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Washington Sycip Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL CONSERVATION | $10,000 |
| PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY | $3,000 |
| UC DAVIS FOUNDATION | $1,800 |
| PHILLIPINE INTERNATIONAL AID | $1,500 |
| THE STANFORD FUND | $500 |
| FINE ARTS MUSEUM | $318 |
| CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES | $318 |
| HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL | $200 |
| SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD | $200 |
| GOLDEN GATE NAT'L PARK | $125 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA | $70 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50 |
| KQED | $50 |
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 (FY21–21, $200) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against -8% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $318 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
- GCGLOBAL CONSERVATION4× · 2020–2024 · $13k · revenue +56%
- TUTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $11k · revenue +93%
- TATHE ASIA FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $5k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- KKADAKAREERone grant, 2022 · $5k
- TATHE ASIA SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue -3%
MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +116%
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.
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…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The agriculture & food systems institute (afsi) is a non-profit organization that advances and disseminates science for public benefit. our mission is to achieve safe and sustainable agri-food systems by providing thought leadership and…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
The purpose of rainforest foundation us is to support indigenous peoples and forest communities in their efforts to secure their lands, protect their environment, and uphold their rights.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
Sfs creates transformative study abroad experiences through field-based learning and research. our educational programs explore the human and ecological dimensions of the complex environmental problems faced by our local partners,…
The ifrs foundation's mission is to develop ifrs standards that bring transparency, accountability and efficiency to capital markets around the world. our work serves the public interest by fostering trust, growth and long-term financial…
The aquarium of the pacific's mission is to instill a sense of wonder, respect, and stewardship for the pacific ocean, its inhabitants, and ecosystems.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Asia Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Piedmont Beautification Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 49 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
30 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. 30 of the 54 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 International Institute of Rural Reconstruction ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HERITAGE FUND ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PHILLIPS EXETER ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds PHILIPPINE INTERNATIONAL AID ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds EARTHWAYS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wildflowers Institute ↗
- Who funds THE ASIA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL YEAR ABROAD INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIATORS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Stepping Stones Wilderness Initiati ↗
- Who funds KQED INC ↗
- Who funds The American Himalayan Foundation ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL HOUSE ↗
- Who funds ASIAN PACIFIC FUND ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO AIDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASIAN ART MUSEUM FOUNDATION OF SAN FRANCISCO ↗
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: The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Washington Sycip 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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