California · Private foundation
Chizen Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $385k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 56
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 48% of the organizations Chizen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 19 | $375k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $371k | 48% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $369k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 27 | $384k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $643k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 30 | $541k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 36 | $620k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 56 | $570k | n/a |
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kqed Inc | $975,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Tawonga Jewish Community Corporation | $528,650 | 8 | 2% |
| Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association | $200,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Silicon Valley Education Foundation | $175,000 | 7 | 0% |
| That Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation | $140,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Silicon Valley Creates | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $33,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Khan Academy Inc | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Resource Area for Teaching | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 99 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Chizen Family Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Sobrato Family Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Koret Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Chizen Family Foundation
- How much does Chizen Family Foundation give?
- Chizen Family Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $385,070 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 56 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Chizen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Recreation & Sports (14%).
- Who are Chizen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Kqed Inc ($975k), Tawonga Jewish Community Corporation ($529k), Charcot-Marie-Tooth Association ($200k).
- Does Chizen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Chizen Family 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 Chizen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The David and Lucile Packard Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Where is Chizen Family Foundation based?
- Chizen Family Foundation is based in CA.
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