· Private foundation
The Venables Foundation
Its FY2025 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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $21k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $95k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Schwab Charitable | $155,000 |
| The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Al | $100,000 |
| Schools Rule Marin | $60,000 |
| Marin Foster Care Association | $25,000 |
| Mary's Meals | $25,000 |
| St Vincent de Paul Society of Marin | $25,000 |
| Haiti on the Rise | $10,000 |
| Canal Alliance | $10,000 |
| The Jesuit Retreat Center of Los Al | $7,600 |
| St Vincent de Paul Society of SF | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| American Red Cross | $2,000 |
| Book Exchange of Marin | $2,000 |
| Service Education for Village Aware | $1,000 |
| ThinkGlobal Arts Foundation | $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.
US giving: 64% of grant dollars ($2.0M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 36% that went abroad ($1.1M) is mapped below.
Its human-services grants (FY17–17, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% 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
Beyond the US: 36% of all-years giving ($1.1M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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 +54% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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; $3k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMary's Meals USA Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $240k · revenue +308%
- TJTHE JESUIT RETREAT CENTER OF LOS ALTOS3× · 2020–2025 · $228k · revenue +213%
- CACANAL ALLIANCE6× · 2017–2025 · $80k · revenue +229%
Funded once
- SRSCHOOLS RULEone grant, 2017 · $15k
- JRJESUIT REFUGEE SERVICEUSone grant, 2017 · $10k
- OSOld St Mary's Cathedralone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
We make it possible for people in marin to achieve well-being by providing the vital services they need. together, we break down the barriers that get in the way of fair and lasting change in service to better outcomes for all.
To boldly engage the world's greatest crises in partnership with the church.
Catholic Charities provides social services and administers various governmental and social programs. Designed to meet the challenge of the ever-changing community by utilizing spiritual, human and financial resources, our programs enable…
The mission of the global alliance for improved nutrition (gain) is to improve the consumption of healthier diets for all, especially the most vulnerable, by improving the availability, affordability, desirability, and sustainability of…
The mission of Solar Cookers International is to improve human health, economic well-being, womens empowerment, and the environment by promoting climate-friendly solar cooking for vulnerable populations worldwide.
Refugees international advocates for lifesaving assistance, human rights, and protection for displaced people and promotes solutions to displacement crisis.
Partners In Health (PIH) is a non-profit, global health organization that fights social injustice by bringing the benefits of modern medical science first and foremost to the most vulnerable communities worldwide. In Haiti, Malawi, Rwanda,…
Iyf is a global ngo that prepares young people to be healthy, productive and engaged citizens.
UUSC advances human rights and social justice around the world, partnering with those who confront unjust power structures and mobilizing to challenge oppressive policies. Our work is grounded in the belief that all people have inherent…
How this is measured
17 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. 17 of the 30 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Meals USA Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JESUIT RETREAT CENTER OF LOS ALTOS ↗
- Who funds HAITI ON THE RISE ↗
- Who funds CANAL ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL SOCIETY DISTRICT COUNCIL OF MARIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MARIN FOSTER CARE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds HOME OF HOPE INDIA - US ↗
- Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds ADVOKIDS ↗
- Who funds BOOK EXCHANGE OF MARIN ↗
- Who funds Youth in Arts ↗
- Who funds THINK GLOBAL ARTS 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.
Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Venables Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Venables Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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