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Travers Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2025
8
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$88,514
Largest grant, FY2025
$1,227,658
Organizations funded a year
8 to 10
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$105M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Travers Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving9$1.8M11%
FY20248$1.6M0%
FY20239$1.4M0%
FY20229$1.5M0%
FY20219$1.5M0%
FY202010$1.6Mn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$5.2MHuman Services$1.3MAnimals$631kPublic Benefit$403kHousing & Shelter$55kHealth$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc$1,187,07260%
East Bay Spca$683,21662%
The Commonwealth Club - World Affairs of California$491,70161%
Semper Fi & America's Fund$427,50060%
Humane Society Silicon Valley$122,97460%
Marin Center for Indenpendent Living$65,00061%
Lighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired$25,00040%
Mill Valley Philharmonic$10,000111%
Grand Beginnings$3,00011%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Travers Family Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGuide Dogs for the Blind Inc: $1,187,072 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetEast Bay Spca: $683,216 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetThe Commonwealth Club - World Affairs of California: $491,701 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetSemper Fi & America's Fund: $427,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHumane Society Silicon Valley: $122,974 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetMarin Center for Indenpendent Living: $65,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetLighthouse for the Blind and Visually Impaired: $25,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMill Valley Philharmonic: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetGrand Beginnings: $3,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 9.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Amazonsmile Foundation
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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Travers Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Travers Family 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.

About Travers Family Foundation

How much does Travers Family Foundation give?
Travers Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $1,816,172 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 10 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Travers Family Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (68%), Human Services (17%), Animals (8%).
Who are Travers Family Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc ($1.2M), East Bay Spca ($683k), The Commonwealth Club - World Affairs of California ($492k).
Does Travers Family Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Travers Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Travers Family Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is Travers Family Foundation based?
Travers Family Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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