· Private foundation
Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k26 grants · $563k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $577k
- $250k+18 grants · $62M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $20,000,000 |
| BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $8,000,000 |
| CAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| UNIVERSITY CORPORATION OF SF STATE UNIVERSITY AKA SAN FRANCISCO STATE UNIVE | $5,000,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $5,000,000 |
| BELLARMINE COLLEGE PREPARATORY | $4,000,000 |
| HEAD-ROYCE SCHOOL | $3,333,333 |
| MERCY HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500,000 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $2,150,000 |
| MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $2,134,966 |
| SCHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,250,000 |
| BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING | $1,000,000 |
| DOMINICAN SISTERS OF MISSION SAN JOSE | $750,000 |
| UCSF FOUNDATION | $510,008 |
| OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $1.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 21% of Wayne and Gladys Valley Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 74% of the giving stays in CA; read by stated purpose it is 59% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +28% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21M 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
Oregon State University Foundation5× · 2020–2025 · $51M · revenue +33%- TCTHE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL3× · 2020–2022 · $8.0M · revenue +47%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +29%
Funded once
- POPRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGEgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10M · revenue +34%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $5.0M
- TUTHE UC DAVIS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $5.0M · revenue +44%
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.
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
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…
By advocating for quality early care and education, empowering families with information and financial support, and building the capabilities of educators, Children's Council of San Francisco ensures that every child in San Francisco has…
See schedule othe mission of ucsf health medical foundation is threefold: 1) to establish, operate and maintain medical clinics for the provision of healthcare services in california; 2) to promote health by providing, coordinating,…
MISSION STATEMENT: MISSION: CARING FOR OUR PATIENTS FIRST AND OUR PEOPLE ALWAYS. VISION: TO BE THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE, INTEGRATED AND CONNECTED HEALTH SYSTEM FOR GETTING AND STAYING WELL. VALUES: EXCELLENCE - We deliver high-quality,…
Mission statement: mission: caring for our patients first and our people always. vision: to be the most comprehensive, integrated and connected health system for getting and staying well. values: excellence - we deliver high-quality,…
The mission of children's hospital & research center at oakland is to protect and advance the health and well-being of children through clinical care, teaching and research.
To provide isolated homebound seniors in san francisco with nutritious meals, daily human contact, and supportive services to prevent their premature institutionalization.
Food Rescue - The Organization rescues excess fresh food from Bay Area businesses, schools and non-profits and immediately delivers the food to safety net partners - such as senior housing centers, after-school programs, and homeless…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bay Area Rescue Mission and the most unlike its peers is Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute. 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 34 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
91 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. 91 of the 152 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 Oregon State University Foundation ↗
- Who funds CAL STATE EAST BAY EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT-BOARD OF TRUSTEES SANTA CLARA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OAKLAND MUSEUM OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute ↗
- Who funds BUCK INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH ON AGING ↗
- Who funds YOSEMITE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ALAMEDA COUNTY DEPUTY SHERIFFS ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY RETIREMENT AND CARE CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS RISING ABOVE ↗
- Who funds NORTH VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Las Trampas School Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION SANTA CRUZ COUNTY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII CATHOLIC COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds California Crosspoint High School ↗
- Who funds LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds BUTTE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN GENIUS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
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: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Lowell Berry Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · United Way of the Bay Area · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Crescent Porter Hale Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · Dean and Margaret Lesher 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 Wayne and Gladys Valley 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.
- Oregon State University Foundation — 0% of income from government
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.