INSTITUTE: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALO ALTO ART CENTER FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC CLINICS: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMON SENSE MEDIA: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA EPSILON PI FOUNDATION: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONSUMER REPORTS INC: $225 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MYELOMA FOUNDATION: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN JOSE: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOUGH2GETHER FOUNDATION: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF LOS GATOS-SARATOGA: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $25 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMON SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY ↗
  • Who funds HRJ CHARITIES INC ↗
  • Who funds National Kidney Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA ↗
  • Who funds UC SANTA CRUZ FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMPUTER HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL ↗
  • Who funds MONTALVO ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TECH INTERACTIVE ↗
  • Who funds American Liver Foundation ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEKIDS ↗
  • Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Levy Family Campus ↗
  • Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds J LEADERS ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds CANCER CAREPOINT INC ↗
  • Who funds THEATREWORKS SILICON VALLEY ↗
  • Who funds SETI INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION OF FOOD BANKS ↗
  • Who funds NORTH AMHERST COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
  • Who funds PALO ALTO ART CENTER FOUNDATION ↗

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…Jewish Community Fede…Gs Donor Advised Phil…Marin Community Found…The David and Lucile …Los Altos Mountain Vi…The Applied Materials…Heffernan Group Found…Morgan Stanley Global…Matt & Gretchen Dinap…Farrington Historical…Michael and Ina Korek…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA27.8× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Matt & Gretchen Dinapoli Family Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · Michael and Ina Korek Foundation 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 Sylvia & Jim Katzman Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sylvia & Jim Katzman Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    3get no government money at all
    9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
    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.

    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 70 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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