Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Mission
Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a community catalyst for positive change. We partner with donors, businesses, government and community to solve our region’s toughest challenges and to cultivate vital and sustainable communities.
Ruling year
2006
President & CEO
Ms. Nicole Taylor
Main address
2440 West El Camino Real Ste 300
Mountain View, CA 94040 USA
EIN
20-5205488
NTEE code
Community Foundations (T31)
Fund Raising and/or Fund Distribution (S12)
IRS filing requirement
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Communication
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Donor Advised Funds
Silicon Valley Community Foundation offers several types of funds that enable donors to support charitable organizations and initiatives aligned with their values and philanthropic interests. Donor advised funds enable donors to recommend grant recipients, subject to community foundation due diligence and approval. Hundreds of individuals and families partner with Silicon Valley Community Foundation, utilizing the community foundation’s services and expertise to make their giving easy and effective. By creating a donor advised fund, individuals can organize all charitable activities through one expertly managed and cost-effective charitable vehicle.
Community Grantmaking
As a community foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation awards grants to nonprofits serving San Mateo and Santa Clara counties that work in its strategic areas of focus: early childhood development, housing, and financial security.
SVCF also issues grants through its Community Action Grants Program, which invests in organizations led by and serving people of color in the areas of arts and culture, environment, health, media and journalism, immigration, neighborhoods, faith, and civic participation. Created in response to recommendations from its community partners, the Community Action Grants program uses a racial justice and equity lens to identify and support organizations that foster greater creativity and help build community and power to promote a just, equitable and inclusive Silicon Valley.
Corporate Advised Funds
Silicon Valley Community Foundation offers an array of services to facilitate and manage corporate philanthropy. From start-ups to global corporations to family-owned businesses, corporate partners have found that turning to the charitable expertise, administrative help and flexibility offered by the community foundation is much more efficient than setting up a private corporate foundation. With the community foundation providing strategic support and managing grant processing, corporate fund advisors can focus on helping their employees volunteer and on improving their communities.
Where we work
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Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Evaluation documents
Download evaluation reportsEstimated number of funding dollars secured for the sector
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric is specific to the amount of funding SVCF and its institutional partners and donors dedicated granted in it's two-county region Santa Clara, CA and San Mateo, CA.
Our Sustainable Development Goals
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Goals & Strategy
Reports and documents
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Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
1. Reducing systemic disparities
2. Cultivating a strong and engaged community
3. Promoting a culture and practice of effective philanthropy
4. Being a trusted and enduring institution for the community
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
To achieve equity in our community, SVCF is focused on three strategy areas: power, partnerships, and policies.
1. Power: We build community power by supporting leaders of color and their organizations through capacity-building and supporting the movements they are leading.
2. Partnerships: We bring together nonprofits and community-based organizations, local and state government officials, funders, companies, individuals and families to tackle long-term challenges like affordable housing, or immediate crises like access to food and shelter during disasters.
3. Policies: We support policies and solutions that end systemic inequities and oppression, with a focus on core issues that build equity including financial security, affordable housing, and early childhood development.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
See organizational profile description of leadership/staff and programs.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
SVCF is planning a comprehensive evaluation framework, to be implemented in 2022, that will focus both on process and community outcome metrics. The development of SVCF’s evaluation framework will be led by our newly hired director of learning and evaluation and informed by community partners and residents with lived experience to identify metrics that reflect their needs.
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Board of directorsas of 11/18/2021
Wade Loo
Former Partner, KPMG
Term: 2021 - 2022
Wade Loo
Retired Partner, KPMG LLP
Alan Zafran
IEQ Capital
Daniel Perez
Reconext
Greta Hansen
County of Santa Clara
Issac Vaughn
Zenefits
Judy Miner
Foothill-De Anza Community College District
Julie Kwon
McDermott Will & Emery
Kate Mitchell
Scale Venture Partners
Larry Kramer
The William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Luz Urrutia
Accion Opportunity Fund
Marie Huber
eBay, Inc.
Mauricio Simbeck
Milagros de Mexico
Rebecca Guerra
Consultant
Shannon Nash
Reputation
Nicole Taylor
Silicon Valley Community Foundation
Board leadership practices
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Board orientation and education
Does the board conduct a formal orientation for new board members and require all board members to sign a written agreement regarding their roles, responsibilities, and expectations? No -
CEO oversight
Has the board conducted a formal, written assessment of the chief executive within the past year ? Yes -
Ethics and transparency
Have the board and senior staff reviewed the conflict-of-interest policy and completed and signed disclosure statements in the past year? Yes -
Board composition
Does the board ensure an inclusive board member recruitment process that results in diversity of thought and leadership? Yes -
Board performance
Has the board conducted a formal, written self-assessment of its performance within the past three years? Yes
Organizational demographics
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