· Private foundation
Virginia Lopez Foundation
Its FY2019 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
87% of Virginia Lopez Foundation’s FY2019 grant dollars went to Schwab Charitable Fund, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2019 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2018, the last year Virginia Lopez Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $161k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2019.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2018
- Under $10k11 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $116k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EAST HARLEM SCHOOL AT EXODUS HOUSE | $115,700 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SOLVE MECFS INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| DARTMOUTH | $5,000 |
| EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE | $3,090 |
| COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES | $1,000 |
| MISSION HIGH FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| TEACH WITH AFRICA | $1,000 |
| EDUCATION OUTSIDE | $1,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU) | $1,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT FUND | $515 |
| 21st CENTURY FOUNDATION | $500 |
| ONE PURPOSE SCHOOL | $500 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS VA | $265 |
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 (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 63% of Virginia Lopez Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
5 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call). Read against FY2018, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2019, 92% 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
- SMSOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +16%
- RHRUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC2× · 2017–2018 · $20k · revenue +44%
- CFCOMPASS FAMILY SERVICES2× · 2017–2018 · $2k · revenue +283%
Funded once
- ESEXODUS SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue -9%
- ASATHLETIC SCHOLARS ADVANCEMENT PROGRAMone grant, 2017 · $20k
- IBIMAGINE BUS PROJECTone grant, 2017 · $9k
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.
At san franicisco university high school, we engage our community of diverse voices in a transformational experience that embraces the spirited pursuit of learning and empowers purpose larger than self.
A private school that cultivates and celebrates the intellectual, imaginative, and humanitarian promise of each student in a community that practices mutual respect, embraces diversity, and inspires passion for learning.
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…
Innovative and full of heart, mark day school nurtures each child to pursue their curiosity, think critically, embrace challenge with courage and joy, and work in partnership with others to build more caring and inclusive communities.
At san francisco friends school, students learn in a community grounded in the quaker values of reflection, integrity, peaceful problem-solving and stewardship. our teachers challenge students with a dynamic curriculum that inspires…
The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Compass charter school is a safe and nurturing educational environment that honors the individuality of each learner. by engaging in a process of inquiry, our graduates will be equipped with the necessary skills to lead fulfilling personal…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.
Under the auspices of the united nations and guided by its ideals, the united nations international school (unis) provides an inclusive and diverse learning environment in which rigorous international programs foster academic excellence,…
How this is measured
19 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. 19 of the 27 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 DONOR ADVISED CHARITABLE GIVING INC ↗
- Who funds SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds EXODUS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds RUMSEY HALL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE DARTMOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds IMAGINE BUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds COMPASS FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE CHARLES ARMSTRONG SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Education Outside ↗
- Who funds Mission High Foundation ↗
- Who funds TEACH WITH AFRICA ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL IMPACT FUND ↗
- Who funds San Francisco Education Fund ↗
- Who funds ONE PURPOSE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CITY COLLEGE 21ST CENTURY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Rmlow Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Virginia Lopez Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Virginia Lopez Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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