California · Private foundation
Chino Cienega 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.
- $575k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Chino Cienega Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $212k 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 | 22 | $565k | 32% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $487k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $369k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $427k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $261k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $274k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $293k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $284k | 14% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| War Legacies Project Inc | $425,000 | 9 | 53% |
| The Henry L Stimson Center | $376,500 | 9 | 0% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $375,000 | 9 | n/a |
| The George Washington University | $320,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Ashoka | $190,516 | 9 | 0% |
| University of Colorado Foundation | $130,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Working America | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Project Renew | $100,000 | 2 | 26% |
| Accelerate Change Inc | $80,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $71,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 36 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($603k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Chino Cienega Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 29 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The McKnight Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Chino Cienega Foundation
- How much does Chino Cienega Foundation give?
- Chino Cienega Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $575,008 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Chino Cienega Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (34%), Education (16%), Civil Rights (16%).
- Who are Chino Cienega Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: War Legacies Project Inc ($425k), The Henry L Stimson Center ($377k), American Friends Service Committee ($375k).
- Does Chino Cienega Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chino Cienega 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 Chino Cienega Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc, Foundation to Promote Open Society, The McKnight Foundation.
- Where is Chino Cienega Foundation based?
- Chino Cienega Foundation is based in CA.
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