Chavez Family Foundation
San Francisco, CA · EIN 81-3550500. Reported 124 grants totalling $6,144,156 to 65 recipients across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation told the IRS it does not accept unsolicited requests: it contributes only to organizations it selects itself.
Does this foundation accept applications?
No -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation to check a box if it "only makes contributions to preselected charitable organizations and does not accept unsolicited requests for funds". Chavez Family Foundation checked it on its most recent filing, as 78% of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered did. An unsolicited request is unlikely to go anywhere.
Organizations it funds that make grants of their own
6 of the organizations Chavez Family Foundation funded make grants themselves, and it reported 10 grants totalling $411,250 to them. That is 9% of the $4,647,830 of its giving we could match to a registered organization. Each is classified by the IRS as a philanthropy or grantmaking organization, reported grants to at least 25 organizations of its own, and has at least 10 funders behind it.
All of them file Form 990, which never asks whether an organization funds only groups it picks, so there is no answer on record either way.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application to any of them reaches this foundation's money. A private foundation's grant to a community foundation or a federated campaign is often a donor-advised fund or a gift designated for a purpose the foundation chose, and has nothing to do with any open programme the receiving organization runs. Its return's purpose text sometimes names a family fund or a designated purpose, which is the plainest case of money no applicant can reach; where it names none, neither return says which. The list is who this foundation paid that also makes grants. Whether any of them would fund you is a question for its own page.
| Grantmaker | Kind | State | Received | Grants | Years | Last | Only funds organizations it picks? |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Initiatives | grantmaking organization | California | $225,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| Asian Pacific Fund | grantmaking organization | California | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 | Its form does not ask |
| Inland Empire Community Foundation | community foundation | California | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | Its form does not ask |
| Silicon Valley Community Foundation | community foundation | California | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| Los Altos Mountain View | community foundation | California | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 | Its form does not ask |
| Grantmakers Concerned With | grantmaking organization | California | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 | Its form does not ask |
A floor, not a full list. A grantmaker appears here only where this foundation's return named it clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows, and only where that grantmaker has a page on this site. There may be more. Dollars here are summed by EIN across every spelling on its returns, so a figure can differ from the matching row in the full list below, which groups names as written. And the IRS classification cannot tell a grantmaker from a funders' association or a donor-advised fund sponsor, so a payment to one of these may be dues or an account rather than support for a grants programme.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $50,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $25,000 and $70,000; the smallest was $1,250 and the largest $275,000.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Every Woman Treaty | Seattle, WA | $350,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Neighbors for a Better San Francisco | San Rafael, CA | $301,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Digital Nest Inc | Watsonville, CA | $300,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| La Cocina Inc | San Francisco, CA | $300,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Unite & Renew Educational Foundation | Washington DC, DC | $275,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Immigration Council | Washington DC, DC | $262,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Harvard University | Cambridge, MA | $256,326 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Community Initiatives | San Francisco, CA | $225,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Latino Community Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $225,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Vh-1 Save the Music Foundation Inc | New York, NY | $220,000 | 4 | 3 | 2023 |
| Unite and Renew Educational Foundation Inc | Washington, DC | $217,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Upwardly Global | New York, NY | $160,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| ACLU of Northern California | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula | Menlo Park, CA | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Creser Capital Fund | Sausalito, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kqed | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Latino Business Action Network (lban) | Palo Alto, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Mobile Pathways | Berkeley, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| University of California San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $150,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Nextgen Education Fund | San Francisco, CA | $140,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Colorwave | Berkeley, CA | $125,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Codepathorg | San Francisco, CA | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Resource Impact | Washington DC, DC | $100,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley | San Jose, CA | $90,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Immigrants Rising | San Francisco, CA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Latinos for Education | Belmont, MA | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Partnership for a New American Economy Research Fund | New York, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| San Francisco Parents Coalition | San Francisco, CA | $65,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| The Aspen Institute | Washington DC, DC | $65,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Asian Pacific Fund | San Francisco, CA | $60,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Legal Link | Oakland, CA | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| California Consortium for Urban Indian Health Inc | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Campaign for College Opportunity | Los Angeles, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Centro Legal De La Raza Inc | Oakland, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Commonweal | Bolinas, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Edtechquity | El Verta, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Inland Empire Community | Riverside, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| School of Arts & Culture (soac) | San Jose, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Silicon Valley Community Foundation | Mountain View, CA | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Somosvc | San Jose, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Sounds of Saving | Brooklyn, NY | $50,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Jazz Organization | San Francisco, CA | $48,580 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Good Samaritan Family Resource Center of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $40,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Latinxvc | San Jose, CA | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| 10000 Degrees | San Francisco, CA | $37,500 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Sahq Backers | Albuquerque, NM | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Make Music Count Organization Inc | Atlanta, GA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cityside Journalism Initiative | Oakland, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation | Los Altos, CA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Austin Film Society | Austin, TX | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| The Giving Trees International | Portland, OR | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Ballet Association | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| San Francisco Community Music Center | San Francisco, CA | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alpha Public Schools | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Asian Art Museum Foundation of San Francisco | San Francisco, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Soul Shoppe Programs | Oakland, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Storycorps | Brooklyn, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sunday Friends Foundation | San Jose, CA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Argonne Council of Empowerment | San Francisco, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Matriculate | New York, NY | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Save the Bay | Oakland, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Special Service for Groups Inc | Los Angeles, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Basic Fund | Oakland, CA | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees | Petaluma, CA | $1,250 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
31 of 65 (48%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 63%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one, and this foundation told the IRS it does not.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Harvard University
SUPPORT FOR THE RAYMOND & ROSARIO CHAVEZ INNOVATION FUND IN ENGINEERING AND APPLIED SCIENCES - American Immigration Council
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR COACHING - Latino Community Foundation
SUPPORT FOR THE LATINO NONPROFIT ACCELERATOR - Vh-1 Save the Music Foundation Inc
SUPPORT FOR MUSIC TECH GRANTS - California Consortium for Urban Indian Health Inc
IN SUPPORT OF THE CALIFORNIA NATIVE TRUTH & HEALING DOCUMENTARY - School of Arts & Culture (soac)
THE CAPITAL CAMPAIGN IN HONOR OF RAMN AND ROSARIO CHVEZ
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 97 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 31 | $1,645,576 | $50,000 |
| 2022 | 38 | $1,835,500 | $50,000 |
| 2023 | 32 | $1,869,500 | $50,000 |
| 2024 | 23 | $793,580 | $25,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
64% of its giving went to organizations in California.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more. Unlike this foundation, none of them is on record as funding only organizations it picks, and each page says what its filings show.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Chavez Family Foundation's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 194664, San Francisco, CA, 94119. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS.
EIN 81-3550500 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
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