California · Private foundation
Compton Foundation Inc
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $125k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations Compton Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $658k 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 | 4 | $125k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $658k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $2.7M | 91% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $200k | 100% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $24k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $7k | 75% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $919k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Global Development Incubator Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| State Democracy Project | $100,000 | 1 | 21% |
| The Online Progressive Engagement Network Inc | $56,000 | 1 | 4% |
| National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice | $56,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Center for Independent Documentary Inc | $50,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Alliance for Youth Organizing | $36,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ascend - Leadership Through Athletics Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Movement Strategy Center | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sunrise Movement Education Fund | $11,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Central Oregon Environmental Center Inc Dba - the Environmental Center | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 23 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Compton Foundation Inc 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: Impactassetsinc · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The San Francisco Foundation · The Libra Foundation · Freedom Together Foundation · The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · New Venture Fund
How this is measured
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About Compton Foundation Inc
- How much does Compton Foundation Inc give?
- Compton Foundation Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $125,000, out of $1,536,282 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Compton Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (41%), Health (16%), Civil Rights (11%).
- Who are Compton Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: The Global Development Incubator Inc ($100k), State Democracy Project ($100k), The Online Progressive Engagement Network Inc ($56k).
- Does Compton Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Compton Foundation Inc 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 Compton Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Impactassetsinc, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Compton Foundation Inc based?
- Compton Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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