California · Private foundation
Cleo Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $179k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $30,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 13
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Cleo Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 11 | $179k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $165k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $165k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $170k | 46% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $148k | 9% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $155k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $133k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 12 | $140k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ventana Wilderness Alliance | $145,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Community Partnership for Youth | $135,000 | 7 | 4% |
| The Epicenter of Monterey | $90,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Anderson Valley Education Foundation | $77,500 | 6 | 17% |
| Big Sur Land Trust | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Coastal Kids Home Care | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Rancho Cielo Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Olinga Learning | $45,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Palenke Arts | $45,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Ukiah | $40,000 | 3 | 4% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ventana Wilderness Alliance | $145,000 | 7 | 4% |
| Community Partnership for Youth | $135,000 | 7 | 4% |
| The Epicenter of Monterey | $90,500 | 7 | 2% |
| Anderson Valley Education Foundation | $77,500 | 6 | 17% |
| Big Sur Land Trust | $70,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Coastal Kids Home Care | $60,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Rancho Cielo Inc | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Olinga Learning | $45,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Palenke Arts | $45,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Ukiah | $40,000 | 3 | 4% |
| George Mark Childrens Fund | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Digital Nest Inc | $36,000 | 2 | 1% |
| ONeill Sea Odyssey | $23,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Mendocino Woodlands Camp Association | $22,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Future Citizens Foundation Dba the First Tee of Monterey County | $20,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Montage Health Foundation | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Mearth | $15,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Redwood Empire Food Bank | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Center for Community Advocacy | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Action Council of Monterey County Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Partners for Peace | $10,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Hospice of Ukiah Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Chronicle Season of Sharing Fund | $9,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chartwell School | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Candid | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($243k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cleo 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: Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Pebble Beach Company Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Joseph and Vera Long Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · East Bay Community Foundation · Barnet Segal Charitable Trust · The James Irvine Foundation · George and Ruth Bradford Foundation · Latino Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Cleo Foundation
- How much does Cleo Foundation give?
- Cleo Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $178,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 13 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cleo Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Youth Development (31%), Health (23%), Environment (20%).
- Who are Cleo Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Ventana Wilderness Alliance ($145k), Community Partnership for Youth ($135k), The Epicenter of Monterey ($91k).
- Does Cleo Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cleo Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Cleo Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nancy Buck Ransom Foundation, Monterey Peninsula Foundation, Pebble Beach Company Foundation.
- Where is Cleo Foundation based?
- Cleo Foundation is based in CA.
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