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Silicon Valley Community Foundation (CA)
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is focused on innovative solutions that solve problems and improve the quality of life throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
As a new community foundation, SVCF has examined the diverse needs across its region, evaluated the best practices of its parent foundations and incorporated community input before launching a new set of grantmaking strategies.
Web Address
www.siliconvalleycf.org/
Social Media Links
Facebook - www.facebook.com/siliconvalleycf
Twitter - @siliconvalleycf
YouTube - www.youtube.com/TheSVCF
As a new community foundation, SVCF has examined the diverse needs across its region, evaluated the best practices of its parent foundations and incorporated community input before launching a new set of grantmaking strategies.
Web Address
www.siliconvalleycf.org/
Social Media Links
Facebook - www.facebook.com/siliconvalleycf
Twitter - @siliconvalleycf
YouTube - www.youtube.com/TheSVCF
Assets and Giving for Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Assets
2019 - 9,264,570,870
2018 - 8,046,442,203
2017 - 12,563,909,962
2016 - 7,240,507,464
2019 - 9,264,570,870
2018 - 8,046,442,203
2017 - 12,563,909,962
2016 - 7,240,507,464
Domestic Grants
2019 - 1,317,135,166
2018 - 1,829,307,838
2017 - 1,731,333,075
2019 - 1,317,135,166
2018 - 1,829,307,838
2017 - 1,731,333,075
Recent News from Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Does Charity Begin At Home? Silicon Valley's Wealthiest Donors Skip Their Own Backyard
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Silicon Valley's wealthiest donors skip their own backyard.Analysis of past five years of grantmaking found local giving under 10% each year.Worst year on record in 2023-24 with only 3.9% of...more
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Silicon Valley's wealthiest donors skip their own backyard.Analysis of past five years of grantmaking found local giving under 10% each year.Worst year on record in 2023-24 with only 3.9% of...more
Philanthropy Needs to Pick A Side on the Housing Construction Debate
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California Endowment, Hewlett Foundation
Philanthropy needs to pick a side on housing, says David Perry.He says foundations are directing hundreds of millions of dollars to advocacy groups that often work to frustrate pro-housing...more
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California Endowment, Hewlett Foundation
Philanthropy needs to pick a side on housing, says David Perry.He says foundations are directing hundreds of millions of dollars to advocacy groups that often work to frustrate pro-housing...more
Who's Funding the Wayback Machine? Saving Information Under Threat
Foundation: Moore Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Knight Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Ford Foundation, Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Open Society Foundations
The Internet Archive contains more than 916 billion web pages, 44 million books and texts.It also provides web archiving services to more than 800 organizations in 24 countries.The biggest single...more
Foundation: Moore Foundation, MacArthur Foundation, Knight Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Ford Foundation, Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation, Hewlett Foundation, Open Society Foundations
The Internet Archive contains more than 916 billion web pages, 44 million books and texts.It also provides web archiving services to more than 800 organizations in 24 countries.The biggest single...more
Best of 2024 Donors to the Arabella Advisors Network
Foundation: Foundation to Promote Open Society, Open Society Institute, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Ford Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Capital Research Center compiled a list of all megadonors to the main four Arabella nonprofits.For the New Venture Fund, the largest donors were: Bill Gates, George Soros, and eBay founder Pierre...more
Foundation: Foundation to Promote Open Society, Open Society Institute, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Ford Foundation, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
Capital Research Center compiled a list of all megadonors to the main four Arabella nonprofits.For the New Venture Fund, the largest donors were: Bill Gates, George Soros, and eBay founder Pierre...more
Billion-Dollar Donation From Netflix's Reed Hastings Leads 2024's List of Biggest Gifts
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Billion-dollar donation from Netflix's Reed Hastings leads 2024's list of biggest gifts.Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, gave 2 million shares of Netflix stock valued at $1.1 billion in...more
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Billion-dollar donation from Netflix's Reed Hastings leads 2024's list of biggest gifts.Hastings and his wife, Patty Quillin, gave 2 million shares of Netflix stock valued at $1.1 billion in...more
These Trump Appointees Are Ultra Rich. What Do We Know About Their Philanthropy?
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California Endowment, Chicago Community Trust, Walton Family Foundation, Lilly Endowment
House Republicans' push for HR 9495, which would allow wide latitude for political appointees to revoke nonprofits' tax status, suggests even Cabinet members supportive of the sector may not have the...more
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California Endowment, Chicago Community Trust, Walton Family Foundation, Lilly Endowment
House Republicans' push for HR 9495, which would allow wide latitude for political appointees to revoke nonprofits' tax status, suggests even Cabinet members supportive of the sector may not have the...more
Policy Convention in Mountain View Tackles Regional Inequities
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
"We've got resources, we've got money, we've got academia, we got the peak innovative spirit. If we can't figure this out here, who else is going to figure it out?" That was the opening remarks...more
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
"We've got resources, we've got money, we've got academia, we got the peak innovative spirit. If we can't figure this out here, who else is going to figure it out?" That was the opening remarks...more
Leading Impact Investors and Philanthropists Convene for
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California Endowment
In 2024, Los Angeles will host the Mission Investors Exchange 2024 National Conference, an annual conference that brings together more than 750 philanthropy and impact investing leaders from across...more
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, California Endowment
In 2024, Los Angeles will host the Mission Investors Exchange 2024 National Conference, an annual conference that brings together more than 750 philanthropy and impact investing leaders from across...more
How Tax-Exempt Nonprofits Skirt U.S. Law to Turn out the Democrat Base in Elections
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have donated more than $332 million to help run the 2020 elections, but they're not the only big donors to so-called "progressive" nonprofits, Politico...more
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, have donated more than $332 million to help run the 2020 elections, but they're not the only big donors to so-called "progressive" nonprofits, Politico...more
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