California · Nonprofit
BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY
BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY (California) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,359,706 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,141,342). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $2.8M
- Funders on record
- 63
- Grants received
- $10M
- Net assets
- $2.0M
What Breakthrough Silicon Valley does
Mission
Breakthrough Silicon Valley prepares highly-motivated students to become first-generation college graduates and inspires emerging leaders to be the next generation of educators and advocates for equity.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
7-9th grade summer program - in summer 2024, btsv delivered a rigorous academic program for rising 7th-9th grade students. The program served 242 students, a 20% increase over 2023, and provided intensive math, literacy, and college readiness support. After the program, 81% of students reported increased confidence in pursuing college, 70% showed math skill growth, and 84% expressed a desire to attend college after high school. The program helps prepare middle school students for long-term academic success and high school readiness.
$1,025,143 spentof which $21,735 as grants48% of program spendingHigh school and alumni program - during fy25, btsv provided year-round after-school programming, one-on-one advising, college readiness workshops, and family engagement events to 477 students in grades 712. In spring 2025, 78 students graduated from btsv's high school program. Of these graduates, 89% were eligible for a 4-year university, 72% enrolled into a 4-year university, and 26% enrolled into community college. Btsv maintained a 97% retention rate across grade levels, exceeding its vision 2025 strategic plan target.
$769,785 spent36% of program spendingMiddle school school year program - across the 2024-25 school year, btsv supported middle school students through after-school programming, one-on-one advising, college readiness workshops, and family engagement events. The program builds skills, confidence, and academic preparedness for first-generation students, helping them stay on track for high school and long-term college success. In fy25, btsv achieved a 97% retention rate across grade levels, reflecting the strength of its student relationships, responsive program design, and commitment to elevating student and family voice through its student advisory board and parent community council initiatives.
$347,620 spent16% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $2,142,548.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2022 to 2023, from $2.5M to $3.2M (+25%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 3% · 2018 3% · 2019 3% · 2020 2% · 2021 3% · 2022 10% · 2023 6% · 2024 23% · 2025 18%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (48% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
John Hiester
Executive director
Board chair
Griselda Panozo
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 19 funders to 38 funders, grant income rose $594k → $1.8M.
17 of 63 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 37% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 63 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 11% of grant income, and it takes 8 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 8 funders to its left
39% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 14% · 2019 15% · 2020 9% · 2021 8% · 2022 17% · 2023 11% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
59% of BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
73% of BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.8M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY's funding base is broadening — from 19 funders to 38 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,615 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In California
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
77%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. Screen this nonprofit · How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY?
- BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY (California) receives grants from 63 organizations whose IRS filings report $10,359,706 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($1,141,342). 47 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY have?
- IRS filings report 63 organizations giving $10,359,706 in grants to BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY, 47 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $1,141,342 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BREAKTHROUGH SILICON VALLEY find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in California. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
Play a game about who funds Breakthrough Silicon Valley →
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 63 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing