Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation
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About Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation
Our mission at LAMVCF connects people, resources, and ideas to transform local potential into lasting impact in Los Altos, Los Altos Hills and Mountain View.
Focus Areas
Affordable housingEducation and scholarshipsArtsClimate change / environmental stewardshipCommunity resilienceEconomic securitySocial justiceYouth opportunity
Who They Fund
residents of Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, and Mountain Viewlow-income householdsstudents and scholarship recipientsundocumented immigrants / people needing documentation support
About Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation
A $1 million Mountain View Affordable Housing Investment Fund sits at the center of Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation’s recent profile, showing how the foundation uses designated local funds alongside grants to support housing goals in its service area. The foundation’s work is place-based across Los Altos, Los Altos Hills, and Mountain View, with funding tied to community needs rather than a single sector. Recent grants also show sustained support for local service organizations, including The Philanthropy Workshop, Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund - Sv2, and Palo Alto Community Fund, alongside direct local recipients such as the Los Altos Police Department and Community Services Agency. Scholarship programs are a major part of the foundation’s public-facing work, especially through the MVLA Community Roundtable and MVLA Scholars, where the foundation hosts shared applications for students in the Mountain View–Los Altos High School District. Arts and culture, community resilience, youth opportunity, and basic needs appear across its programs and grant history. The result is a community foundation that combines donor facilitation, designated funds, and open local programs to move resources into a tightly defined geographic area.
What Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation Funds
Affordable housing is a visible part of the foundation’s portfolio. Through the Mountain View Affordable Housing Investment Fund, LAMVCF manages a $1 million designated fund established with City of Mountain View funds to support new and existing affordable housing developments in Mountain View. Education and scholarships are another core line of work: the MVLA Scholars program offers need-based, renewable multi-year college scholarships and one-on-one mentoring for graduating seniors in the Mountain View–Los Altos High School District. The foundation also hosts the MVLA Community Roundtable Scholarship, a shared application for local students that awards scholarships in the $2,000–$6,000 range. Community grants extend beyond scholarships into local development, health and human services, youth services, and arts and culture, giving the foundation a flexible grantmaking tool for neighborhood-level needs.
How Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation Gives
Typical grants cluster in a relatively tight band: p25 is $10,000, median grant size is $12,500, and p75 is $23,212. The recent grant list shows a mix of recurring support and one-off awards. Some recipients appear across multiple years, including National Film Preserve Ltd, Community Services Agency, Cityteam Ministries, Foothill-deanza Community College Foundation, and Riecken Foundation. That pattern fits a community foundation model with a mixed DAF classification, combining donor-facilitated giving with directly managed programs. Several active programs accept unsolicited requests, including the shared scholarship applications and community grants, while the designated housing fund does not.
Financial Snapshot
Annual Giving
$77.5M
Total Assets
$64.1M
Total Revenue
$91.8M
Total Expenses
$82.2M
Typical Grant Size
Most grants fall between $10K and $23K, with a median of $13K.
25th Percentile
$10K
Median
$13K
75th Percentile
$23K
Geographic Reach
Local22 states funded
Funding intensity
LowHigh
Headquarters
Leadership
CRYSTA KRAMES
Accepts unsolicited proposals
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