California · Nonprofit
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,866,788 to it, the largest being BROWN SCIENCE FOUNDATION ($1,750,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $570M
- Funders on record
- 6
- Grants received
- $1.9M
- Net assets
- $8.2B
What The David and Lucile Packard Foundation does
Programs
The foundation maintains the taaffe property in los altos hills. The town of los altos hills has granted a pathway easement across the property and a conservation easement to protect the orchard and riparian areas. The existing residence on the property was remodeled for use by the foundation specifically as a meetings and conference facility. It is appropriately staffed and configured to accomodate meetings and therefore, serves as a conference center for use by staff, grantees, and local community groups.
$1,535,228 spentThe packard fellowships in science and engineering encourage the nation's most promising early-career university professors to pursue their science and engineering research with few funding restrictions. Each year, up to 20 fellows are selected. In 2024, approximately 122 fellows were active and 20 fellows received awards. The foundation hopes that these exceptional scientists and engineers will remain within academia to conduct basic research and to teach the next generation of science leaders. Each year, the foundation convenes a national meeting for these exceptional scientists to present the results of their research.
$654,902 spent
The 2 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990-PF.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 2021 to 2022, from $10.0B to $8.3B (−17%).
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.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2018 and FY2019, and between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell $1.8M → $21k.
2 of 6 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 2% 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 The David and Lucile Packard Foundation’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
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 94% of grant income and the top three 99%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 96% · 2020 100% · 2021 58% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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.
Where its funders are
100% of The David and Lucile Packard Foundation's grant income comes from California funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $28k 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
The David and Lucile Packard Foundation is better cushioned than half of the 153 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 153 philanthropy nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Organizations like The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
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.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for The David and Lucile Packard Foundation: 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 The David and Lucile Packard Foundation?
- The David and Lucile Packard Foundation (California) receives grants from 6 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,866,788 to it, the largest being BROWN SCIENCE FOUNDATION ($1,750,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The David and Lucile Packard Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 6 organizations giving $1,866,788 in grants to The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Who is the largest funder of The David and Lucile Packard Foundation?
- BROWN SCIENCE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with $1,750,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The David and Lucile Packard Foundation 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2018–2024), and the filings of 6 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