· Private foundation
Travers Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $3k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $556k
- $250k+1 grant · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UC BERKELEY FOUNDATION | $1,227,658 |
| GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND | $201,000 |
| EAST BAY SPCA | $165,000 |
| THE SEMPER FI FUND | $101,000 |
| COMMONWEALTH CLUB OF CALIFORNIA | $88,514 |
| MARIN CENTER FOR INDEPENDENT LIVING | $10,000 |
| MILL VALLEY PHILHARMONIC | $10,000 |
| HUMANE SOCIETY OF SILICON VALLEY | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–23, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +18%- EBEAST BAY SPCA6× · 2020–2025 · $683k · revenue +39%
- SFSEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND6× · 2020–2025 · $428k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- GBGRAND BEGINNINGSgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +72%
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.
To ensure every companion animal has access to quality medical care, compassionate shelter, and a loving home.
The SPCA Monterey County's Mission is assuring compassionate treatment of all animals through rescue, rehabilitation, protection and education. The SPCA shelters homeless, neglected, and abused pets, including dogs, cats, horses, exotic…
Santa barbara humane operates two campuses located in santa barbara and santa maria providing care for community-owned and homeless animals. both campuses offer affordable high quality veterinary care, compassionate behavior training…
Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.
The organizations mission is to transform lives through partnerships with service dogs.the organization provides professionally trained, expertly matched service dogs and personalized instruction in their care and use to people who are…
In addition to rescue and adoption, pet orphans provides a wide range of services including education, medical/financial, spay/neuter, and training assistance.
To improve the health of our patients and community by providing high quality, cost-effective, culturally sensitive, patient-centered health care.
SVILC builds disability identity, culture, pride, creating opportunities for personal and community transformation, and partnering with others to ensure that civil and human rights are protected.
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,…
To provide the means by which people who are visually impaired can improve and sustain their capabilities and potentials to re-establish purpose and self-esteem in their lives and in society, while leading independent lives.
Mission: to protect animals and build connections between pets and people through advocacy and education. vision: leading and guiding a humane lake county core values: compassion for pets and people. engagement through innovative programs,…
Silicon valley pet project (svpp) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization committed to saving local at-risk shelter pets through rescue, community involvement and education.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 11 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 GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds EAST BAY SPCA ↗
- Who funds THE COMMONWEALTH CLUB - WORLD AFFAIRS OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds SEMPER FI & AMERICA'S FUND ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds MARIN CENTER FOR INDENPENDENT LIVING ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE FOR THE BLIND AND VISUALLY IMPAIRED ↗
- Who funds MILL VALLEY PHILHARMONIC ↗
- Who funds GRAND BEGINNINGS ↗
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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Travers Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Travers Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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