California · Private foundation
Activist Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $56k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 81%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 16
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $137k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 81% of the organizations Activist Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 95% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $56k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $85k | 81% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $27k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $2k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $191k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Musicares Foundation Inc | $130,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Share Our Strength | $50,480 | 1 | 0% |
| Bel Air Presbyterian Church | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Conscious Alliance | $11,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Music Sustainability Alliance | $10,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Akichita Youth Athletic Academy Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Do It for the Love | $7,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Last Prisoner Project | $6,848 | 1 | 0% |
| Sundance Institute | $5,250 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Leket Israel Inc | $5,104 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($36k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Activist Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Reverb Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Activist Foundation Inc
- How much does Activist Foundation Inc give?
- Activist Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $56,098 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Activist Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Food & Nutrition (18%), Environment (15%).
- Who are Activist Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Musicares Foundation Inc ($130k), Share Our Strength ($50k), Bel Air Presbyterian Church ($50k).
- Does Activist Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Activist Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Activist Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Reverb Inc, National Philanthropic Trust, Paypal Charitable Giving Fund.
- Where is Activist Foundation Inc based?
- Activist Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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