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The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation

The Foundation is organized and operated to make gifts to other section 501c3 organizations that engage in activities that a improve the quality of life and community b further the professional and educational interest of the legal profession and c conduct charitable educational and or community activities.

$2.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
335
Grants FY2025still arriving
18
States reached
$135k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Crime & Legal$4.4MCivil Rights$1.5MInternational$613kHealth$607kFood & Nutrition$571kHuman Services$491kArts & Culture$380kEducation$374kOther$0
02FY2025 · 335 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k254 grants · $885k
  • $10k–50k71 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $903k
$5,000
Median grant
18
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Bay Area Legal Aid$135,000
Law Foundation of Silicon Valley$133,820
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto$101,000
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area$98,100
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area$98,100
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area$98,100
California Community Foundation$68,233
Center for Justice & Accountability$61,000
Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles$60,000
World Central Kitchen$50,000
Stanford University$42,500
Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums$39,070
Tahirih Justice Center$35,000
Combined Campaign for Justice$35,000
Legal Aid at Work$35,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $252k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%MinKwon Center for Community Action: $12k → 13%Right to Be: $500 → 20%A Precious Child: $500 → 5%MinKwon Center for Community Action: $12k → 13%Bridge House: $2k → 12%MinKwon Center for Community Action Inc: $12k → 13%Vigilant Torch Foundation: $5k → 6%MinKwon Center for Community Action Inc: $10k → 13%Utah Foster Care Foundation: $1k → 8%MinKwon Center for Community Action: $9k → 13%MinKwon Center for Community Action: $9k → 13%Sound Generations: $1k → 9%Horizons for Homeless Children: $500 → 16%Hillsides: $1k → 14%Horizons for Homeless Children: $500 → 16%Asian Association of Utah: $500 → 8%Nuevo Amanecer Latino Children s Services: $1k → 14%The Road Home: $500 → 8%Start Small Think Big: $5k → 17%University District Service League: $14k → 9%Ayudando Latinos A Sonar: $1k → 7%University District Service League: $8k → 9%Disability Rights Washington: $2k → 9%Skys the Limit Fund: $10k → 8%Skys the Limit Fund: $10k → 8%Skys the Limit Fund: $10k → 8%Sky s the Limit Fund: $10k → 8%Ayuda: $3k → 14%Skys the Limit Fund: $10k → 8%Skys the Limit Fund: $10k → 8%Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence: $15k → 8%Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence: $10k → 8%Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence: $10k → 8%Project Glimmer: $500 → 10%Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence: $10k → 8%Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence: $10k → 8%Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence: $10k → 8%Lawyers for Good Government Inc: $15k → 14%Raphael House of San Francisco: $3k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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IL
MI
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
KS
DC
HI
OK
LA
AL
GA
TX

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.6M · 100 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

100 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 152 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
24

Total granted

$8.6M
$381k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+8%

Still filing today

99%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $768k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Crime & LegalEducationHuman ServicesHealthCivil RightsFood & NutritionOther

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

  • BA
    BAY AREA LEGAL AID
    6× · 2020–2025 · $765k · revenue +46%
  • LF
    Law Foundation of Silicon Valley
    6× · 2020–2025 · $764k · revenue +18%
  • LC
    Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area
    6× · 2020–2025 · $594k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • AF
    AMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM
    one grant, 2023 · $75k · revenue -51%
  • DIRECT RELIEF
    one grant, 2022 · $57k · revenue +8%
  • MAUI FOOD BANK INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +138%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
2
Inner City Law Center

In 2024, Inner City Law Center, ICLC, served over 3,400 people, helping vulnerable Angelenos to remain in their homes and recover nearly $20.5 million in financial benefits.

Crime & Legal
3
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
4
The Bar Association of San Francisco

The bar association of san francisco champions equal access to justice and promotes humanity, excellence, and diversity in the legal profession. we provide legal services to disadvantaged and underserved individuals in san francisco. we…

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5
Legal Aid Association of California

The Legal Aid Association of California, the statewide membership of legal services nonprofits, serves its members through advocacy and other support in efforts to provide legal assistance to low-income Californians and ensure access to…

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6
Legal Link

Legal Link removes legal barriers that prolong poverty by adding critically needed capacity to the legal ecosystem.

Crime & Legal
7
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco

La Raza Centro Legal San Francisco provides high quality, highly trusted, free legal services to low-income or immigrant clients in the San Francisco Bay Area.

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8
Family Violence Law Center

FVLC helps diverse communities in Alameda County heal from domestic violence and sexual assault, advocating for justice and healthy relationships. We provide survivor-centered legal and crisis intervention services, offer prevention for…

Crime & Legal
9
Legal Aid Justice Center

The legal aid justice center partners with communities and clients to achieve justice by dismantling systems that create and perpetuate poverty.

Crime & Legal
10
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California

The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…

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11
Equal Justice Center

The Equal Justice Center is a non-profit law firm and employment justice organization which empowers low-income families, workers, and communities to achieve fair treatment in the workplace, in the justice system, and in our shared society…

Civil Rights
12
Central California Legal Services Inc

Central california legal services is a private, not-for-profit, public interest law firm established for the purpose of providing free civil legal assistance to low-income individuals, families, organizations and communities.

Crime & Legal

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Her Justice Inc and the most unlike its peers is Blue Nevus Melanoma Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity College Foundatio…Jewish Community Organizati…Local History MuseumsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Military Veterans SupportLgbtq+ Community SupportDance Arts OrganizationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Pregnancy Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Immigrant Worker SupportYouth Development ServicesPublic Library OperationsDomestic Violence ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Affordable Housing Construc…Local Food System Organizat…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Health Access Advocacy and …Cancer Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesPolicy Research and Advocacy
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number24%2%<5yr15%4%5–10yr20%16%10–20yr17%27%20–35yr11%35%35–55yr13%16%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value24%0%<5yr15%1%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr17%23%20–35yr11%40%35–55yr13%24%55yr+

The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.4%1/284
the rest of the field
14%
26,003/186,694

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.

04the grantee network

280 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. 280 of the 284 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
279/280
Grantees still filing
153/280
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Law Foundation of Silicon Valley — $763,600 · Crime & LegalLaw Foundation of Silicon ValleyCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc — $291,000 · Crime & LegalCommunity Legal Services in East…WORLD JUSTICE PROJECT — $260,000 · Crime & LegalWORLD JUSTICE PROJECTCENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY — $245,700 · Crime & LegalCENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABIL…Legal Aid at Work — $210,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid at WorkLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County — $185,000 · Crime & LegalLegal Aid Society of San Mateo C…COMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC — $135,000 · Crime & Legal+32 more — $735,174 · Crime & Legal+32 moreBAY AREA LEGAL AID — $765,000 · OtherBAY AREA LEGAL AIDLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area — $593,867 · OtherLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Fr…RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA — $152,360 · Other+89 more — $2,744,122 · Other+89 moreNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $203,244 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $133,324 · Civil RightsEqual Justice Society — $89,400 · Civil RightsTHE TAHIRIH JUSTICE CENTER — $50,000 · Civil RightsGIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE — $45,000 · Civil RightsAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF LOUISIANA — $45,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE FOUNDATION — $40,000 · Civil RightsANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE — $25,000 · Civil Rights+8 more — $109,500 · Civil RightsWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $198,299 · InternationalHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $92,500 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc — $84,173 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $75,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $64,310 · InternationalDIRECT RELIEF — $57,205 · International+4 more — $36,500 · InternationalUC LAW SF FOUNDATION — $109,400 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $87,000 · EducationJOINT VENTURE SILICON VALLEY NETWORK — $80,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $75,000 · EducationCONSUMERS FOR A RESPONSIVE LEGAL SYSTEM — $40,000 · EducationCOLLEGE TRACK — $37,500 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE LOS ANGELES COUNTY LAW LIBRARY — $30,200 · EducationPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE — $26,750 · EducationLAW COLLEGE ASSOCIATION OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA — $20,000 · Education+8 more — $73,380 · EducationSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $213,335 · Food & NutritionCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $69,786 · Food & NutritionCentral Texas Food Bank Inc — $56,597 · Food & NutritionCITY HARVEST INC — $38,505 · Food & NutritionMAUI FOOD BANK INC — $25,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD BANK OF DELAWARE INC — $20,570 · Food & NutritionFEEDING SAN DIEGO — $20,445 · Food & Nutrition+5 more — $25,550 · Food & NutritionThe Clearity Foundation — $88,910 · HealthAIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA — $69,955 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $59,500 · HealthBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $47,869 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $45,000 · HealthLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC — $32,500 · HealthNFX — $30,000 · HealthBLUE NEVUS MELANOMA FOUNDATION — $25,000 · Health+6 more — $42,350 · Health
Crime & Legal$2,825,474Other$4,255,349Civil Rights$740,468International$607,987Education$579,230Food & Nutrition$469,788Health$441,084

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBAY AREA LEGAL AID — $765,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLaw Foundation of Silicon Valley — $763,600 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetLawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area — $593,867 over 6y, 5.7% of budgetCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc — $291,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetWORLD JUSTICE PROJECT — $260,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCENTER FOR JUSTICE & ACCOUNTABILITY — $245,700 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetSECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY — $213,335 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid at Work — $210,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $203,244 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $198,299 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County — $185,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES - BAY AREA — $152,360 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSANCTUARY FOR FAMILIES INC — $137,840 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY LEGAL AID SOCIETY INC — $135,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $133,324 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JUSTICE AND DIVERSITY CENTER OF THE BAR ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO — $110,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUC LAW SF FOUNDATION — $109,400 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetSmuin Ballet — $105,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $97,964 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA CHANGELAWYERS — $94,775 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS FIRST — $92,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBET TZEDEK — $89,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEqual Justice Society — $89,400 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetThe Clearity Foundation — $88,910 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY — $87,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $84,173 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON BAR FOUNDATION — $82,630 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER — $82,550 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetJOINT VENTURE SILICON VALLEY NETWORK — $80,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FEDERATION OF SAN FRANCISCO THE PENINSULA MARIN & SONOMA — $75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF MAGEN DAVID ADOM — $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula — $74,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY — $73,548 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH LIFELINES FOR YOUTH INC — $72,590 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALL STARS HELPING KIDS INC — $72,500 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetAIDS LEGAL REFERRAL PANEL OF THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA — $69,955 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC — $69,786 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCALIFORNIA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $68,233 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAN DIEGO VOLUNTEER LAWYER PROGRAM INC — $68,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC — $67,970 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNeighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County — $67,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLEGAL AID SOCIETY OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA — $65,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — $65,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $64,310 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATION OF THE FINE ARTS MUSEUMS — $64,070 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMINKWON CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $62,800 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetWestern Center on Law & Poverty Inc — $60,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budget
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.

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.

The Morrison & Foerst…The Sidley Austin Fou…Perkins Coie Foundati…Equal Justice WorksCalifornia Access to …The Gibson Dunn & Cru…Munger Tolles & Olson…United Way of the Bay…Littler Mendelson Fou…The San Francisco Fou…The Sobrato Family Fo…California Changelawy…
The Morrison & Foerster FoundationCA85.5× affinity41 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morrison & Foerster Foundation · The Sidley Austin Foundation · Perkins Coie Foundation · Equal Justice Works · California Access to Justice Commission · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · Munger Tolles & Olson Foundation · United Way of the Bay Area · Littler Mendelson Foundation Inc Attn Tax Manager · The San Francisco Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · California Changelawyers

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 Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%2%6%14%25%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 23%
  • Child Inc — 71% of income from government
  • Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc — 63% of income from government
  • Community Legal Aid Society Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Food Bank of Delaware Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Innocence Delaware Inc — 23% of income from government
  • Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Volunteer Lawyers for Justice in — 9% of income from government
  • Delaware Bar Foundation — 6% of income from government
  • Feed the Children Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Lawyers for Civil Rights Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
83report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

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How do I get to The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 284 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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