How much does Cecil B de Mille Foundation give?

Cecil B de Mille Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $962,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Cecil B de Mille Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (51%), Animals (20%), Education (13%).

Who are Cecil B de Mille Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The American Film Institute ($840k), Red Bucket Equine Rescue ($775k), Academy Foundation ($700k).

Does Cecil B de Mille Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Cecil B de Mille 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 Cecil B de Mille Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Annenberg Foundation, California Community Foundation, The Ayco Charitable Foundation.

Where is Cecil B de Mille Foundation based?

Cecil B de Mille Foundation is based in CA.

Cecil B de Mille Foundation

Cecil B de Mille Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Cecil B de Mille 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.

$963k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$200k

Largest

01What it funds

0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$3.4MAnimals$1.3MEducation$851kHuman Services$423kScience & Tech$215kHealth$156kPublic Benefit$74kYouth Development$55kOther$0

02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k1 grant · $500
$10k–50k8 grants · $162k
$50k–250k6 grants · $800k

$25,000

Median grant

States reached

$7.4M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
RED BUCKET EQUINE RESCUE	$200,000
ACADEMY MUSEUM OF MOTION PICTURE	$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA	$150,000
AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE	$100,000
HOOFS & WOOFS ANIMAL RESCUE	$100,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB	$50,000
NATIONAL FILM PRESERVATION FOUNDATION	$30,000
THE POLLINATION PROJECT FOUNDATION	$25,000
BFI AMERICA	$25,000
UCLA SCHOOL OF THEATRE	$25,000
HOAG HOSPITAL FOUNDATION	$25,000
DON DIEGO FUND	$12,000
UCLA FOUNDATION	$10,000
WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION	$10,000
CANCER FOUNDATION OF SANTA BARBARA	$500

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$5.1M · 29 repeat orgs$790k to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.1M

$765k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%

+29%

Still filing today

66%

53%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Arts & CultureAnimalsEducationPublic BenefitHealthHuman ServicesOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

TA
THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE
9× · 2017–2025 · $840k · revenue +30%
HA
HOOFS AND WOOFS ANIMAL RESCUE
7× · 2019–2025 · $345k · revenue +422% · 65% of their budget
CI
CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
3× · 2018–2024 · $210k · revenue +0%

Funded once

AM
AUTRY MUSEUM OF THE AMERICAN WEST
one grant, 2019 · $125k · revenue -45%
DA
Denkai Animal Sanctuary
one grant, 2022 · $90k · revenue -31%
IG
Individual grant recipient
one grant, 2017 · $90k

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Academy of Television Arts and Sciences

The Television Academy is dedicated to celebrating excellence, innovation and the advancement of the telecommunications arts and sciences through recognition, education and leadership, while fostering a diverse, inclusive and accessible…

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The San Diego Foundation

The san diego foundation inspires enduring philanthropy and enables community solutions to improve the quality of life in our region.

Philanthropy

California Institute for Immunology and Immunotherapy

To harness the power of the human immune system and advanced computing technologies to create and translate scientific discoveries into next generation vaccines and therapies for prevention, control and cure of chronic diseases, enabling…

Health

United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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The Uc Davis Foundation

The mission of the uc davis foundation is to secure, steward and manage private gifts for uc davis.

Education

Ucsf Foundation Investment Company

The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.

Education

Uc Santa Barbara Foundation

The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…

Education

California Dental Association Foundation

The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.

Science & Tech

Naval Postgraduate School Foundation Inc

Our mission is to support the naval postgraduate school by providing funding and programmatic support for education, research, technology development, institutional initiatives, and community programs that advance national security and…

Education

Uc Riverside Foundation

To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.

Education

University of California Irvine Foundation

The mission of the university of california, irvine foundation (uc irvine foundation) is to raise and manage private funds to support uc irvine's broader mission of excellence in teaching, research and public service. to this end, the uc…

Education

San Diego State University Foundation Sdsu Research Foundation

To support and further the research, education and community service objectives of san diego state university.

Education

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Heritage Foundation; the most unlike its peers is Red Bucket Equine Rescue. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 82 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

51/52

Grantees still filing

39/52

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$2,214,300Arts & Culture$1,833,100Animals$1,221,000Education$1,017,500Public Benefit$128,800Human Services$108,500Health$97,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

The Annenberg FoundationPA12.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Annenberg Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Cecil B de Mille Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cecil B de Mille Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

1get no government money at all

7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home