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


Gilroy Foundation sets up fund to benefit shooting victims
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

The Gilroy Garlic Festival Victims Relief Fund was created in partnership with the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the SVCF has donated...more

Assembly votes to make civil damages awards system more fair, end discrimination of minority ...
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Katie Hanzlik, press secretary for Hertzberg (D-Van Nuys), referenced a number of cases documented by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation...more

Puppy love: Meet Finn, the San Jose Sharks' newest addition
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Like many other mergers of Bay Area organizations with similar missions — the United Way, Silicon Valley Community Foundation and Silicon...more

The Venceremos Brigade: Fifty Years of Cuban Solidarity
Foundation: Proteus Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Tides Foundation

... and the SEIU, as well as other 501(c)(3) nonprofits like the Proteus Fund, the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, and the Tides...more

Follow the Talent: Impactalpha's 'Agents of Impact' Special Report For July 12
Foundation: REDF, Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Glenmede is hiring a director of sustainable and impact investing in Philadelphia.Social Finance is seeking a managing director of social investment in Boston.The Bertha Centre for Social Innovation...more

Stephen Piscotty and a beloved parent's legacy
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

They created the ALS Cure Project, under the auspices of the Silicon Valley Community Foundation, to raise money for scientific research aimed...more

$3 Million in the Hole: Steyer and Soros-backed ThinkProgress Shutting Down and Selling
Foundation: Gates Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation

... The Silicon Valley Community Foundation and The Sandler Foundation, who are all listed in the “$1,000,000 or More” section of CAP's donor...more

The Philadelphia Orchestra Association Receives $55 Million Grant
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

The Philadelphia Orchestra Association Receives $55 Million Grant ... music, and further the place of the arts in an open and democratic...more

Money Moves: A towering $83M has been awarded recently to area organizations
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation, William Penn Foundation

The total grant of $55 million is the single largest gift in Philadelphia ... of us in the Philadelphia Orchestra family,” said Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. ... The William Penn...more

New CEO Plans for Silicon Valley Community Foundation's 2.0 Version
Foundation: Silicon Valley Community Foundation

Nicole Taylor, president and CEO of Silicon Valley Community Foundation, is gearing to bring the foundation past its history of workplace tumult and put the "community" back in the community...more



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