· Public charity
William H Cilker Family Foundation
William H.
Read this first · the figures below need context
98% of William H Cilker Family Foundation’s FY2021 grant dollars went to Silicon Valley Community Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2021 names 14 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2019, the last year William H Cilker Family Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $187k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 15 grants below total $186,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $404,700 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $217,800 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2019
- Under $10k10 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $121k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CANCER CAREPOINT INC | $42,500 |
| FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| WEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION | $13,550 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF LOS GATOS | $12,700 |
| ALMADEN VALLEY WOMAN'S CLUB | $12,500 |
| STANDUP FOR KIDS | $9,400 |
| SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE | $7,750 |
| SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF SANTA CLARA & SAN MATEO COUNTIES | $7,000 |
| ROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC | $6,500 |
| ROTACARE BAY AREA INC | $6,500 |
| FAMILY GIVING TREE | $6,000 |
| NAPILI KAI FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE | $5,500 |
| PARKINSON'S INSTITUTE | $5,500 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $5,500 |
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 (FY18–21, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
14 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2019, 3 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call). Read against FY2019, 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 FY2021, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- CCCANCER CAREPOINT INC4× · 2017–2021 · $157k · revenue +2%
- FPFACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC4× · 2017–2021 · $141k · revenue +38%
- WVWEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION3× · 2017–2019 · $47k · revenue +93%
Funded once
- WPWESTHOPE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +48%
The Houston Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $8k · revenue +107%
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.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
Second harvest food bank's mission is to end hunger and malnutrition by educating and involving the community.
To end hunger in san francisco and marin counties by soliciting food donations nationally, distributing this food to qualifying public service agencies and neighborhood pantries, advocating for improved government food programs, and…
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…
On a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. through direct service and community partnerships, feeding san diego provides more than 26 million meals each year to children, families,…
To end hunger and transform the health of our community by providing nourishment to those in need by acquiring and distributing safe nutritious food via local agencies and by providing education to solve hunger and nutritional problems in…
Ccfb is dedicated to ending hunger, working with over 200 partner agencies to provide food to those experiencing hunger. our mission: transforming lives together, in the passionate pursuit to end hunger in central ca - one meal, one…
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…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Dedicated to assisting those in need by alleviating their immediate pain and problems and moving them toward self-sufficiency and financial independence.
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Family Giving Tree and the most unlike its peers is Facial Pain Research Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 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) — 0% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 30 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 Silicon Valley Community Foundation ↗
- Who funds CANCER CAREPOINT INC ↗
- Who funds FACIAL PAIN RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST VALLEY MISSION COMMUNITY COLLEGE DISTRICT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST OF SILICON VALLEY ↗
- Who funds ROTAPLAST INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds ROTACARE BAY AREA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAMILY GIVING TREE ↗
- Who funds NEXT DOOR SOLUTIONS TO DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds Guadalupe River Park Conservancy ↗
- Who funds HISTORY SAN JOSE ↗
- Who funds ALMADEN VALLEY WOMANS CLUB ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds StandUp for Kids ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds The Houston Food Bank ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART COMMUNITY SERVICE ↗
- Who funds MAUI FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD CREDIT UNION COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FORWARD EDGE INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds NAPILI KAI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DIXON FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VIA REHABILITATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kieve Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
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 William H Cilker 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.