California · Private foundation
Celebrate Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 34 to 43
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Celebrate Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 35 | $1.3M | 6% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $911k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $905k | 22% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $672k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $1.8M | 23% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $718k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $501k | 11% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $429k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of San Francisco | $716,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co | $430,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Archbishop Riordan High School | $363,118 | 7 | n/a |
| Kino Border Initiative Inc | $360,000 | 8 | 4% |
| Homeless Prenatal Program Inc | $334,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Mission Dolores Academy | $311,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Cristo Rey San Jose High School | $305,000 | 8 | 1% |
| The Basic Fund | $220,000 | 7 | 1% |
| St Anthony Foundation | $200,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Holy Family Day Home | $171,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 32 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Celebrate Foundation Inc 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: The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Outrageous Foundation Inc · Trust Funds Incorporated · Janet and Clint Reilly Family Foundation · Odell Rs & Hp Fund Tua-Main · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Sovereign Military Order of Malta Western Association-Usa · The William G Irwin Charity Foundation · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Catholic Community Foundation of Los Angeles
How this is measured
About Celebrate Foundation Inc
- How much does Celebrate Foundation Inc give?
- Celebrate Foundation Inc reported 36 grants totaling $1,349,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 34 and 43 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Celebrate Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Religion (28%), Health (12%).
- Who are Celebrate Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: University of San Francisco ($716k), The National Catholic Reporter Publishing Co ($430k), Archbishop Riordan High School ($363k).
- Does Celebrate Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Celebrate Foundation Inc 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 Celebrate Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Carl Gellert and Celia Berta Gellert Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Outrageous Foundation Inc.
- Where is Celebrate Foundation Inc based?
- Celebrate Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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