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Voorhis Foundation at a glance

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Voorhis 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.

$1.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$1.0M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$6.6MYouth Development$989kHuman Services$239k
02FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
  • $250k+2 grants · $1.4M
$400,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YU MING CHARTER SCHOOL$1,000,000
ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION$400,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO$66,000
02The need
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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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 87% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $400k → 7%PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $50k → 8%KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $1.0M → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $555k → 10%BRAVEN INCORPORATED: $20k → 14%STANFORD UNIVERSITY - JOHN W GARDNER CENTER FOR YO: $456k → 8%YU MING CHARTER SCHOOL: $1.0M → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $333k → 10%ONEGOAL: $50k → 14%SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC: $500k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $66k → 10%ONEGOAL: $50k → 14%SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC: $500k → 10%BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $15k → 10%SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC: $500k → 10%SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC: $500k → 10%KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $500k → 10%KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $80k → 10%KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $77k → 10%KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $4k → 10%ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $200k → 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.
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$5.3M · 5 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
4

Total granted

$5.3M
$764k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+329%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 32% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationYouth 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

  • KB
    KIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS
    3× · 2019–2021 · $1.7M · revenue +82%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO
    4× · 2020–2024 · $969k · revenue +15%
  • AG
    ALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
    2× · 2019–2024 · $600k · revenue +329%

Funded once

  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERSITY - JOHN W GARDNER CENTER FOR YO
    one grant, 2021 · $456k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $239k
  • PC
    PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +3%
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 Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
2
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
3
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
4
The San Francisco School

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.

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5
San Francisco University High School

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.

Education
6
Mastery Charter High School

All students learn the academic and personal skills they need to be truly prepared for postsecondary success and able to pursue their dreams.

Education
7
Mark Day School

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.

—
8
Association of California School Administrators

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.

—
9
South Shore Charter School

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…

Education
10
San Francisco Friends School

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…

Education
11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College

Scu is a catholic and jesuit institution that makes student learning its central focus, promotes faculty and staff learning in its various forms, and exhibits organizational learning.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alder Graduate School of Education; the most unlike its peers is The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. 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

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
8/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC: $2,000,000 · EducationSILICON SCHOOLS FUND INCKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $1,660,500 · EducationKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLSYU MING CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000,000 · EducationYU MING CHARTER SCHOOLTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $783,371 · EducationTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITYALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $600,000 · EducationALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATIONBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $969,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CL…ONEGOAL: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentONEGOAL+1 more: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentSTANFORD UNIVERSITY - JOHN W GARDNER CENTER FOR YO: $455,508 · OtherSTANFORD U…Individual grant recipient: $238,500 · OtherIndividual…PIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $50,000 · OtherPIVOTAL CO…
Education$6,043,871Youth Development$1,089,000Other$744,008

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

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSILICON SCHOOLS FUND INC: $2,000,000 over 4y, 7.5% of budgetKIPP BAY AREA SCHOOLS: $1,660,500 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetYU MING CHARTER SCHOOL: $1,000,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF SAN FRANCISCO: $969,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY: $783,371 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALDER GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION: $600,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetONEGOAL: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetPIVOTAL CONNECTIONS: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBRAVEN INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

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…Charles and Helen Sch…The William & Flora H…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …
Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA14.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    0get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
    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 11 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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