Arizona · Private foundation
Ckko Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $386k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 27
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Ckko Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 | 26 | $326k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $375k | 14% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $315k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $395k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $325k | 21% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $317k | 4% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $291k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $276k | 27% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Southwest Wildlife Foundation | $250,000 | 9 | 46% |
| Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center | $212,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Felicia Penzell Weber Jewish Community High School Inc | $110,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Wild at Heart Inc | $105,000 | 9 | 4% |
| Humane Society of Charlotte Inc | $90,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Desert Sounds Performing Arts Inc | $88,000 | 9 | 11% |
| Soldiers Best Friend | $86,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Gibbon Conservation Center | $85,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Temple Sinai Inc | $77,500 | 9 | n/a |
| Phoenix Conservatory of Music | $70,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ckko Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: Arizona Community Foundation · Thunderbirds Charities · American Express Foundation · Virginia G Piper Charitable Trust · John F Long Foundation Inc · The Molly Lawson Foundation · The Bryan and Amy Lewis Family Foundation Inc · Halpern-Oppenheimer Family Foundation · Rosenberg Family Foundation Inc · The Selig Foundation Inc · Ron and Lisa Brill Charitable Trust · Fiesta Events Inc
How this is measured
About Ckko Foundation
- How much does Ckko Foundation give?
- Ckko Foundation reported 27 grants totaling $386,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ckko Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (26%), Health (23%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Ckko Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Southwest Wildlife Foundation ($250k), Southwest Autism Research and Resource Center ($212k), The Felicia Penzell Weber Jewish Community High School Inc ($110k).
- Does Ckko Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ckko Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ckko Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Arizona Community Foundation, Thunderbirds Charities, American Express Foundation.
- Where is Ckko Foundation based?
- Ckko Foundation is based in AZ.
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