· Private foundation
The Walter and Judith Sleeth Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of The Walter and Judith Sleeth Foundation’s FY2020 grant dollars went to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2020 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year The Walter and Judith Sleeth Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 30 organizations, $36k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k50 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $13k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ART IN ACTION | $13,350 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $2,500 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION | $2,000 |
| OBERLIN COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| JDRF | $2,000 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| LIFEMOVES | $1,000 |
| CORNELL LAW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $1,000 |
| CANTOR MUSEUM STANFORD | $600 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| MENLO ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
| CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHL | $500 |
| AVENIDAS | $500 |
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 (FY17–18, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 6% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +48% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- AIART IN ACTION3× · 2017–2019 · $34k · revenue +14%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1D2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +49%
Oberlin College2× · 2017–2018 · $4k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- OBOPERA BOX OFFICEone grant, 2017 · $3k
- MAMENLO ATHERTON ED FDNone grant, 2017 · $1k
- PVPACIFIC VALLEY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $1k
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mongabay Org Corp and the most unlike its peers is Art in Action. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 57 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 73 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 Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds ART IN ACTION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds Oberlin College ↗
- Who funds CASTILLEJA SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AVENIDAS ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Bay ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WALKER ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
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 · Marin Community Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Walter and Judith Sleeth 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.