California · Private foundation
Costello Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $85k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 10
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Costello Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 | 8 | $85k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $95k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $76k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $80k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 10 | $87k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| CK-12 Foundation | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for a College Education | $83,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Americans Serving African Children Inc | $64,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Operation Bootstrap-Africa | $53,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Wells 4 Wellness Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Room to Read | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| East County Youth Symphony | $15,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Casa De Los Pobres US A | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Guadalupe Center Educational Programs Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 13 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| CK-12 Foundation | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Foundation for a College Education | $83,500 | 5 | 2% |
| Americans Serving African Children Inc | $64,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Operation Bootstrap-Africa | $53,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Wells 4 Wellness Inc | $26,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Room to Read | $19,000 | 4 | 0% |
| East County Youth Symphony | $15,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater San Diego | $11,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Casa De Los Pobres US A | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Guadalupe Center Educational Programs Inc | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Southeast Texas Food Bank Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| International Association for Child Aid | $4,000 | 1 | 1% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($25k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Costello Family 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.
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How this is measured
About Costello Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Costello Family Foundation Inc give?
- Costello Family Foundation Inc reported 8 grants totaling $85,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Costello Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), International (35%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Costello Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: CK-12 Foundation ($95k), Foundation for a College Education ($84k), Americans Serving African Children Inc ($64k).
- Does Costello Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Costello Family 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 Costello Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Network for Good.
- Where is Costello Family Foundation Inc based?
- Costello Family Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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