About Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Silicon Valley Community Foundation’s recent giving shows a mix of very large health, education, and public-safety commitments alongside smaller community-based grants. One of the clearest signals is the $1.309 billion grant to Further Future Foundation in Berkeley for sciences, which sits alongside other nine- and eight-figure awards to CZ Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging LLC, CZ Biohub SF LLC, CZ Biohub New York LLC, and CZ Biohub Chicago LLC. That pattern points to a funder comfortable operating at both institutional scale and local community scale.
The foundation also uses its grantmaking to support general nonprofit infrastructure, with major awards to Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Schwab Charitable Fund, and City Fund. Its portfolio includes health, education, international development, arts and culture, and community development, with named grants to Helen Keller International Inc, Evidence Action Inc, First Look Media Works Inc, and BRAC USA Inc.
Alongside those large institutional grants, Silicon Valley Community Foundation runs scholarships and rapid-response funds for local communities in the Bay Area, including former foster youth, first-generation students, single parents returning to college, and nonprofits facing urgent needs in San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
What Silicon Valley Community Foundation Funds
In health and biomedical research, the foundation funded CZ Institute for Advanced Biological Imaging LLC with $586,007,469 and CZ Biohub SF LLC with $576,046,150, both in San Francisco. It also supported Helen Keller International Inc twice in the recent list, including a $67,455,086 grant in New York.
Education appears in both research and access-oriented forms. Silicon Valley Community Foundation gave $47,500,000 to T L P Education in Walnut for education, $20,100,000 to OneGoal in Chicago, and $20,020,250 to Reading Partners in Oakland. The board of trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University in Stanford also appears with a $19,430,407 education grant.
Its portfolio also reaches into public safety, community development, and international development. The Just Trust for Education in Durham received $131,625,000 for public safety, BRAC USA Inc in New York received $26,083,300 for community development, and Evidence Action Inc in Washington, DC received $108,221,844 for international development.
