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.

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
Domestic Grants

2019 - 1,317,135,166
2018 - 1,829,307,838
2017 - 1,731,333,075


    

Recent News from Silicon Valley Community Foundation


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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Tis the Season For Giving: A Guide For How to Give, Even A Little
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Lilly Endowment

Christmas is over, but giving season for nonprofits is just starting to peak.Nonprofits get about 30% of their annual donations in December, including 10% in the final three days of the year.Many...more

Tis the Season For Giving: A Guide For How to Give, Even A Little
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Dell Foundation

The end of the calendar year is when nonprofits make appeals far and wide to attract donors.Nonprofits get about 30% of their annual donations in December, including 10% in the final three days of...more

'Tis the Season For Giving: A Guide For How to Give, Even A Little
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Dell Foundation, Lilly Endowment

Christmas is over, but giving season for nonprofits is just starting to peak.Nonprofits get about 30% of their annual donations in December, including 10% in the final three days of the year.Many...more



Social Enterprise Network Sites


Weston Mill-based social enterprise Surplus Rescue CIC (Community Interest Company) recycles and finds homes for unwanted furniture. To date, it has received “extensive amounts” of quality second-hand furniture including desks, pedestals, cupboards and office chairs from a former local authority office equipment – and wants to find them a good home.




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