Sobrato Philanthropies

• If your work sits in economic mobility, educational equity or housing security, particularly for low-wage or housing-insecure families, childcare and early education, bilingual education or affordable housing, the foundation's stated priorities are a close fit.
• Its typical grants run from $375 to $250,000, with about 8 in 10 falling in that band, and half of its grants are $63,000 or less, so a modest request near the middle of that range suits its usual pattern.
• Applications are rolling: send a general inquiry form to share funding ideas or introduce work advancing economic mobility in Silicon Valley, and the team will follow up if there is alignment, while existing grantees should contact their programme officer instead.
• Most of its grant dollars, 86%, went to organisations it had funded in earlier years, as the filing shows, so a new applicant should expect a relationship to be built over time rather than a quick award, and should check the priority places the filing lists, which include Redwood City, East Palo Alto, Gilroy and East San Jose.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Silicon Valley Community Foundation · General support to the resonance philanthropies daf #4176
  $5,000,0002024 tax year
• ImpactAssets · To support impact investments
  $3,000,0002024 tax year
• Silicon Valley Community Foundation · General support to the lisa and matthew sonsini family fund #4031
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• Silicon Valley Community Foundation · $1,000,000.00 for general support to the john m. sobrato and timi sobrato fund (daf #5360) and $1,000,000.00 for general support to the john m. sobrato fund (daf #3764)
  $2,000,0002024 tax year
• ImpactAssets · To support the resonance impact fund
  $1,500,0002024 tax year
• Silicon Valley Community Foundation · $750,000 for general support to the john m. sobrato and timi sobrato fund (svcf daf #5360); $750,000 for general support to the john m. sobrato fund (svcf daf #3764)
  $1,500,0002024 tax year
• County of San Mateo · To advance the production of 47 housing units focused on low-income farmworkers in half moon bay and support an innovative home-ownership model backed by public-private partnership.
  $1,000,0002024 tax year
• Silicon Valley Community Foundation · General support to the john matthew and andie sobrato fund, #4846 (from i53-8 to svcf daf #4846)
  $1,000,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.