Delaware · Private foundation
Better Future Foundation
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.
- $112k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 2
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.8M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations Better Future Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 14 | $112k | 86% |
| FY2024 | 2 | $110k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $5k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy Aging Villages for All | $150,000 | 2 | 89% |
| Lamorinda Village Inc | $10,600 | 1 | 3% |
| Village to Village Network Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Washington Area Villages Exchange | $10,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Chamber Music San Francisco | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Wigmore Hall Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabot Space & Science Center Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Inquiry Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 15 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy Aging Villages for All | $150,000 | 2 | 89% |
| Lamorinda Village Inc | $10,600 | 1 | 3% |
| Village to Village Network Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Washington Area Villages Exchange | $10,000 | 1 | 11% |
| Chamber Music San Francisco | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Wigmore Hall Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabot Space & Science Center Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Inquiry Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Foundation for California Community Colleges | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Orinda Network for Education | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| California Council on Science and Techno logy | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Glyndebourne America Inc Co the Law Offices of Richard M Block | $2,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Orinda Library Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 2% |
Where it is load-bearing
Better Future Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 12 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Better Future Foundation
- How much does Better Future Foundation give?
- Better Future Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $111,600 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 2 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Better Future Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (57%), Philanthropy (25%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are Better Future Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Healthy Aging Villages for All ($150k), Lamorinda Village Inc ($11k), Village to Village Network Inc ($10k).
- Does Better Future Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Better Future 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 Better Future Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Better Future Foundation based?
- Better Future Foundation is based in DE.
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