California · Private foundation
Caldera 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.
- $511k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Caldera Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k 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 | $461k | 30% |
| FY2024 | 12 | $385k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $547k | 69% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $488k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $420k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $465k | 60% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $573k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rocky Mountain Institute | $378,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Ploughshares Fund Inc | $350,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Project Drawdown | $230,000 | 4 | 9% |
| The Campaign Legal Center Inc | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $185,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Issue One | $130,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Climate Central Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Pacific Forest Trust Incorporated | $100,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Pacific Institute | $100,000 | 3 | 36% |
| Telos Group Inc | $70,000 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($865k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Caldera Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 31 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: The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Impactassetsinc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Caldera Foundation
- How much does Caldera Foundation give?
- Caldera Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $511,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Caldera Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (33%), Public Benefit (12%), International (12%).
- Who are Caldera Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Rocky Mountain Institute ($378k), Ploughshares Fund Inc ($350k), Project Drawdown ($230k).
- Does Caldera Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Caldera 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 Caldera Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Caldera Foundation based?
- Caldera Foundation is based in CA.
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