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The Violich Family Foundation at a glance

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The Violich Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
20
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$550k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Recreation & Sports$3.8MEducation$1.6MHealth$1.2MArts & Culture$470kReligion$185kInternational$100kYouth Development$47kEnvironment$38kOther$0
02FY2025 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $27k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $122k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.1M
$10,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STANFORD UNIV WOMEN'S SOFTBALL$550,000
MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION$310,000
UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION$250,000
COFAM$100,000
SAN FRANCISCO BALLET$100,000
MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATI$30,000
USA CYCLING FOUNDATION$25,000
SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY$15,000
THE MEMORY PROJECT$11,600
ENLOE FOUNDATION$10,000
NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION$10,000
HOOVER INSTITUTE AT STANFORD$10,000
STANFORD UNIVERSITY$10,000
PACIFIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE$5,000
EUTHERA FOUNDATION$5,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 99% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%TAHOE CROSS COUNTRY LODGE PROJECT: $50k → 6%FRIENDS OF THE REDWOODS CHARITABLE: $10k → 7%MARIANIST PROVINCE OF US: $10k → 8%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $250k → 10%AMADOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%COFAM: $100k → 10%LESLIE J NICKELS TRUST: $10k → 11%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH VALLEY: $29k → 18%THE MEMORY PROJECT: $12k → 10%SUFFIELD ACADEMY: $10k → 11%USA CYCLING FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $575k → 11%NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MARIANIST PROVINCE OF US: $10k → 8%UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $250k → 10%KENNEDY GOLD MINE: $10k → 10%FINE ARTS MUSEUM RECOVERY FUND: $100k → 10%BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NORTH VALLEY: $10k → 18%USA CYCLING FOUNDATION: $25k → 9%THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $350k → 11%NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION: $10k → 10%MARIANIST PROVINCE OF US: $10k → 8%MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL CAPITAL CAMP: $356k → 8%FINE ARTS MUSEUM SF: $50k → 10%ENLOE FOUNDATION: $10k → 18%CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION: $17k → 11%STANFORD UNIV WOMEN'S WATERPOLO: $1.0M → 8%MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $310k → 8%FINE ARTS MUSEUM: $30k → 10%STANFORD UNIV WOMEN'S SOFTBALL: $750k → 8%MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL CAPITAL CAMP: $171k → 8%STANFORD UNIV WOMEN'S SOFTBALL: $550k → 8%MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL CAPITAL CAMP: $145k → 8%STANFORD UNIV ATHLETICS' WOMENS: $500k → 8%MARIN CATHOLIC: $90k → 8%STANFORD ATHLETICS WOMEN'S SWIMMING: $434k → 8%MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL CAPITAL CAMP: $80k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $100k → 10%STANFORD UNIV ATHLETICS' WOMENS: $300k → 8%MARIN CATHOLIC: $65k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $50k → 10%STANFORD SCHOOL OF ATHLETICS: $180k → 8%MARIN HEALTH FOUNDATION: $50k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO BALLET: $25k → 10%MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $40k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $15k → 10%MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATI: $30k → 8%MARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $18k → 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.
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.5M · 25 repeat orgs$2.0M to everyone else

25 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
16

Total granted

$5.5M
$1.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+51%

Still filing today

44%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

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Arts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyInternationalEnvironmentOther
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

  • MG
    MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2025 · $360k · revenue +214%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +11%
  • CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $22k · revenue +162%

Funded once

  • SU
    STANFORD UNIV WOMEN'S WATERPOLO
    one grant, 2023 · $1.0M
  • SA
    STANFORD ATHLETICS WOMEN'S SWIMMING
    one grant, 2018 · $434k
  • SS
    STANFORD SCHOOL OF ATHLETICS
    one grant, 2017 · $180k
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
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
2
The San Francisco School

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.

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3
Pacific University

A diverse and sustainable learning community dedicated to discovery and excellence in teaching, scholarship and practice, pacific university inspires students to think, care, create and pursue justice in our world.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
5
Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education
6
The Uc Davis Foundation

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

Education
7
California Pacific Medical Center Foundation

MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…

Health
8
Cal State East Bay Educational Foundation

To accept and manage restricted and unrestricted gifts benefiting california state university east bay. additionally, the trustees support the university through advocacy, development, personal contributions and counsel to the university's…

Education
9
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.

—
10
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
11
San Francisco Girls' School

To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.

—
12
The International School of San Francisco

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marin General Hospital Foundation; the most unlike its peers is The Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust. 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

16 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. 16 of the 48 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
8/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STANFORD UNIV WOMEN'S SOFTBALL: $1,300,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIV WOMEN'S SOFTBALLSTANFORD UNIV WOMEN'S WATERPOLO: $1,000,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIV WOMEN'S WATERPOLOSTANFORD UNIV ATHLETICS' WOMENS: $800,000 · OtherSTANFORD UNIV ATHLETICS' WOMENSMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL CAPITAL CAMP: $762,000 · OtherMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL CAPITAL CAMPUC BERKELEY FOUNDATION: $500,000 · OtherUC BERKELEY FOUNDATIONSTANFORD ATHLETICS WOMEN'S SWIMMING: $433,738 · OtherSTANFORD ATHLETICS WOMEN'S SWIMMINGMARIN CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL: $231,000 · Other+27 more: $802,141 · Other+27 moreTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $935,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF TH…+2 more: $20,500 · EducationMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $360,000 · HealthENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 · Health+1 more: $2,068 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $175,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $53,000 · Arts & CultureNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $2,200 · Arts & CultureCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 · InternationalPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $10,000 · PhilanthropyAMADOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyAMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY: $13,000 · Environment
Other$5,828,879Education$955,500Health$382,068Arts & Culture$257,700International$22,000Philanthropy$20,000Environment$13,000

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 budgetTRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL: $935,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $360,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $53,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC: $22,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY: $13,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MEMORY PROJECT INC: $11,600 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Research Institute For Public Policy: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMADOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO: $2,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL: $2,068 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DAWN REDWOODS CHARITABLE TRUST: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MARIN GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CAPE ELEUTHERA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ENLOE HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN RIVER CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds THE MEMORY PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy ↗
  • Who funds AMADOR COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SUFFIELD ACADEMY ↗

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.

Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…National Philanthropi…The Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust IncIN10.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Violich Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Violich Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    2get no government money at all
    1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to The Violich Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to The Violich Family 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.

    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 48 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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