California · Private foundation
Bruce and Jina Veaco 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.
- $363k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 44%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 44% of the organizations Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $358k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $318k | 44% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $220k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $250k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $273k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $242k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 3 | $185k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $183k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Fund for Unicef | $1,230,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Thrive Scholars | $325,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $250,000 | 7 | 0% |
| South Central Scholars Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Formidable Joy | $38,000 | 4 | 7% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Riviera Tennis Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Fund for Unicef | $1,230,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Thrive Scholars | $325,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $250,000 | 7 | 0% |
| South Central Scholars Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Formidable Joy | $38,000 | 4 | 7% |
| The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Wildlife Fund Inc | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Riviera Tennis Foundation | $15,000 | 3 | 14% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Margarets Episcopal School | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Gates Philanthropy Partners | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Saint John's Health Center Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Angel's Nest Tlp | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Wikimedia Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation 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.
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How this is measured
About Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation
- How much does Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation give?
- Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $362,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (75%), Education (19%), Health (2%).
- Who are Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: United States Fund for Unicef ($1.2M), Thrive Scholars ($325k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($250k).
- Does Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 44% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bruce and Jina Veaco 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 Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation based?
- Bruce and Jina Veaco Foundation is based in CA.
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