Oregon · Private foundation
Ceres Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $135k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 35
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.9M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Ceres Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | 15 | $135k | 13% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $131k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 32 | $128k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $125k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 26 | $125k | 4% |
| FY2020 | 32 | $113k | 28% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $114k | 46% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $96k | 52% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $190,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Montalvo Association | $109,100 | 5 | 0% |
| The Global Uplift Project | $57,066 | 7 | 7% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $56,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $42,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Fistula Foundation | $34,586 | 7 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $32,040 | 6 | 0% |
| Environmental and Energy Study Institute | $30,300 | 5 | 1% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sierra Club Foundation | $26,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($150k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ceres Charitable 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 · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · The Valley Foundation · Ranae Desantis Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Heffernan Group Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · United Way Worldwide · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Ceres Charitable Foundation
- How much does Ceres Charitable Foundation give?
- Ceres Charitable Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $134,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 35 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ceres Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (26%), Environment (22%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Ceres Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($190k), Montalvo Association ($109k), The Global Uplift Project ($57k).
- Does Ceres Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ceres Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ceres Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation.
- Where is Ceres Charitable Foundation based?
- Ceres Charitable Foundation is based in OR.
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