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The Uplands Family 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k22 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $128k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LA FAMILIA SANA | $50,000 |
| MOUNT TAMALPAIS SCHOOL | $40,000 |
| SAINT PATRICK'S SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| 10000 DEGREES | $13,000 |
| THE LITTLE SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| MARIN CATHOLIC | $12,500 |
| CATE SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN | $10,000 |
| MARK DAY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| THE REPRESENTATION PROJECT | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| SAINT PATRICK CHURCH | $5,000 |
| MONGABAYORG | $5,000 |
| ZAMORANO | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $143k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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 11% of The Uplands Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.
73 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2024, 45 since wound down; 3 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MTMOUNT TAMALPAIS SCHOOL4× · 2020–2024 · $145k · revenue +80%
- HHeyday4× · 2019–2022 · $109k · revenue +32%
- LFLA FAMILIA SANA3× · 2022–2024 · $93k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- MMMARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOLgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +35%
- TTTHE TROPICAL FOREST GROUPone grant, 2018 · $10k
- CTCareer Technical Education Foundation Sonoma Countygraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +60%
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.
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…
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
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.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
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.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
Bay Nature connects the people of the San Francisco Bay Area to our natural world and motivates people to solve problems with nature in mind. Our vision is that all people have a close relationship with theirnatural world.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
Sonoma charter school seeks to achieve academic excellence through engaged learning in a setting that involves students, teachers, and parents.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
See schedule oto realize the transformative potential of middle school. millennium school believes in developing each student to their fullest potential, this involves providing both a rigorous academic program and a science-based…
How this is measured
85 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. 85 of the 139 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
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.
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BONE HEALTH ↗
- Who funds MOUNT TAMALPAIS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR INTERNATIONAL POLICY INC ↗
- Who funds Heyday ↗
- Who funds LA FAMILIA SANA ↗
- Who funds MARK DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds 10000 DEGREES ↗
- Who funds SCOPA HAS A DREAM INC DBA CORAZON HEALDSBURG ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN ↗
- Who funds Reach Shirati ↗
- Who funds MARIN PRIMARY & MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM HALL ↗
- Who funds MONGABAY ORG CORP ↗
- Who funds MARIN MONTESSORI SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST HARBOR LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds COLLEGE OF THE ATLANTIC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds The Edible Schoolyard Project dba The Alice Waters Institute ↗
- Who funds The Representation Project ↗
- Who funds PEPPERWOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MARIN HORIZON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CATE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Little School-Tiburon ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
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: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · East Bay Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Peter E Haas Jr Family Fund · Bothin Foundation · Sonoma County Vintners Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Susanna Porter & James Clark Giving Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Uplands Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Uplands Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Island Housing Trust Corporation: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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