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Urbanek Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$520k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$505kEnvironment$405kPhilanthropy$269kHealth$222kInternational$215kHuman Services$190kHousing & Shelter$185kOther$0
02FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $415k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$25,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOTHILL DEANZA FOUNDATION$50,000
LIFEMOVES$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE PENINSUL$40,000
SMCCC FOUNDATION$30,000
EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL$30,000
PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST$30,000
SAMARITAN HOUSE$30,000
SAN DIEGO CANYONLANDS$30,000
ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM$30,000
CHARLOTTE MAXWELL CLINIC$25,000
PREUSS SCHOOL$25,000
JOBTRAIN$25,000
WOODSIDE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION$20,000
HEALTHY CITIES TUTORING$20,000
LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, 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.

area typical 9%COMMONWEAL: $5k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$4.0M · 39 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.

39 repeat relationships: 18 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
10

Total granted

$4.0M
$95k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+33%

Still filing today

72%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureEnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • FC
    FOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · $358k · revenue +11%
  • PO
    PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST
    7× · 2017–2024 · $185k · revenue +164%
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION
    6× · 2017–2022 · $180k · revenue +82%

Funded once

  • RAZOM INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -65%
  • RC
    REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -96%
  • US
    UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +33%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Silicon Valley Education Foundation

Who we are - silicon valley education foundation (svef) focuses on raising student performance in the critical areas of math and science across all 33 santa clara county school districts, and also adjoining san mateo and alameda counties.…

Community Improvement
2
Enterprise for Youth

Enterprise for youth empowers under-resourced san francisco youths to reach their potential through transformative paid internship experiences supported by a community of employers, caring adults, and peers.

Youth Development
3
The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy
4
Public Advocates Inc

For more than five decades, public advocates has challenged the systemic causes of poverty and racial discrimination by strengthening community voices in public policy and achieving tangible legal victories advancing education, housing,…

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5
The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education
6
Presidio Hill School

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…

Education
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Golden Gate University

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…

Education
9
The International School of San Francisco

Guided by the principles of academic rigor and diversity, the international school of san francisco offers programs of study in french and english to prepare its graduates for a world in which the ability to think critically and to…

Education
10
California Dental Association

The california dental association is committed to the success of our members in service to their patients and the public.

Community Improvement
11
California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech
12
Stem Advantage

Talent is equally distributed, but opportunity is not. STEM Advantage mentors, prepares, and inspires first-generation, low-income, and underserved college students for careers in science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM). We level…

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation Santa Cruz County; the most unlike its peers is League to Save Lake Tahoe. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 54 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
27/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $510,400 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSMCCC FOUNDATION: $239,000 · OtherSMCCC FOUNDATIONLIFEMOVES: $180,000 · OtherLIFEMOVESSAMARITAN HOUSE: $165,000 · OtherSAMARITAN HOUSECharlotte Maxwell Clinic: $125,000 · OtherCharlotte Maxwell ClinicPREUSS SCHOOL: $125,000 · OtherPREUSS SCHOOLTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $75,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $110,000 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULAECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $100,000 · OtherLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $90,000 · Other+19 more: $331,500 · Other+19 moreEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $165,000 · EducationEASTSIDE COLLEG…WOODSIDE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $130,000 · EducationWOODSIDE HIGH S…RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $65,000 · EducationRAVENSWOOD EDUC…MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · EducationMARINE CORPS SC…HEALTHY CITIES TUTORING INC: $50,000 · EducationHEALTHY CITIES …Teach for America Inc: $40,000 · EducationTeach for Ameri…PORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $30,000 · EducationPORTOLA VALLEY …+1 more: $10,000 · EducationSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $360,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO …SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO …KQED INC: $55,000 · Arts & CultureKQED INCSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $30,000 · Arts & CultureSAN FRANCISCO …+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $358,000 · PhilanthropyFOOTHILL-D…+4 more: $40,000 · Philanthropy+4 morePENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $185,000 · EnvironmentSAN DIEGO CANYONLANDS INC: $115,000 · Environment+1 more: $5,000 · EnvironmentINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $180,000 · InternationalRAZOM INC: $20,000 · InternationalWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $15,000 · InternationalJOBTRAIN INC: $115,000 · Employment
Other$2,050,900Education$550,000Arts & Culture$515,000Philanthropy$398,000Environment$305,000International$215,000Employment$115,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSAN FRANCISCO SYMPHONY: $360,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetFOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION: $358,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST: $185,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION: $180,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLIFEMOVES: $180,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITAN HOUSE: $165,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC: $165,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWOODSIDE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION: $130,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetCharlotte Maxwell Clinic: $125,000 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetSAN DIEGO CANYONLANDS INC: $115,000 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetJOBTRAIN INC: $115,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA: $110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM: $100,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE: $90,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM: $75,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION: $65,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetKQED INC: $55,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetABLE WORKS: $50,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetHEALTHY CITIES TUTORING INC: $50,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetKARA: $20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetRAZOM INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL: $15,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBREAST CANCER ACTION: $11,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE EXPLORATORIUM: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE BAY AREA: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LAW ALLIANCE WORLDWIDE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFEEDING SAN DIEGO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMONWEAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMendocino Land Trust: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALPHA PROJECT FOR THE HOMELESS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds FOOTHILL-DEANZA COMMUNITY COLLEGES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PENINSULA OPEN SPACE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION ↗
  • Who funds LIFEMOVES ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds EASTSIDE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds WOODSIDE HIGH SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Charlotte Maxwell Clinic ↗
  • Who funds SAN DIEGO CANYONLANDS INC ↗
  • Who funds JOBTRAIN INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF THE PENINSULA ↗
  • Who funds ECUMENICAL HUNGER PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds LEAGUE TO SAVE LAKE TAHOE ↗
  • Who funds THE PENINSULA BRIDGE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds RAVENSWOOD EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO OPERA ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds KQED INC ↗
  • Who funds ABLE WORKS ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY CITIES TUTORING INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BALLET ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds PORTOLA VALLEY SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds KARA ↗
  • Who funds RAZOM INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD AFFAIRS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds BREAST CANCER ACTION ↗
  • Who funds THE EXPLORATORIUM ↗

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.

Silicon Valley Commun…The David and Lucile …Jewish Community Fede…Philanthropic Venture…The San Francisco Fou…Atkinson FoundationThe Sobrato Family Fo…Gordon E and Betty I …Kaiser Foundation Hos…The Palo Alto Communi…Vanguard Charitable E…Morgan Stanley Global…
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA25.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Atkinson Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · The Palo Alto Community Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Urbanek Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Urbanek Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
    typical government reliance, FY20–25
    How this is measured
    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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
    05Through Plinth

    Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

    How do I get to Urbanek Family Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Urbanek 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.

    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 54 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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