Minnesota · Public charity
Car Donation Foundation
Financially support charitable organizations through motor vehicle & other property donations.
- $17M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2024
- 84
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $104,967
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $605,027
- Organizations funded a year
- 67 to 84
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 41
- Total assets, FY2024
- $11M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 7% of the organizations Car Donation Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $999k 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 | 89 | $16M | 4% |
| FY2023 | 84 | $13M | 7% |
| FY2022 | 81 | $16M | 2% |
| FY2021 | 80 | $25M | 15% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $19M | 4% |
| FY2019 | 68 | $14M | 7% |
| FY2018 | 67 | $15M | 10% |
| FY2017 | 72 | $11M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area | $6,615,950 | 8 | 19% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc | $4,651,157 | 8 | 13% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc | $4,585,238 | 8 | 15% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of San Diego | $4,503,933 | 8 | 27% |
| Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc | $3,724,675 | 8 | 6% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of New Jersey Inc | $3,595,262 | 8 | 10% |
| Veterans Airlift Command Foundation | $3,585,443 | 8 | n/a |
| Semper Fi & America's Fund | $3,470,976 | 8 | 1% |
| Make-A-Wish Foundation of Alaska & Washington | $3,272,771 | 8 | 10% |
| Homes for Our Troops Inc | $3,272,437 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 111 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Car Donation Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 104 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: Make-A-Wish Foundation of America · Inspire Brands Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Lamb Weston Charitable Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Give Back Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Dutch Bros Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · Ch Robinson Worldwide Foundation
How this is measured
About Car Donation Foundation
- How much does Car Donation Foundation give?
- Car Donation Foundation reported 91 grants totaling $16,500,275 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 84 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Car Donation Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (65%), Human Services (18%), Philanthropy (6%).
- Who are Car Donation Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Make-A-Wish Foundation of Greater Bay Area ($6.6M), Make-A-Wish Foundation of Massachusetts and Rhode Island Inc ($4.7M), Make-A-Wish Foundation of the Mid-Atlantic Inc ($4.6M).
- Does Car Donation Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Car Donation Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Make-A-Wish Foundation of America, Inspire Brands Foundation Inc, Charities Aid Foundation America.
- Where is Car Donation Foundation based?
- Car Donation Foundation is based in MN.
Play a game based on Car Donation’s filings →