New York · Private foundation
Cavali 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.
- $729k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $186,375
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 26
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Cavali Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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 | 14 | $543k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $523k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $562k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $661k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $975k | 58% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $383k | 54% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $667k | 62% |
| FY2017 | 19 | $546k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Voter Registration Project | $365,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Voter Participation Center | $350,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Accelerate Institute | $350,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $350,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Neighborhood Trust Financial Partners Inc | $175,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Dalton Schools Inc | $140,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Common Ground | $140,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $130,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Voteorg | $120,000 | 2 | 1% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Foundation Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cavali 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Impactassetsinc · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · New Venture Fund · Marin Community Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation
How this is measured
About Cavali Foundation
- How much does Cavali Foundation give?
- Cavali Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $728,875 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 26 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cavali Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Public Benefit (26%), Philanthropy (21%).
- Who are Cavali Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Voter Registration Project ($365k), The Voter Participation Center ($350k), Accelerate Institute ($350k).
- Does Cavali Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cavali 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 Cavali Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Tides Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Cavali Foundation based?
- Cavali Foundation is based in NY.
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