California · Private foundation
Cisco Systems Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $18M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 2
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.2M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $610,600
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $610,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $243M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Cisco Systems Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 1 | $611k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 2 | $27M | 100% |
| FY2018 | 69 | $15M | n/a |
84% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Philanthropy$31MEducation$11MInternational$875kHousing & Shelter$427kYouth Development$299kEnvironment$275kHealth$265kScience & Tech$251kOther$0
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bright Funds Foundation | $23,931,340 | 1 | 28% |
| Beneficent Technology Inc | $10,871,590 | 1 | 79% |
| Citizen Schools Inc | $415,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Opportunity International ($300K for $500K from DAF) | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medic Mobile Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Living Goods (formerly InnoVision Shelter Network) | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ushahidi Inc | $225,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Fresh Lifelines for Youth | $219,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Guru Krupa Foundation | $206,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Digital Green Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bright Funds Foundation | $23,931,340 | 1 | 28% |
| Beneficent Technology Inc | $10,871,590 | 1 | 79% |
| Citizen Schools Inc | $415,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Opportunity International ($300K for $500K from DAF) | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medic Mobile Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Living Goods (formerly InnoVision Shelter Network) | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ushahidi Inc | $225,000 | 1 | 10% |
| Fresh Lifelines for Youth | $219,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Guru Krupa Foundation | $206,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Digital Green Foundation | $200,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Nethope Inc | $200,000 | 1 | 2% |
| InSTEDD | $199,990 | 1 | n/a |
| Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation | $150,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kiva Microfunds | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Students 2 Science Inc | $125,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 114th Partnership Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Bright Funds Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 50CAN Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the World Food Program Inc | $100,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Tech Museum of Innovation | $80,800 | 1 | n/a |
| The Sierra Club Foundation | $75,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Internews Network | $74,993 | 1 | 0% |
| All Stars Helping Kids Inc | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| PowerMyLearning Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunnyvale Community Services | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chabot Space & Science Center | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Swords to Plowshares Veterans Rights Organization | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Odd Fellow-Rebekah Childrens Home of California | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Palo Alto Junior Museum and Zoo | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Edgewood Center for Children and Families | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| ALAS (Ayudando Latinos A Sonar Inc) | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dream Catchers Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Catholic Charities CYO of the Archdiocese of San Francisco | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Child Advocates of Silicon Valley | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| After School All Stars Bay Area | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Aim High for High School | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Future Majority Project | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Child Abuse Prevention Council of Contra Costa County | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Community Resources for Science | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Canopy | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sacred Heart Community Center | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| East Bay Agency for Children | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| StartVista | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Youth Alive | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Congregation Sherith Israel | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| LeMoyne Community Center | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Overcoming Relationship Abuse (CORA) | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Counseling & Support Services for Youth | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Silicon Valley Education Foundation | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity East Bay/Silicon Valley | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| South Shore Habitat for Humanity Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity Greater Vancouver | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Greater Indy Habitat for Humanity | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity of Wake County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Metro Louisville Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity International Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Austin Habitat for Humanity Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Tacomapierce County Habitat for Humanit | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity Central Arizona | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity Philadelphia Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Gwinnett County Habitat for Humanity | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cisco Systems Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 17.
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.
Habitat for Humanity International IncGA15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Habitat for Humanity International Inc · Bright Funds Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Charity Bridge Fund · American Express Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · United Way Worldwide · Impactassetsinc · The US Charitable Gift Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
About Cisco Systems Foundation
- How much does Cisco Systems Foundation give?
- Cisco Systems Foundation reported 2 itemized grants totaling $1,221,200, out of $18,398,341 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Cisco Systems Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (17%), Education (6%), International (0%).
- Who are Cisco Systems Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Bright Funds Foundation ($24M), Beneficent Technology Inc ($11M), Citizen Schools Inc ($415k).
- Does Cisco Systems Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cisco Systems Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cisco Systems Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Habitat for Humanity International Inc, Bright Funds Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Cisco Systems Foundation based?
- Cisco Systems Foundation is based in CA.
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