California · Private foundation
Bytelaunch 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.
- $5k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2024
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,200
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 11
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $160k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 25% of the organizations Bytelaunch Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $192 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 | 5 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $5k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $19k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $11k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $6k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $1k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $4k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $2k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Child Creativity Lab | $11,335 | 7 | 1% |
| Earthroots Field School Inc | $9,026 | 5 | 1% |
| Heartwood Foundation | $4,502 | 2 | n/a |
| Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Orangewood Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Little Free Library | $2,409 | 2 | 0% |
| The Surfrider Foundation | $2,059 | 2 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Child Creativity Lab | $11,335 | 7 | 1% |
| Earthroots Field School Inc | $9,026 | 5 | 1% |
| Heartwood Foundation | $4,502 | 2 | n/a |
| Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies Inc | $4,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Electronic Frontier Foundation Inc | $3,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of the Sea Lions Inc Dba Pacific Marine Mammal Center | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Orangewood Foundation | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Aquarium of the Pacific Corporation | $2,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Little Free Library | $2,409 | 2 | 0% |
| The Surfrider Foundation | $2,059 | 2 | 0% |
| Journey School | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Foothill Elementary PTA | $192 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($6k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bytelaunch 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.
Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Bytelaunch Foundation
- How much does Bytelaunch Foundation give?
- Bytelaunch Foundation reported 5 grants totaling $5,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 11 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Bytelaunch Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (26%), Civil Rights (24%), Education (17%).
- Who are Bytelaunch Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Child Creativity Lab ($11k), Earthroots Field School Inc ($9k), Heartwood Foundation ($5k).
- Does Bytelaunch Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bytelaunch 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 Bytelaunch Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is Bytelaunch Foundation based?
- Bytelaunch Foundation is based in CA.
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