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Violet World 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.

$435k
Granted FY2025still arriving
40
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$55k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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 2025.

Arts & Culture$667kHuman Services$634kHealth$559kYouth Development$389kCommunity Improvement$254kEnvironment$188kEducation$149kRecreation & Sports$146kOther$0
02FY2025 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $119k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $211k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
$8,500
Median grant
6
States reached
$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GOOD SAMARITAN FAMILY RESOURCE CENTER OF SAN FRANCISCO$55,000
THE LAB$50,000
MANDELA PARTNERS$28,000
SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FDN$27,500
JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER$17,000
THE LAB$15,000
MYPATH$14,000
ART OF YOGA PROJECT$12,500
ROOT DIVISION$11,000
BAYVIEW HUNTERS POINT CENTER FOR THE ARTS - BAYCAT$11,000
HOMELESS PRENATAL PROGRAM$11,000
BRAVA FOR WOMEN IN THE ARTS$11,000
SAN FRANCISCO BIRTH CENTER FOUNDATION$11,000
GRID ALTERNATIVES$11,000
CREATIVITY EXPLORED$11,000
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 (FY17–25, $238k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 65% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $13k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $10k → 8%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $4k → 10%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $10k → 8%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $2k → 10%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $10k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $10k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $10k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $10k → 8%ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $10k → 8%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 10%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 10%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $6k → 10%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $5k → 10%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 10%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 10%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $23k → 10%CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $4k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $23k → 10%NATURAL RESOURCES ALL FAMILIES FDN INC: $3k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $9k → 10%NATURAL RESOURCES ALL FAMILIES FDN INC: $3k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $9k → 10%NATURAL RESOURCES ALL FAMILIES FDN INC: $3k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $9k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $8k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $8k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $8k → 10%AT THE CROSSROADS: $8k → 10%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.

Which US states its grants reach

MI
NY
MA
OR
IA
CT
CA
VA
TN
DC
HI
GA
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.3M · 59 repeat orgs$69k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +28% for those funded once.

59 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
19

Total granted

$3.3M
$64k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+28%

Still filing today

90%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureInternationalCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • GS
    Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco
    9× · 2017–2025 · $475k · revenue +184%
  • MP
    Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $234k · revenue +135%
  • SF
    SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $228k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • B
    BAYCAT
    one grant, 2017 · $16k
  • LP
    LUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • DIRECT RELIEFgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +94%
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.

1
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
2
Jobs with Justice San Francisco

A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…

Employment
3
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
4
California Forward

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,…

Public Benefit
5
Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education
6
San Francisco Film Society

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…

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7
Unitedly

Unitedly is a nonprofit organization based in San Mateo County, California. Unitedly was established to ensure Asian families and communities have access to equitable opportunities and resources to thrive in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Human Services
8
Northern California Grantmakers

regions most pressing social issues. We pool resources, share information, work together, and learn from each other. NCG recognizes that the challenges facing our communities are complex, entrenched and interconnected.

Philanthropy
9
San Francisco Public Press

The mission of the San Francisco Public Press is to enrich civic life by publishing investigative and solutions journalism that engages diverse audiences and promotes public accountability. The San Francisco Public Press…

Education
10
Santa Cruz Local Inc

Independent nonpartisan newsroom serving Santa Cruz County, California we are all watching and engaged in our local government, our needs are addressed, democracy works better and our community is stronger.

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11
Justice Funders

Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.

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12
Sacramento Region Community Foundation

The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The San Francisco Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Ctznwell Inc. 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

78 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. 78 of the 90 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)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/78
Grantees still filing
56/78
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco: $475,000 · OtherGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San FranciscoYOUTH RADIO: $221,000 · OtherYOUTH RADIOTHE LAB SF: $145,000 · OtherTHE LAB SFMyPath: $124,500 · OtherMyPathGRID ALTERNATIVES: $108,000 · OtherGRID ALTERNATIVESCounterPulse: $78,000 · Other+51 more: $635,000 · Other+51 moreSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $227,500 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO GE…Homeless Prenatal Program Inc: $93,000 · HealthHomeless Prenata…CREATIVITY EXPLORED INC: $93,000 · HealthCREATIVITY EXPLO…FIRST RESPONDERS SUPPORT NETWORK: $32,000 · HealthFIRST RESPONDERS…PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $22,500 · HealthSAN FRANCISCO BIRTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $22,000 · Health+2 more: $22,500 · HealthRoot Division: $98,000 · Arts & CultureRoot Divis…Brava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center: $93,000 · Arts & CultureBrava for …Southern Exposure: $46,500 · Arts & CultureSouthern E…The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated: $41,500 · Arts & CultureThe Bay Ar…Randall Museum Friends: $20,000 · Arts & CultureRandall Mu…+2 more: $12,500 · Arts & CultureMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc: $234,000 · Community ImprovementMandela P…Bayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT: $30,000 · Community ImprovementBayview-H…Matter of Trust: $13,500 · Community ImprovementMain Street Launch: $12,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $7,500 · Community ImprovementAT THE CROSSROADS: $100,500 · Human ServicesTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $82,500 · Human ServicesCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $42,500 · Human Services+3 more: $13,500 · Human ServicesJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $146,000 · Recreation & SportsDestiny Arts Center: $28,000 · Recreation & SportsLIVE OAK A LEARNING CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $94,400 · EducationSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $40,000 · EducationMission Kids: $30,000 · Education+2 more: $5,000 · Education
Other$1,786,500Health$512,500Arts & Culture$311,500Community Improvement$297,500Human Services$239,000Recreation & Sports$174,000Education$169,400

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 budgetGood Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco: $475,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetMandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc: $234,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $227,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH RADIO: $221,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetJAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER: $146,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetTHE LAB SF: $145,000 over 9y, 9.1% of budgetMyPath: $124,500 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetAT THE CROSSROADS: $100,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetRoot Division: $98,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetLIVE OAK A LEARNING CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $94,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHomeless Prenatal Program Inc: $93,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBrava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center: $93,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCREATIVITY EXPLORED INC: $93,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetTHE ART OF YOGA PROJECT: $82,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetCounterPulse: $78,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetSANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION: $46,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Exposure: $46,500 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER: $42,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated: $41,500 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL GOOD FUND INC: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFIRST RESPONDERS SUPPORT NETWORK: $32,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetMission Kids: $30,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetNATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Center for Investigative Reporting Inc: $30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT: $30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUrban Tilth: $28,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDestiny Arts Center: $28,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWomens Audio Mission: $26,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmah Mutsun Land Trust: $26,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetLOTUS BLOOM: $26,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC: $22,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAN FRANCISCO BIRTH CENTER FOUNDATION: $22,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetEducation Outside: $20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRandall Museum Friends: $20,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetMindful Life Project: $15,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC HEALTH FOUNDATION ENTERPRISES INC: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMatter of Trust: $13,500 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetROOTS COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMain Street Launch: $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CONTRA COSTA AND SOLANO: $11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetELLA BAKER CENTER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: $10,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetConservative Energy Network: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLUCILE PACKARD FOUNDATION FOR CHILDREN'S HEALTH: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEI FONG AND ASSOCIATES AWS: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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 Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco ↗
  • Who funds Mandela Partners Prev Mandela Marketplace Inc ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO GENERAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH RADIO ↗
  • Who funds JAMESTOWN COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE LAB SF ↗
  • Who funds MyPath ↗
  • Who funds AT THE CROSSROADS ↗
  • Who funds Root Division ↗
  • Who funds LIVE OAK A LEARNING CENTER FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Homeless Prenatal Program Inc ↗
  • Who funds Brava for Women in the Arts dba Brava Theater Center ↗
  • Who funds CREATIVITY EXPLORED INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ART OF YOGA PROJECT ↗
  • Who funds CounterPulse ↗
  • Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Southern Exposure ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL AMERICAN RESOURCE CENTER ↗
  • Who funds The Bay Area Video Coalition Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds FIRST RESPONDERS SUPPORT NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds Mission Kids ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting Inc ↗
  • Who funds Bayview-Hunters Point Center for Arts and Technology DBA BAYCAT ↗
  • Who funds Urban Tilth ↗
  • Who funds Destiny Arts Center ↗
  • Who funds Womens Audio Mission ↗
  • Who funds Amah Mutsun Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds LOTUS BLOOM ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD SOUTHEAST INC ↗
  • Who funds SAN FRANCISCO BIRTH CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Education Outside ↗
  • Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
  • Who funds Randall Museum Friends ↗

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.

The San Francisco Fou…Silicon Valley Commun…The William & Flora H…Walter and Elise Haas…The Zellerbach Family…East Bay Community Fo…Tides FoundationKenneth Rainin Founda…The California Wellne…McNabb FoundationThe James Irvine Foun…Crankstart Foundation
The San Francisco FoundationCA52.8× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Walter and Elise Haas Fund · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Crankstart Foundation

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 Violet World Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Violet World Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
  • Seeding Justice: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 90 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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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home