· Private foundation
Tomlinson 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k19 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $345k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $646k
- $250k+1 grant · $251k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $251,000 |
| PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM | $200,000 |
| NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY | $100,000 |
| CHALLENGE SUCCESS | $100,000 |
| BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE | $86,111 |
| BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE | $60,000 |
| TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY | $50,000 |
| SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY | $50,000 |
| ART OF YOGA PROJECT | $42,500 |
| HRJ CHARITIES INC | $40,000 |
| SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY | $27,000 |
| AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| 7 LAKES ALLIANCE | $25,000 |
| SANTA CLARA UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSULA | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $158k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% 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 +50% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
45 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
TRINITY COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +31%- TGTHE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +109%
- BRBERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE9× · 2017–2025 · $973k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- AHANDOVER HIGH BOYS BASKETBALL BOOSTER CLUB INCone grant, 2020 · $25k
- TPTHE POSSE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue -3%
- KEKilauea Elementary Schoolone grant, 2024 · $5k
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.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
Golden gate university prepares individuals to lead and serve by providing high quality, practice-based educational programs in law, taxation, business and related professions - as a nonprofit institution - in an innovative and challenging…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
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…
Presidio hill school is a co-ed k-8 independent, progressive school. learning is collaborative and an active experience with an emphasis on inquiry. students are engaged in their own learning and guided by an expert faculty through a…
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.
Ca fwd drives action to identify solutions that can be taken to scale to meet the challenges the state is facing. the organization is driven by the belief that regional solutions across the state will help ensure economic, environmental,…
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.
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
How this is measured
77 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. 77 of the 85 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 TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE GIRLS' MIDDLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PENINSULA ARTS GUILD ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds Challenge Success ↗
- Who funds THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
- Who funds THE ART OF YOGA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds TIPPING POINT COMMUNITY ↗
- Who funds HRJ CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 7 LAKES ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY SOCIAL VENTURE FUND - SV2 ↗
- Who funds AGAWAM COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds KAMUKAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
- Who funds THE FIT KIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds COMMON SENSE MEDIA ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds 350 BAY AREA ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OPERATIONS WARRIOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BROOKS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CalMatters ↗
- Who funds CAMP RUNOIA ALUMNAE ORGANIZATION ↗
- Who funds Bay Area Womens Sports Initiative ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD MAR MONTE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE POSSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Marin Community Foundation · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Hrj Charities Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Tomlinson Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Tomlinson Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
- Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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