Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF)

Organization Trends
Who Paid for That? The Problem with Analyzing Federal Grants
Activists both inside and outside the administration are highlighting government spending for the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) to recommend eliminating. But some of the commentary hasn’t been quite right,…
by Michael Watson on February 4, 2025

Special Report
UPDATED: Shining a Light on Zuck Bucks in the 2020 Battleground States
Editor’s Note: May 28, 2024: Updated Texas analysis with new data. January 18, 2022: Analysis completed for all states. The latest in a series exposing Mark Zuckerberg’s…
by Parker Thayer, Hayden Ludwig on May 28, 2024

Foundation Watch
Left-Wing Financiers Stand by CAIR After Pro-Hamas Remarks
The top foundations financing the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) are refusing to rule out future support of CAIR even after the Capital Research Center alerted them to its executive…
by Ryan Mauro on March 27, 2024

Organization Trends
Left-Wing Billionaire Dustin Moskovitz
Facebook billionaire and Asana co-founder Dustin Moskovitz is a somewhat mysterious left-wing force. Moskovitz has spent years building up his own philanthropic networks to channel money into the numerous causes…
by Parker Thayer on September 20, 2022

Philanthropy
“Democracy Funders” Lopsidedly Liberal
Of the top 200 givers to “democracy” as defined and tracked by Candid, 121 are ideologically categorizable as left-of-center and 21 are categorizable as right-of-center. Of the Candid list’s top…
by Michael Watson on May 3, 2022

Deception & Misdirection
The States Are Dialing “Zuck Bucks” out of Elections for Good
A flurry of bills in the past few weeks brings the total number of states that have banned or restricted Zuck bucks to 16, with more on the way. Thanks…
by Hayden Ludwig on March 14, 2022

Foundation Watch
Who Are Arabella’s Big-Dollar Donors?
The “dark money” network created and run by Arabella Advisors is perhaps the most powerful and, until recently, the least-reported-on player in Washington politics. Tracing the Arabella network’s donors is…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 27, 2022

Special Report
Which States Did CTCL Flood with “Zuck Bucks”?
As part of CRC’s cutting edge investigation into how Mark Zuckerberg and the Center for Tech and Civic Life (CTCL) influenced the 2020 election, we’ve mapped out nearly $325 million…
by Parker Thayer, Hayden Ludwig on January 21, 2022

CRC in the News
Best of CRC Media Hits for November 2022
In December 2021, we began to assess the tax filings related to “Zuck bucks”—Mark Zuckerberg’s gift to the 2020 election to help tilt the vote toward Biden—and received a great…
by Sarah Lee on January 20, 2022

Philanthropy
The Gilded Left’s Favorite Bay Area Bankroller
In 2020, more than $2.6 billion that flowed through the Silicon Valley Community Foundation (SVCF), much of it virtually invisible to the public eye. This included more than $744 million…
by Hayden Ludwig on January 11, 2022