California · Private foundation
Argonaut Charitable Foundation
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.
- $137k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 82
- Grants FY2024
- 73
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 62 to 73
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $959k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Argonaut Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 | 82 | $142k | 12% |
| FY2023 | 73 | $112k | 32% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $109k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 71 | $123k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 62 | $101k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvey Mudd College | $17,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Art Center College of Design | $16,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network | $15,000 | 5 | 0% |
| University of Oregon Foundation | $13,500 | 2 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $13,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Constructive Learning Project | $10,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Awakening to God Ministries | $9,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Protect Our Winters | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Maine Coast Heritage Trust | $9,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 70 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($262k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Argonaut Charitable Foundation 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Pond Family Foundation · Bucy Family Fund · Brittingham Family Foundation · Mosher Foundation · The Wood-Claeyssens Foundation · Manitou Fund · California Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Argonaut Charitable Foundation
- How much does Argonaut Charitable Foundation give?
- Argonaut Charitable Foundation reported 82 grants totaling $137,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 73 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Argonaut Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (17%), Environment (14%), Health (14%).
- Who are Argonaut Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Harvey Mudd College ($17k), Art Center College of Design ($17k), Santa Barbara Wildlife Care Network ($15k).
- Does Argonaut Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Argonaut Charitable Foundation 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 Argonaut Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Argonaut Charitable Foundation based?
- Argonaut Charitable Foundation is based in CA.
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