New Jersey · Private foundation
Big G Charitable Foundation Corp
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $207k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2024
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 24%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
56% of Big G Charitable Foundation Corp’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Nature Conservancy, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 15 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Big G Charitable Foundation Corp named its own grantees at scale: 17 organizations, $207k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 24% of the organizations Big G Charitable Foundation Corp 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; $95k 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 | 19 | $207k | 37% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $251k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $204k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $196k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $136k | 81% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $115k | 60% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $80k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $50k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sea Shepherd Conservation Society | $255,384 | 6 | 1% |
| The Valerie Fund | $115,000 | 8 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $107,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wildaid Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Church of Biocentrism Inc | $79,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Zufall Health Center Inc | $65,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ocean Alliance Inc | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Raptor Trust | $40,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Friends of Randolph Animal Pound | $39,500 | 7 | 4% |
| Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc | $37,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 51 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($173k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Big G Charitable Foundation Corp 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 Galesi Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Network for Good · Verizon Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Big G Charitable Foundation Corp
- How much does Big G Charitable Foundation Corp give?
- Big G Charitable Foundation Corp reported 19 grants totaling $206,840 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Big G Charitable Foundation Corp fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (33%), Environment (24%), Health (11%).
- Who are Big G Charitable Foundation Corp's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sea Shepherd Conservation Society ($255k), The Valerie Fund ($115k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($107k).
- Does Big G Charitable Foundation Corp fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Big G Charitable Foundation Corp accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Big G Charitable Foundation Corp?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Galesi Family Foundation Inc, Community Foundation of New Jersey, Network for Good.
- Where is Big G Charitable Foundation Corp based?
- Big G Charitable Foundation Corp is based in NJ.
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