California · Nonprofit
SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS
SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,718,607 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,333,384). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 20
- Grants received
- $4.7M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Silicon Valley Council of Nonprofits does
Mission
To advance the role, voice, and capacity of the nonprofit community so it can be a force for positive social change and support the creation of equitable, vibrant, and thriving communities.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Programs
Policy advocacy: svcn monitors trends and policy issues that affect santa clara county nonprofits and the communities they serve. Svcn supports and convenes nonprofits in advocating for solutions they prioritize to further equitable and thriving communities and works to achieve racial justice. Svcn advocates for and lifts the voices of the nonprofit sector in public funding and cbo contracting and advocates for nonprofit seats at the table.
$383,481 spent45% of program spendingMember and nonprofit support: svcn supports the nonprofit community through technical assistance; referrals; volunteer coordination; convening and networking; and resource lists. Svcn supports member organizations with funding information; fair pay information; job and community calendar postings; discounts to learning programs; and an annual membership meeting.
$275,389 spent$4,525 earned by the program32% of program spendingLearning and capacity building: svcn creates and curates learning opportunities; resources; samples; and tools for nonprofits; svcn provides cohort learning for and convenes nonprofit leaders. Svcn supports nonprofit organizations in their racial justice, diversity, and inclusion work.
$199,603 spent$17,108 earned by the program23% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $858,473.
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 2020 to 2021, from $973k to $1.3M (+38%).
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: 2018 17% · 2019 16% · 2020 10% · 2021 17% · 2022 10% · 2023 6% · 2024 4% · 2025 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS’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. 1 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
Kyra Kazantzis
CEO
Board chair
Poncho Guevara
Board chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose $248k → $973k.
8 of 20 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 43% 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 SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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
SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 63%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
51% 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 SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 36% · 2018 32% · 2019 42% · 2020 32% · 2021 52% · 2022 43% · 2023 31% — 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
58% of SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
87% of SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $2.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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
SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 9,398 education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 9,398 education nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2025
Organizations like SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS
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
69% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
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 SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS: 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.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS?
- SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS (California) receives grants from 20 organizations whose IRS filings report $4,718,607 to it, the largest being Silicon Valley Community Foundation ($1,333,384). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS have?
- IRS filings report 20 organizations giving $4,718,607 in grants to SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS?
- Silicon Valley Community Foundation is the largest funder on record, with $1,333,384 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SILICON VALLEY COUNCIL OF NONPROFITS 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.
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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 20 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 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing