California · Private foundation
Ambos Mundos
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $52k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $419k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Ambos Mundos funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 8 | $52k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $84k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $60k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $49k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $67k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $56k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $45k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $44k | 25% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Policy Alliance | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rocking the Boat Inc | $83,100 | 9 | 1% |
| Cato Institute | $70,000 | 9 | 0% |
| National Outdoor Leadership School | $48,000 | 9 | 0% |
| 826 Valencia | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Children's Day School Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| San Francisco Bicycle Coalition | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Schools of the Sacred Heart-San Francisco | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Burning Man Project | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Bay School of San Francisco | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Drug Policy Alliance | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Rocking the Boat Inc | $83,100 | 9 | 1% |
| Cato Institute | $70,000 | 9 | 0% |
| National Outdoor Leadership School | $48,000 | 9 | 0% |
| 826 Valencia | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Children's Day School Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 0% |
| San Francisco Bicycle Coalition | $25,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Schools of the Sacred Heart-San Francisco | $15,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Burning Man Project | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Bay School of San Francisco | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Mission Graduates | $14,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Spur - San Francisco Bay Area Planning and Urban Research Association | $13,000 | 5 | 0% |
| PKD Foundation | $10,650 | 1 | 0% |
| Artway Inc | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Mission Local SF Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Homeless Prenatal Program Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| San Francisco Public Press | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Walk San Francisco Foundation | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Youth Speaks Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jamestown Community Center | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pelotonia | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($15k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ambos Mundos 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Crankstart Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
About Ambos Mundos
- How much does Ambos Mundos give?
- Ambos Mundos reported 8 grants totaling $52,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ambos Mundos fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Health (22%), Public Benefit (17%).
- Who are Ambos Mundos's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Drug Policy Alliance ($90k), Rocking the Boat Inc ($83k), Cato Institute ($70k).
- Does Ambos Mundos fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ambos Mundos 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 Ambos Mundos?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Ambos Mundos based?
- Ambos Mundos is based in CA.
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