California · Private foundation
Caldwell Fisher 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.
- $3.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 39
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $24M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 55% of the organizations Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 49% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $406k 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 | 7 | $3.7M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $829k | 55% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $1.2M | 41% |
| FY2021 | 39 | $1.3M | 62% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $2.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sheriff's Meadow Foundation | $1,000,000 | 1 | 31% |
| Conservation International Foundation | $375,000 | 4 | 0% |
| California School of Mechanical Arts | $372,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Cape Eleuthera Foundation Inc | $370,000 | 3 | 5% |
| National Redistricting Foundation | $250,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Project Drawdown | $225,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Common Sense Media | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association Inc | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Exploratorium | $175,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 57 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Oberndorf Family Foundation · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Swartz Foundation Trust
How this is measured
About Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation
- How much does Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation give?
- Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $3,745,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 39 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Science & Tech (56%), Environment (19%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Sheriff's Meadow Foundation ($1.0M), Conservation International Foundation ($375k), California School of Mechanical Arts ($373k).
- Does Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Caldwell Fisher 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 Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation based?
- Caldwell Fisher Family Foundation is based in CA.
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