· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2020.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
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 (FY17–18, $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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +49% since the first grant, against +48% for those 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
How this is measured
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
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.
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How this is measured
38 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. 38 of the 73 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 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 AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL OF THE USA INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL SPRINGS UPLANDS SCHOOL ↗
- 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 UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds MENLO PARK-ATHERTON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM 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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Walter and Judith Sleeth Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Walter and Judith Sleeth Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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