Grants Awarded


Environmental Grants Program

California State Parks Foundation
Californians for Safe Neighborhood Parks and Clean Water
CalPIRG Foundation
Coalition for Clean Air
EarthAction Network
Earthjustice Legal Defense Fund
Institutes for Journalism and Natural Resources
Marine Conservation Biology Institute
Natural Resources Defense Council
Remote Sensing Institute
Resource Renewal Institute
Solar Electric Light Fund
Union of Concerned Scientists
Youth for Environmental Sanity


$  1,000
50,000
10,000
25,000
15,000
15,000
20,000
15,000
25,000
50,000
15,000
10,000
75,000
25,000

Kirsch Investigators Program

Ben A. Barres, MD, PhD,
     Stanford School of Medicine
Elizabeth H. Blackburn, PhD,
     University of California, San Francisco
Ronald A. DePinho, MD,
     Harvard Medical School, Dana Farber Cancer Institute
Alexander J. Varshavsky, PhD,
     California Institute of Technology



$540,000

540,000

540,000

540,000

Medical and Scientific Project Grants Program

Columbia University
     (Dr. Angela Christiano)
Foundation Fighting Blindness
Sansum Medical Research Institute
Stanford University
     (Drs. Ben A. Barres and Mark S. Blumenkranz)
Steadman-Hawkins Sports Medicine Foundation
University of Arizona/Spacewatch



$100,000

100,000
100,000
200,000

100,000
100,000

Political Reform and Global Theme Grants Program

Center for Public Integrity
Citizens Research Foundation
Ploughshares Fund
Public Campaign
Public Campaign Action Fund
State of the World Forum



$  50,000
15,000
100,000
750,000
86,750
25,000

Silicon Valley Community Grants Program

Albert L. Schultz Jewish Community Center
All Stars Helping Kids
American Chemical Society (Santa Clara Chapter)
American Musical Theater of San Jose
Bay Area Action
Big Brothers Big Sisters of San Francisco and the Peninsula
Cantor Center for Visual Arts (Stanford University)
Center for Excellence in Nonprofits
Children’s Discovery Museum
Children’s Health Council
City Year San Jose/Silicon Valley
Community School of Music and Arts
Community Foundation Silicon Valley
Compass Point Nonprofit Services Silicon Valley
Computer Museum History Center
Cultural Initiatives Silicon Valley
De Anza College
El Camino Hospital Foundation
Foothill-DeAnza Community Colleges Foundation
Los Altos Cultural Association
Los Altos Educational Foundation
Meals of Marin/A Bunch of Good Guys
Menlo School
National Multiple Sclerosis Society (Silicon Valley Chapter)
Odd Fellow-Rebekah Children’s Services
Opportunities Industrialization Center West
Peninsula Conservation Center Foundation
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte
Resource Area for Teachers (RAFT)
Ronald McDonald House
Sacred Heart Community Service
Santa Clara County Biotechnology Education Partnership
Santa Clara County Bar Association Law Foundation
San Jose Children’s Musical Theater
Sor Juana Ines Services for Abused Women
The Tech Museum of Innovation
United Way Silicon Valley
YMCA of the Mid-Peninsula



$       4,000
5,000
5,000
500,000
520
5,000
4,975
15,000
10,000
14,100
25,000
5,040
324,400
15,000
64,000
25,000
2,000,000
5,000
60,000
20,000
20,000
5,000
5,000
4,000
20,000
10,000
5,000
5,000
100,000
10,000
25,000
32,325
30,000
25,000
5,000
100,600
50,000
50,000

Discretionary Grants

ARCS Foundation (Northern California Chapter)
The Aspen Institute
Avon Breast Cancer 3-Day
Exploratorium
FIRST
Junior League of Palo Alto/Midpeninsula
Mills College
MIT
MIT Club of Northern California
MIT Entrepreneurship Center
National Public Radio
ORBIS International
Project Open Hand
Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
Saddle Pals Therapeutic Center
ShareSpace Foundation
Solar Motions
United Way of the Bay Area
Unihi Foundation/University High School
WYO Theater



$  1,650
10,000
3,000
1,000
81,500
19,100
25,000
13,100
2,500
2,100
5,000
10,000
800
1,000
19,750
50,000
90,000
950
50,000
10,000