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The Synopsys Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.4M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
36
Grants FY2024
29
Organizations funded FY2023
62%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$1,451,173
Organizations funded a year
3 to 29
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
11
Total assets, FY2024
$20M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 62% of the organizations The Synopsys Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $469k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
EducationPhilanthropyEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalScience & 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving31$3.3M13%
FY202329$3.4M62%
FY202217$2.7M94%
FY20213$1.2M0%
FY20203$1.7M0%
FY20193$1.5M0%
FY20184$1.2M0%
FY20174$1.2Mn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$12MScience & Tech$9.4MInternational$3.0MEducation$718kRecreation & Sports$665kYouth Development$583kHealth$350kEnvironment$206kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
OR
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
NC
DC
GA
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 35 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($12M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The Synopsys Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 34 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPoints of Light Foundation: $1,660,742 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetAgastya USA: $384,745 over 3y, 32% of budgetTechnovation: $375,000 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetCity Year Inc: $350,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNorth American Association for Environmental Educa: $120,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSunnyvale Community Services: $120,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLotus Petal USA: $102,375 over 3y, 22% of budgetSecond Harvest of Silicon Valley: $75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAustin Science Education Foundation: $70,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetSmart Reading: $65,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetThe Family Giving Tree: $62,440 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCareervillage Inc: $60,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetNAACP Empowerment Programs Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHillsboro Schools Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetParikrma USA Inc: $47,313 over 3y, 17% of budgetHomeplate Youth Services: $45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBeaverton Education Foundation: $45,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetGirls Who Code Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUpchieve Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetK to College Dba Supplybankorg: $24,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement International China Inc: $20,904 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMaison Chance USA Inc: $20,053 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetFree Geek: $15,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHandson Bay Area: $14,638 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLove of Vietnam Expressed: $12,186 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $10,414 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWorldwide Orphans Foundation: $9,944 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThrive Networks Global: $5,842 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAustin Habitat for Humanity Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRise Against Hunger Inc: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCorpsgiving Foundation: $2,173 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGreen Mountain Habitat for Humanity: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trail Conservancy: $605 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA25.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Salesforce Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Kla Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Oregon Community Foundation

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.

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How do I get to The Synopsys Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Synopsys 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.

About The Synopsys Foundation

How much does The Synopsys Foundation give?
The Synopsys Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $4,366,427 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 29 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Synopsys Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (45%), Science & Tech (34%), International (11%).
Who are The Synopsys Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Points of Light Foundation ($1.7M), Agastya USA ($385k), Technovation ($375k).
Does The Synopsys Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Synopsys Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Synopsys Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Tides Foundation, Salesforce Foundation.
Where is The Synopsys Foundation based?
The Synopsys Foundation is based in DE.

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 47 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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