California · Nonprofit
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,610,578 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $1.3M
- Funders on record
- 16
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $763k
What The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation does
Mission
To tackle issues that will help Silicon Valley remain the international capital of innovation, with a healthy business climate and great quality of life for its workers.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Program
The Foundation conducts several events and initiatives under two primary programs, as outlined below:RacesThe Foundation organizes community run/walk events to support local charitable organizations and community programs. Activities under this program include:- Applied Materials Silicon Valley Turkey Trot Established in 2005, this Thanksgiving Day run supports local charitable organizations, including the Healthier Kids Foundation, Housing Trust Silicon Valley, Second Harvest Silicon Valley, Second Harvest Food Bank of Santa Cruz County, and The Health Trust. The event has raised over $10 million to support community members in need and is recognized as the largest Thanksgiving Day race in the United States.- Lam Research Hearts and Soles Run Established in 2014 in collaboration with the Santa Clara County Office of Education, this event promotes childrens health and wellness in Silicon Valley. Lam Research serves as the Title Sponsor. Since inception, the event has raised over $800,000 to support the Foundations health initiatives.- Santa Run Silicon Valley Established in 2011, this 5K run/walk supports Christmas in the Park and Downtown Ice in San Jose. The event has raised…
$1,142,888 spentof which $540,000 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $1,142,888.
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 2023 to 2024, from $1.5M to $1.8M (+20%).
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: 2021 6% · 2023 1% · 2024 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 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.
Board chair
Kim Fennell
Board chair
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
The chief executive listed changed between the FY2019 and FY2020 filings.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 4 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell $116k → $79k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 44% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $696k from 4 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation raised.
From the IRS filings of The Silicon Valley Leadership Group 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 Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 66%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
57% 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 The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 35% · 2019 86% · 2020 65% · 2021 61% · 2022 69% · 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
20% of The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 31% 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
The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation draws 82% of its grant income from funders outside California, across 5 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $713k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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 Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 2,186 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,186 environment nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Organizations like The Silicon Valley Leadership Group 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.
Where the money goes
92% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
59%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- The Silicon Valley Leadership Group · exempt
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation?
- The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation (California) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,610,578 to it, the largest being The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc ($500,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $1,610,578 in grants to The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of The Silicon Valley Leadership Group Foundation?
- The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $500,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like The Silicon Valley Leadership Group 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 16 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