Funding search · EIN 205205488 · Mountain View, CA
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
A grantmaking public charity (files IRS Form 990, Schedule I). Charities like this often run real grant programs with application cycles.
- 10,471
- grants reported
- $10.10B
- total given
- 2022–2024
- filing years
- $54,500
- median grant
Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.
What they fund
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Funding pattern
What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.
Where the money goes
- Donor-advised fund transfers to other sponsors and intermediaries
- K-12 education reform, charter networks, teacher pipelines, college access
- University research and endowments, heavily Stanford, UC, Cornell, USC
- Global health and international development delivery organizations
- AI safety, biosciences, and applied research institutes
- Bay Area community needs: food security, housing, youth development
Typical grant
Median grant is $54,500 and the middle half runs $20,000 to $250,000, so the overwhelming majority of the 10,471 grants are modest checks moving out of individual donor-advised funds. The eight and nine figure grants go to other DAF sponsors (National Philanthropic Trust alone took $1.59 billion), to named research institutes like Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy at $40 million, and to education organizations like Gradient Learning and College Track. Repeat giving is common because the same donors re-recommend the same grantees year over year.
Their words
Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.
- “General Nonprofit Support”
- “Education”
- “Health”
- “Sciences”
- “International Development”
Positioning adjacent work
- Find the individual donor, not the foundation. SVCF grants follow donor advisors, so cultivate the person behind the fund.
- Ask in the $25,000 to $250,000 band for a first gift; that is where most grants land.
- Frame research as Sciences or Health with a named institute or university partner, matching Parker Institute and Gladstone patterns.
- Bay Area address helps. California took 4,845 of 6,235 recipients; local ties are the strongest single signal.
Worth knowing: This is a donor-advised fund sponsor, not a conventional grantmaker with staff-set priorities, so there is no program to persuade and the portfolio reflects thousands of separate donor decisions. A single transfer to National Philanthropic Trust accounts for roughly 16 percent of all dollars, and AI safety grantees like FAR AI, MATS Research, and Rethink Priorities have grown noticeably in recent filings.
Top recipients
Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.
- National Philanthropic Trust3 grants · $1.60B
- Further Future Foundation1 grant · $1.31B
- Cz Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging Llc1 grant · $586.0M
- Cz Biohub Sf Llc1 grant · $576.0M
- Cz Biohub New York Llc1 grant · $248.0M
- Cz Biohub Chicago Llc1 grant · $246.5M
- Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund3 grants · $244.6M
- The Just Trust for Education1 grant · $131.6M
- Evidence Action3 grants · $121.4M
- American Online Giving Foundation3 grants · $111.5M
Giving over time
Grant history
The 100 largest of 10,471 grants.
- $1.59B
National Philanthropic Trust · Jenkintown, PA · 2024
General Nonprofit Support
- $1.31B
Further Future Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Sciences
- $586.0M
Cz Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Health
- $576.0M
Cz Biohub Sf Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Health
- $248.0M
Cz Biohub New York Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Health
- $246.5M
Cz Biohub Chicago Llc · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Health
- $153.8M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Cincinnati, OH · 2023
General Nonprofit Support
- $131.6M
The Just Trust for Education · Durham, NC · 2023
Public Safety
- $108.2M
Evidence Action · Washington, DC · 2022
International Development
- $67.5M
Helen Keller International · New York, NY · 2023
Health
- $51.9M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Cincinnati, OH · 2024
General Nonprofit Support
- $47.5M
T L P Education · Walnut, CA · 2022
Education
- $42.1M
American Online Giving Foundation · Newark, DE · 2024
General Nonprofit Support
- $40.0M
Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Health
- $39.0M
Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Cincinnati, OH · 2022
General Nonprofit Support
- $38.1M
American Online Giving Foundation · Newark, DE · 2023
General Nonprofit Support
- $33.3M
Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · Oakland, CA · 2023
General Nonprofit Support
- $32.2M
Effective Ventures Foundation USA · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Education
- $31.5M
City Fund · Beaverton, OR · 2024
General Nonprofit Support
- $31.3M
American Online Giving Foundation · Newark, DE · 2022
General Nonprofit Support
- $31.0M
Helen Keller International · New York, NY · 2022
Health
- $30.0M
Planned Parenthood of the Pacific Sw · San Diego, CA · 2022
Health
- $28.4M
First Look Media Works · Washington, DC · 2022
Arts & Culture
- $27.5M
Schwab Charitable Fund · Orlando, FL · 2023
General Nonprofit Support
- $26.7M
City Fund · Falls Church, VA · 2023
General Nonprofit Support
- $26.7M
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Education
- $26.1M
Brac USA · New York, NY · 2022
Community Development
- $25.8M
Jewish Community Fed of Sf Marin Peninsula & Sonoma Counties · San Francisco, CA · 2022
General Nonprofit Support
- $25.0M
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation · Colorado Springs, CO · 2024
Youth Development
- $22.0M
Gradient Learning · Covina, CA · 2024
Education
- $21.0M
American Friends of the Tel Aviv University · New York, NY · 2023
Education
- $20.2M
Sightsavers · Boston, MA · 2022
Health
- $20.1M
Onegoal · Chicago, IL · 2022
Education
- $20.0M
Reading Partners · Oakland, CA · 2022
Education
- $20.0M
The Skoll Fund · Mountain View, CA · 2024
General Nonprofit Support
- $20.0M
Minerva Institute for Research and Scholarship · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Education
- $19.7M
College Track · Oakland, CA · 2023
Education
- $19.7M
College Track · Oakland, CA · 2024
Education
- $19.4M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2022
Education
- $19.3M
Tides Foundation · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
General Nonprofit Support
- $19.1M
Primary School · East Palo Alto, CA · 2024
Education
- $18.7M
University of California Berkeley Foundation · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Education
- $17.2M
Goldman Sachs Philanthropy Fund · Albany, NY · 2024
General Nonprofit Support
- $17.1M
Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
General Nonprofit Support
- $17.0M
Minerva Institute for Research and Scholarship · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Education
- $17.0M
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · San Jose, CA · 2023
Food Security
- $16.9M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2024
Education
- $16.1M
University of Southern California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024
Education
- $16.0M
Johns Hopkins University · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Education
- $15.1M
Trust for Public Land · Los Angeles, CA · 2023
Environment
- $15.0M
Upstream USA · Boston, MA · 2023
Health
- $15.0M
Grassroots International · Boston, MA · 2022
Public Safety
- $15.0M
Nethope · Fairfax, VA · 2022
International Development
- $15.0M
Nia Tero Foundation · Seattle, WA · 2022
International Development
- $15.0M
Visionspring · New York, NY · 2022
International Development
- $15.0M
Vital Strategies · New York, NY · 2022
Health
- $14.1M
Khan Academy · Mountain View, CA · 2023
Education
- $14.0M
Biome Global Foundation · Mountain View, CA · 2023
General Nonprofit Support
- $13.8M
Clinton Health Access Initiative · Boston, MA · 2024
International Development
- $13.8M
Tides Center · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Community Development
- $13.7M
New Incentives · Covina, CA · 2022
International Development
- $13.6M
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Aptos, CA · 2022
General Nonprofit Support
- $13.1M
Conservation International Foundation · Boston, MA · 2024
Environment
- $12.7M
Effective Ventures Foundation USA · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Education
- $12.5M
Mercy for Animals · Hagerstown, MD · 2022
Animal Welfare
- $12.5M
Mercy for Animals · Hagerstown, MD · 2024
Animal Welfare
- $12.2M
Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University · Stanford, CA · 2023
Education
- $12.0M
Nexleaf Analytics · Los Angeles, CA · 2022
Health
- $12.0M
Lawndale Christian Development Corporation · Chicago, IL · 2024
Community Development
- $11.9M
Brown University of Providence · Providence, RI · 2023
Education
- $11.9M
Primary School · East Palo Alto, CA · 2023
Education
- $11.9M
College Track · Oakland, CA · 2022
Education
- $11.8M
Windward Fund · Baltimore, MD · 2023
Environment
- $11.8M
New Venture Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
General Nonprofit Support
- $11.3M
Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022
General Nonprofit Support
- $11.2M
Sightsavers · Boston, MA · 2023
Health
- $11.1M
Windward Fund · Washington, DC · 2022
Environment
- $11.0M
Greater Houston Community Foundation · Houston, TX · 2023
General Nonprofit Support
- $10.7M
Redwood Research Group · Berkeley, CA · 2022
Sciences
- $10.7M
Menlo School · Atherton, CA · 2023
Education
- $10.5M
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · Aptos, CA · 2023
General Nonprofit Support
- $10.4M
Clinton Health Access Initiative · Boston, MA · 2022
International Development
- $10.4M
The Regents of the University of California San Francisco · San Francisco, CA · 2024
Education
- $10.3M
Can Art Change the World · New York, NY · 2022
Arts & Culture
- $10.1M
Yampa Valley Community Foundation · Steamboat Springs, CO · 2022
Other
- $10.1M
Springboard Collaborative · Philadelphia, PA · 2022
Human Services
- $10.0M
Teach for All · New York, NY · 2024
Education
- $10.0M
Acumen Fund · New York, NY · 2023
Community Development
- $10.0M
Constellation Research Center · Berkeley, CA · 2024
Sciences
- $10.0M
The Sobrato Foundation · Mountain View, CA · 2024
General Nonprofit Support
- $10.0M
Yampa Valley Community Foundation · Steamboat Springs, CO · 2024
Other
- $10.0M
Kipp Texas · Houston, TX · 2023
Education
- $10.0M
We Care Solar · Berkeley, CA · 2023
Health
- $10.0M
Asian & Pacific Islander American Health Forum · Oakland, CA · 2022
Civil Participation
- $10.0M
Climateworks Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2022
Environment
- $10.0M
Fund for Global Human Rights · Washington, DC · 2022
Public Safety
- $10.0M
Just Associates · Washington, DC · 2022
Civil Participation
- $10.0M
Urban Alliance Foundation · Washington, DC · 2022
Youth Development
- $10.0M
Gates Philanthropy Partners · City of Industry, CA · 2024
General Nonprofit Support
- $9.9M
Rethink Priorities · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Sciences
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