California · Private foundation
Charles Piper Cost 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.
- $62k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 24 to 43
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $538k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Charles Piper Cost Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 23 | $62k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $64k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 36 | $60k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $62k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $63k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $54k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Fe Pro Musica Inc | $55,600 | 4 | 2% |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $14,700 | 6 | 0% |
| Joe Goode Performance Group | $14,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Habitot Childrens Museum | $14,500 | 6 | 2% |
| La Luz Center | $11,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Enterprise Community Partners Inc | $10,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Producers Partnership Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Golden State Salmon Association Inc | $10,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Fulcrum Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Bighorn River Alliance | $8,500 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($80k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Charles Piper Cost 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: Santa Fe Community Foundation · The Abeles Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · Gale Family Foundation · Thornburg Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · Albuquerque Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Charles Piper Cost Foundation
- How much does Charles Piper Cost Foundation give?
- Charles Piper Cost Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $62,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 43 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Charles Piper Cost Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Environment (13%), Education (9%).
- Who are Charles Piper Cost Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Santa Fe Pro Musica Inc ($56k), Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund ($15k), Joe Goode Performance Group ($15k).
- Does Charles Piper Cost Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Charles Piper Cost 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 Charles Piper Cost Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Fe Community Foundation, The Abeles Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Charles Piper Cost Foundation based?
- Charles Piper Cost Foundation is based in CA.
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