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Vickie Soulier Family Foundation
Its FY2020 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k10 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $22k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Polly Klaas Foundation | $300,000 |
| Marin Theater Company | $12,000 |
| Marin Athletic Foundation | $10,145 |
| Tam House | $2,500 |
| Marin Community Clinics | $2,000 |
| Assistance Dogs of Hawaii | $1,000 |
| St Vinent de Paul Society of Marin | $1,000 |
| Throckmorton Theater | $1,000 |
| Adopt a Family of Marin | $1,000 |
| Salvation Army | $1,000 |
| Ceres Community Project | $1,000 |
| Sonoma Valley Museum of Arts | $1,000 |
| Marin Humane | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–19, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2020, 1 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $308k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MAMARIN ATHLETIC FOUNDATION2× · 2018–2020 · $30k · revenue +25%
- KIKQED INC2× · 2018–2019 · $10k · revenue +22%
MARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC2× · 2018–2020 · $7k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- TYtranscenDANCE Youth Arts Projectgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $327k · revenue +279% · 78% of their budget
- LTLARK THEATERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $250k · revenue +85%
- CFCALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTEone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue -2%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
Marin academy asks every individual to think, question, and create in an environment of encouragement and compassion, and challenges each person to accept the responsibilities posed by education in a democratic society.
To support art and culture in Marin County, including enhancing the programs and facilities at the Marin Center and Marin County Fair.
The mission of the presidio theatre is to ensure that the magic of live performance is accessible to the entire community.
The monterey museum of art cultivates curiosity in the visual arts and engages community with the diversity of california art - past, present, and future.
SFFILM is a nonprofit organization whose mission ensures independent voices in film are welcomed, heard, and given the resources to thrive. SFFILM connects and inspires audiences, students and teachers, and filmmakers through our film…
To foster local, state, national or international sports competition with a particular emphasis on youth soccer.
The mission of the agricultural institute of marin is to educate, inspire, and connect communities, farmers, and producers in order to create a healthy, earth-friendly, equitable local and regional food and agricultural system.
to nurture and sustain the art, technique and expression of classical ballet and contemporary dance for students of all ages through exceptional training and education, unique and exciting choreography, (CONTINUED ON SCHEDULE O)
Senior Access's mission is to help Marin's older and disabled adults remain independent and part of the community for as long as possible.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Adopt a Family of Marin and the most unlike its peers is Berkeley Repertory Theatre. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 22 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Marin Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds transcenDANCE Youth Arts Project ↗
- Who funds POLLY KLAAS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LARK THEATER ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Vivalon ↗
- Who funds MARIN ATHLETIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BERKELEY REPERTORY THEATRE ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN COMMUNITY CLINIC ↗
- Who funds ASSISTANCE DOGS OF HAWAII ↗
- Who funds THE CERES COMMUNITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds MARIN HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ADOPT A FAMILY OF MARIN ↗
- Who funds Project Open Hand ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Valley Museum of Art ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Leonard & Beryl Buck Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Sidney and Bernice Clyman Family Foundation · Robert K & Barbara J Straus Family Foundation Inc · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 Vickie Soulier Family 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.
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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