Skip to content

California · Private foundation

Atkinson Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.9M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
142
Grants FY2024
127
Organizations funded FY2023
14%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$100,000
Organizations funded a year
96 to 127
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
3
Total assets, FY2024
$29M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Atkinson Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $248k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’20’21’22’23
EducationHuman ServicesHealthArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving134$1.9M19%
FY2023127$1.8M14%
FY2022117$1.3M23%
FY202196$1.2M18%
FY2020108$1.2M29%
FY2018109$1.2M54%
FY2017106$967kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$2.0MEducation$1.4MYouth Development$1.1MHealth$1.1MCommunity Improvement$739kCrime & Legal$594kArts & Culture$491kFood & Nutrition$403kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
WA
MT
MN
NY
MA
CA
CO
GA
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Curiodyssey$260,00063%
Faith In Action Bay Area$255,00056%
Boys & Girls Club of the Coastside$225,00078%
Puente de la Costa Sur$215,00071%
El Concilio of San Mateo County$195,000313%
Coastside Hope$190,00054%
Samaritan House$187,50070%
Homework Central$167,500717%
Peninsula Family Service$167,50060%
Peninsula Family Connections$165,00064%
Show all 244 grantees
All grantees of Atkinson Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Curiodyssey$260,00063%
Faith In Action Bay Area$255,00056%
Boys & Girls Club of the Coastside$225,00078%
Puente de la Costa Sur$215,00071%
El Concilio of San Mateo County$195,000313%
Coastside Hope$190,00054%
Samaritan House$187,50070%
Homework Central$167,500717%
Peninsula Family Service$167,50060%
Peninsula Family Connections$165,00064%
Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center$140,00065%
CORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse$105,00060%
Multicultural Institute$104,50046%
Climate Resilient Communities$100,00026%
Youth United for Community Action$100,00016%
Rosalie Rendu Inc$99,000412%
Vida Verde Nature Education$95,00072%
Human Investment Project Inc$83,00060%
San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation$82,00051%
Daly City Peninsula Partnership Collaborative$80,50041%
Abilitypath$77,50060%
Ageup Inc$75,00071%
South County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center$75,00050%
Pie Ranch$72,50061%
Young Men's Christian Association of San Francisco$72,50060%
Call Primrose$70,50061%
Redwood City Friends of Literacy$70,00068%
Kara$70,00071%
Upward Scholars$70,00052%
StarVista$67,50070%
Jasper Ridge Farm$65,00073%
Silicon Valley Urban Debate League$65,00073%
Fresh Lifelines for Youth Inc$65,00060%
Healthy Cities Tutoring Inc$65,00065%
Immigration Institute of the Bay Area$62,50060%
Health Connected$62,50071%
Rebuilding Together Peninsula$62,50061%
Service League of San Mateo County DBA Hope House$60,00060%
Legal Aid Society of San Mateo County$60,00040%
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc$60,00050%
Sonrisas Dental Health Inc$60,00070%
National Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy$60,00061%
Pacifica School Volunteers$60,000615%
Alas Ayudando Latinos a Sonar$58,000412%
Streetcode Academy$57,50041%
The Art of Yoga Project$57,50062%
Adolescent Counseling Services$57,50051%
Foundation for a College Education$57,50061%
Boys & Girls Clubs North San Mateo County$57,50052%
Second Harvest of Silicon Valley$55,00050%
California Clubhouse DBA Aspire House$55,00052%
Jobtrain Inc$52,50060%
Friends for Youth Inc$52,50061%
Senior Coastsiders Inc$52,50042%
East Palo Alto Kids Foundation$50,00053%
San Mateo County Health Foundation$50,00051%
Coastside Child Development Center$50,00051%
Children's Health Council Inc$50,00040%
Notre Dame de Namur University$50,00011%
Mid-Peninsula Boys & Girls Club Inc$50,00041%
One Life Counseling Center$50,00051%
Big Wave Group$50,00014%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula$50,00040%
Counseling and Support Services for Youth$50,00031%
Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Bay Area$47,50070%
Aim High for High School$47,50050%
A Brighter Day Youth Work Program$47,5003n/a
Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development$47,50050%
Leap Arts in Education Fka Leap Imagination in Learning$47,50062%
Eastside College Preparatory School Inc$45,00050%
The Tahirih Justice Center$45,00050%
Community School of Music and Arts$45,00060%
Partners and Advocates for Remarkable Children and Adults$43,50040%
Catholic Charities Cyo of the Archdiocese of San Francisco$42,50050%
The Peninsula Bridge Program$40,50040%
CASA of San Mateo County$40,00040%
San Mateo County Parks and Recreation Foundation$40,00042%
Youth Community Services Inc$40,00032%
Tomando AccionFamilies Taking Action$40,000159%
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center$38,00060%
Abundant Grace Coastside Worker Inc$37,50041%
Centers for Equity and Success Inc$37,50040%
Ravenswood Education Foundation$37,50050%
The Peninsula College Fund$37,50041%
Each Green Corner$35,000414%
The One Love Foundation in Honor of Yeardley Love Inc$35,00030%
Home and Hope$35,00031%
Immigrant Legal Resource Center$35,00030%
Intersection for the Arts$35,00040%
Canopy$35,00041%
Acknowledge Alliance$35,00041%
Girls to Women$35,00049%
Coastside Childrens Programs$33,00031%
New Creation Home Ministries$32,50043%
Hope Horizon East Palo Alto$32,50051%
Resource Area for Teaching$32,50050%
Mannakin Theater and Dance$32,50046%
Music for Minors Inc$32,50050%
San Mateo Police Activities League Inc$32,50042%
The Arc San Francisco$32,50030%
Community Initiatives$30,00020%
Norma Gist Peoples' Free Child Development Program Inc$30,00033%
El Centro de Libertadinc the Freedom Center$30,00021%
Peninsula Volunteers Inc$30,00030%
Kainos Home and Training Center for the Developmentally Disabled$30,00030%
Young Men's Christian Association of Silicon Valley$30,00030%
Lifemoves$30,00030%
NAMI San Mateo County$30,00035%
Sanchez Art Center$30,00043%
Coastside Adult Day Health Center$27,50031%
East Palo Alto Tennis & Tutoring$27,50031%
City of Redwood City$27,5004n/a
San Mateo County Historical Association$27,50021%
Jewish Community Relations Council of San Francisco Marin & Peninsula$27,50040%
Latino Commission on Alcohol and Drug Abuse Services$27,50030%
Marine Science Institute$27,50041%
DrawBridge$26,50044%
The Heal Project$25,00041%
Reading Partners$25,00030%
Girl Scouts of Northern California$25,00030%
St Francis Center of Redwood City$25,00030%
Via Rehabilitation Services Inc$22,50030%
Shine Together Inc$22,50030%
Able Works$22,50031%
Kids & Art Foundation$22,50032%
Pacifica Resource Center$20,00020%
Palo Alto Art Center Foundation$20,00041%
Junior State of America$20,00020%
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees$20,00010%
Wehope$20,00020%
San Francisco Forty-Niners Academy$20,00021%
Levantar$20,00023%
Redwood City Police Activities League Inc$20,00022%
Bay Area Scores$20,00020%
Education Outside$20,00020%
Loaves & Fishes Family Kitchen$20,00021%
Mindful Life Project$20,00020%
Art in Action$20,00041%
Planned Parenthood Mar Monte Inc$17,50020%
Ica San Francisco Work Study Inc$17,5003n/a
Silicon Valley Education Foundation$17,50030%
Catalino Tapia Scholarship Foundati$17,50025%
Foundation for Hearing Research Inc Weingarten Childrens Center$16,50030%
Congregational Church of San Mateo$15,2502n/a
Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum & Zoo$15,00031%
Environmental Volunteers Inc$15,00021%
Friends of Huddart & Wunderlich Parks$15,00025%
Abilitypath Housing$15,0001n/a
Young Audiences of Northern California$15,00031%
Hope 2 One Life Inc$15,000122%
Readysetexcel Inc$15,000215%
Mental Health Association of San Mateo County$15,00010%
Youth Cooking Services$15,00033%
Catholic Worker Hospitality House$15,00013%
Streetlife Ministries$12,50021%
Institute for Human & Social Development$12,50020%
RISE-Reaching and Inspiring Success through Education$12,50026%
Candid$12,00030%
Melp - Ablecloset$10,00015%
East Palo Alto Academy Foundation$10,00011%
Hispanic Foundation of Silicon Valley$10,00010%
Assistance League of San Mateo County$10,00023%
Foundation for Students Rising Above$10,00010%
Ecumenical Hunger Program$10,00010%
Science From Scientists Inc$10,00010%
Thrive Alliance Thrive - The Alliance of Nonprofits$10,0001n/a
Trees Water and People$10,0001n/a
Instituto Laboral de la Raza$10,0001n/a
Science Is Elementary Inc$10,00021%
San Mateo County Sheriffs Activities League$10,00011%
Edgewood Center for Children and Families$10,00010%
San Mateo Public Library Foundation$10,00011%
Hiller Aviation Institute$10,00020%
Iep Collaborative Inc$10,0001n/a
Rotacare Bay Area Inc$10,00011%
Live in Peace$10,00020%
Doctors for Global Health Inc$10,00013%
El Porvenir$10,00011%
Pacifica Education Foundation$10,00023%
Nuestra Casa de East Palo Alto$10,00011%
La Raza Centro Legal - San Francisco$10,00011%
Table of Plenty HMB$10,00022%
Adelante Foundation Inc$10,00011%
Wings Learning Center Inc$10,00010%
Mbolden Change$10,00020%
Redwood City Library Foundation$7,66513%
Life Steps Foundation Inc$7,50010%
Spark Program Inc$7,50010%
Xela AID Partnerships for Self Reliance$7,5001n/a
Harmony Project Bay Area Inc$7,50018%
Strategic Energy Innovations$7,50010%
Volunteers in Medicine - San Francisco$7,50010%
Womens International Network for Guatemalan Solutions Inc$7,50011%
Voices of Recovery San Mateo County$7,50010%
Redwood City Education Foundation$7,50011%
One East Palo Alto$7,50011%
Sojourn to the Past$7,50011%
John F Kennedy Middle School Expeditionary Education Foundation$7,50014%
Spindrift School of Performing Arts$7,50011%
Music in the Schools Foundation$7,500111%
All Five$7,50010%
Jose Valdes Math Foundation$7,50012%
Liahona Motu Foundation$7,50011%
Autism Society of San Francisco Bay Area$7,50013%
Floresta USA Incorporated$7,50010%
Hope Services$7,50010%
Justice at Last Inc$7,50010%
Rape Trauma Services$7,5001n/a
Imagine Bus Project$6,00011%
Save The Bay$5,00010%
California Scottish Rite Foundation$5,00010%
National Coalition of 100 Black Women$5,0001n/a
Conservation Earth Inc$5,00011%
Grassroots International Inc$5,00010%
Sustainable Harvest International$5,00010%
Riekes Center for Human Enhancement$5,00010%
Envisioneers Inc$5,00010%
REEL2e$5,00014%
Agros International$5,00010%
Community Equity Collaborative$5,00013%
Small Schools for Equity$5,00012%
Meals on Wheels of San Francisco Inc$5,00010%
Ambulatory Surgery Access Coalition$5,00010%
Thiebaut Method$5,00011%
Concern America$5,00010%
Vista Center for the Blind and Visually Impaired$5,00010%
Mission Bit$5,00010%
Daly City Public Library Associates$5,00016%
The Peninsula Choral Association Dba Peninsula Girls Chorus$5,00011%
Silverspot Nursery School$5,00012%
Keplers Literary Foundation$5,00012%
Music at Kohl Mansion Inc$5,00012%
Animal Assisted Happiness Inc$5,00011%
Laurens House 4 Positive Change$5,0001n/a
Tax-Aid$5,00011%
Manna Project International$5,0001n/a
1 Grain to 1000 Grains$5,00016%
Mateo Lodge Inc$2,50010%
Coastal Repertory Theatre Inc$2,50011%
Kateri Tekakwitha Mission Fund$2,00014%
Youth Leadership Incubator Inc HackPlus$1,00010%
Pilipino Bayanihan Resource Center$50010%
Coastal Quest$50010%
Youth Leadership Institute$50010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($726k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Atkinson Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCuriodyssey: $260,000 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetFaith In Action Bay Area: $255,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of the Coastside: $225,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetPuente de la Costa Sur: $215,000 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetEl Concilio of San Mateo County: $195,000 over 3y, 13% of budgetCoastside Hope: $190,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetSamaritan House: $187,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetHomework Central: $167,500 over 7y, 17% of budgetPeninsula Family Service: $167,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetPeninsula Family Connections: $165,000 over 6y, 4.3% of budgetPeninsula Conflict Resolution Center: $140,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetCORA Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse: $105,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMulticultural Institute: $104,500 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetClimate Resilient Communities: $100,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetYouth United for Community Action: $100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetRosalie Rendu Inc: $99,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetVida Verde Nature Education: $95,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetHuman Investment Project Inc: $83,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetSan Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation: $82,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetDaly City Peninsula Partnership Collaborative: $80,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetAbilitypath: $77,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAgeup Inc: $75,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetSouth County Community Health Center Inc dba Ravenswood Family Health Center: $75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPie Ranch: $72,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetYoung Men's Christian Association of San Francisco: $72,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCall Primrose: $70,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetRedwood City Friends of Literacy: $70,000 over 6y, 7.5% of budgetKara: $70,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetUpward Scholars: $70,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetStarVista: $67,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJasper Ridge Farm: $65,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetSilicon Valley Urban Debate League: $65,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetFresh Lifelines for Youth Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHealthy Cities Tutoring Inc: $65,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetImmigration Institute of the Bay Area: $62,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHealth Connected: $62,500 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetRebuilding Together Peninsula: $62,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetService League of San Mateo County DBA Hope House: $60,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetLegal Aid Society of San Mateo County: $60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCommunity Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc: $60,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSonrisas Dental Health Inc: $60,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetNational Center for Equine Facilitated Therapy: $60,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetPacifica School Volunteers: $60,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetAlas Ayudando Latinos a Sonar: $58,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetStreetcode Academy: $57,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetThe Art of Yoga Project: $57,500 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetAdolescent Counseling Services: $57,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetFoundation for a College Education: $57,500 over 6y, 0.8% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

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.

The Palo Alto Community FundCA141.7× affinity69 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Palo Alto Community Fund · Bothin Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Monterra Community Fund · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Second Harvest of Silicon Valley · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Embarcadero Media Foundation · Sunlight Giving

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Atkinson Foundation with peer funders

About Atkinson Foundation

How much does Atkinson Foundation give?
Atkinson Foundation reported 142 grants totaling $1,869,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 96 and 127 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Atkinson Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (21%), Education (15%), Youth Development (12%).
Who are Atkinson Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Curiodyssey ($260k), Faith In Action Bay Area ($255k), Boys & Girls Club of the Coastside ($225k).
Does Atkinson Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Atkinson Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Atkinson Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Palo Alto Community Fund, Bothin Foundation, Sand Hill Foundation.
Where is Atkinson Foundation based?
Atkinson Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 285 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Atkinson’s filings →

More from the funding graph