· Private foundation
William and Alice Hinckley Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $48k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $65k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST UNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST SOCIETY SF | $53,600 |
| BELOVED BUILDERS INC | $30,300 |
| OPEN DOOR LEGAL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,813 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,813 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,312 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,312 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $62k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +777% since the first grant, against +61% for those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 10 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, 9% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $152k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- FUFirst Unitarian Universalist Church7× · 2017–2023 · $442k
- IGIndividual grant recipient7× · 2017–2023 · $247k
- SKStarr King School6× · 2017–2023 · $70k
Funded once
- UUUnitarian Universalist Ministers Asone grant, 2022 · $10k
- EDEviction Defense Collaborative Incgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +472%
- 5M547 Mendocino Aveone grant, 2019 · $8k
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.
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,…
An intentionally small community where young people are valued as individuals. A compassionate team of educators approach academic & social-emotional development with the aim of cultivating justice-seeking humans empowered to transform…
Serve as a partner, educator, and guide for philanthropy in reimagining practices that advance a thriving and just world.
Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.
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…
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…
To educate and inspire girls to become innovators and leaders in stem.
The Bay Area Creative Foundation celebrates, cultivates, and inspires creativity in youth and young adults. We believe in fostering a society that embodies creative spirit, art, and innovation.
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.
Lab rental spaces
PPS-SF's mission is to promote the fundamental value of public education and pursue the success of every public school by sharing knowledge, bridging communities, and informing policy.
Marin open studios is a non-profit visual arts organization dedicated to engaging and supporting marin county artists and their audiences through events, programs and services. marin open studios champions a diverse and inclusive community…
How this is measured
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 26 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 UP ON TOP ↗
- Who funds BELOVED BUILDERS INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR LEGAL ↗
- Who funds Eviction Defense Collaborative Inc ↗
- Who funds The Practice Space Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE ARTS CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PLAYERS PHILANTHROPY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SAN FRANCISCO INTERFAITH COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GIRLSTART ↗
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: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization William and Alice Hinckley Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William and Alice Hinckley Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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