California · Private foundation
Breyer Family 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.
- $4.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2023
Read this first · the figures below need context
52% of Breyer Family Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Endowment Foundation, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 10 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2024
- $130,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $104M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Breyer Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $530k 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 | 12 | $2.0M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $2.5M | 23% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $2.1M | 46% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $2.4M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $1.6M | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $1.5M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $2.1M | 43% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $1.1M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $6,565,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The American Film Institute | $2,000,000 | 7 | 2% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $1,420,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Redf | $1,400,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Upsolve Inc | $560,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Teach for America Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital & Research Cntr Fndn | $500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Yale University | $500,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Code2college | $350,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $6,565,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The American Film Institute | $2,000,000 | 7 | 2% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $1,420,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Redf | $1,400,000 | 4 | 8% |
| Upsolve Inc | $560,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Teach for America Inc | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital & Research Cntr Fndn | $500,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Yale University | $500,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Code2college | $350,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Council on Foreign Relations Inc | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Edward Charles Foundation | $250,000 | 1 | 1% |
| United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Just Keep Livin Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Coachartorg | $75,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Him for Her Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Pursuit Transformation Company Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Venture Capital Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Recidiviz Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| American Academy of Achievement | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Alkebulan Fiscal Sponsors | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Center for Global Enterprise Ltd | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| All Raise | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Asia Society | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Horn of Africa Education Development Fund | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($170k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Breyer Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · California Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Breyer Family Foundation
- How much does Breyer Family Foundation give?
- Breyer Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $4,300,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Breyer Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (35%), Education (28%), Philanthropy (23%).
- Who are Breyer Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Metropolitan Museum of Art ($6.6M), The American Film Institute ($2.0M), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art ($1.4M).
- Does Breyer Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Breyer Family 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 Breyer Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Breyer Family Foundation based?
- Breyer Family Foundation is based in CA.
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