California · Private foundation
Binder 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.
- $871k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 34
- Grants FY2024
- 29
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 45%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 45% of the organizations Binder Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $403k 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 | 32 | $716k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $793k | 45% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $3.7M | 29% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $885k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $927k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $900k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $846k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 35 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Children's Hospital Los Angeles | $3,022,500 | 4 | 0% |
| American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research | $795,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Give-Mentor-Love Foundation | $600,000 | 2 | 32% |
| The Caltech Y | $540,000 | 7 | 18% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $460,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Georgetown University | $443,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Village School Inc | $292,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Dexter Southfield Inc | $276,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Carlthorp School | $235,500 | 6 | 1% |
| The Winsor School | $195,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 78 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Binder Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 64 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: California Community Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Gibson Dunn & Crutcher Foundation · The Eli and Edythe Broad Foundation · Wm Keck Foundation
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Binder Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
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About Binder Foundation
- How much does Binder Foundation give?
- Binder Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $871,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Binder Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (40%), Health (37%), Social Science (8%).
- Who are Binder Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Children's Hospital Los Angeles ($3.0M), American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research ($795k), Give-Mentor-Love Foundation ($600k).
- Does Binder Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 45% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Binder 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 Binder Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Binder Foundation based?
- Binder Foundation is based in CA.
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