· Private foundation
The Sylvia & Jim Katzman Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $11k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| THEATREWORKS | $500 |
| SILICON VALLEY JEWISH FILM FESTIVAL | $500 |
| PURDUE FOUNDATION | $500 |
| NATIONAL KIDNEY FOUNDATION | $375 |
| CANCER CAREPOINT | $350 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES | $200 |
| FIRST TEE SILICON VALLEY | $100 |
| ASSISTANCE LEAGUE OF SAN JOSE | $100 |
| ACLU | $100 |
| ADL | $100 |
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 (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. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $225 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
- TCTHE COMMON SCHOOL INC4× · 2021–2025 · $15k · revenue +49%
- AHAmerican Heart Association Inc7× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +33%
- CACALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY4× · 2017–2023 · $4k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- JLJ LEADERSgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +63%
- LPLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTHone grant, 2018 · $1k · revenue +19%
- PCPACIFIC CLINICSgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $500 · revenue +222%
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 mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
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,…
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.
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…
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.
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.
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…
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…
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 foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
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…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
44 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. 44 of the 70 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 SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds THE COMMON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HRJ CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ASSOCIATION FOR RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY ↗
- 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 J LEADERS ↗
- Who funds Levy Family Campus ↗
- Who funds LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH ↗
- 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 PACIFIC CLINICS ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMHERST COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
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: 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
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 Sylvia & Jim Katzman 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.