California · Private foundation
Craig Newmark Foundation
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.
- $4.7M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 73
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $139M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Craig Newmark Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 79% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10M 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 | 6 | $4.8M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $13M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $43M | 29% |
| FY2022 | 73 | $41M | 70% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $25M | 57% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $23M | 90% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $9.2M | 67% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $27M | 70% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc | $23,200,000 | 5 | 47% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $16,154,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Common Sense Media | $11,000,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Global Cyber Alliance Inc | $10,500,000 | 3 | 50% |
| Blue Star Families Inc | $8,800,000 | 3 | 23% |
| The Markup News Inc | $7,500,000 | 3 | 58% |
| Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America Inc | $6,025,000 | 6 | 63% |
| Consumer Reports Inc | $6,000,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Civic Hall Labs Inc | $5,500,000 | 2 | 82% |
| The Leadership Conference Education Fund Inc | $5,000,000 | 1 | 19% |
Show all 139 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($35M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Craig Newmark Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Foundation to Promote Open Society · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · The Ford Foundation · New Venture Fund · John S and James L Knight Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Democracy Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · Omidyar Network Fund Inc · Gates Foundation · Luminate Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Craig Newmark Foundation
- How much does Craig Newmark Foundation give?
- Craig Newmark Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $4,650,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 73 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Craig Newmark Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (24%), Human Services (20%), Education (13%).
- Who are Craig Newmark Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Bob Woodruff Family Foundation Inc ($23M), The Aspen Institute Inc ($16M), Common Sense Media ($11M).
- Does Craig Newmark Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Craig Newmark Foundation 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 Craig Newmark Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Foundation to Promote Open Society, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation.
- Where is Craig Newmark Foundation based?
- Craig Newmark Foundation is based in CA.
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