· Private foundation
The William G Irwin Charity Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $668k
- $50k–250k86 grants · $8.2M
- $250k+7 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LUMEN CHRISTI ACADEMIES OF THE ROMAN CATHOLIC DIO | $400,000 |
| CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL | $300,000 |
| ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $275,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| DYNAMIC COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $250,000 |
| THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT | $250,000 |
| VITALANT FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| SUN STREET CENTERS | $200,000 |
| RITTER CENTER | $200,000 |
| CHILD START INCORPORATED | $200,000 |
| A BETTER WAY INC | $200,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| NATIVE AMERICAN HEALTH CENTER INC | $200,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOUSING PARTNERSHIP DBA HOMERISE | $200,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $5.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% 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
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 6% of The William G Irwin Charity Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 81%.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
35 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 68 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7.6M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +10%
ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK5× · 2020–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +39%- SHSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY5× · 2020–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +45%
Funded once
- HHHANA HEALTHone grant, 2023 · $600k · revenue -12%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCOone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +24%
- OLOAKLAND LITERACY COALITIONone grant, 2021 · $350k
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.
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,…
Asian Health Services (AHS) provides a continuum of medical care, mental health care, dental care and other healthcare services for all, including health education; perinatal services; behavioral health; family and youth services;…
The mission is to build health equity in silicon valley.
To provide dignity, respect and choice for persons with developmental disabilities
Improve the quality of life for individuals in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Solano County, Monterey County, Sacramento County and the surrounding area in the State of California.
To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
Delivering compassionate support and exceptional care in the home for individuals and communities, guiding them with choice and dignity to navigate significant care decisions.
Community Housing Sonoma County creates supportive housing communities for people living with disabling conditions, especially veterans.
To enhance the lives of people with developmental and other disabilities by creating quality, affordable housing options.
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,…
Our mission is to improve the health of our patients and the community and advocate the feminist goals of social, political, & economic equality.
How this is measured
238 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. 238 of the 300 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 SAN FRANCISCO FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds HAWAII FOODBANK INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HANA HEALTH ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARY'S COLLEGE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF THE DIOCESE OF SANTA ROSA ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO UNIVERSITY HIGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Mount St Joseph-St Elizabeth ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Homeward Bound of Marin ↗
- Who funds THE REDWOODS A COMMUNITY OF SENIORS ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BASKET INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA PACIFIC MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CURIODYSSEY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALOHA UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds WOODLAND MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION DBA WOODLAND HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Vivalon ↗
- Who funds KATHERINE DELMAR BURKE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds Kapi'olani Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds Order of Malta Clinic of Northern California ↗
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: Bothin Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · East Bay Community Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Sonoma County Community Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Tipping Point Community · Heffernan Group Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The William G Irwin Charity Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The William G Irwin Charity Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
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