California · Private foundation
Cremona 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.
- $666k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 11
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Cremona Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $126k 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 | $516k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $456k | 27% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $225k | 71% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $210k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $116k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 2 | $665k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $435k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamusa Nonprofit Corporation | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Children's Orchestra Society Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Concert Truck Performing Arts Inc | $80,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Lets Win Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Harmony Program Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Mid Atlantic Arts Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Sarah McLachlan School of Music Society Inc | $13,000 | 2 | 3% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Lamusa Nonprofit Corporation | $300,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of Minnesota Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Children's Orchestra Society Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 7% |
| Concert Truck Performing Arts Inc | $80,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Lets Win Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | 3% |
| The Harmony Program Inc | $50,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Mid Atlantic Arts Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of Sarah McLachlan School of Music Society Inc | $13,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Fractured Atlas Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Windward School | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cremona 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Cremona Foundation
- How much does Cremona Foundation give?
- Cremona Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $666,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 11 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Cremona Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (52%), Health (19%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Cremona Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Lamusa Nonprofit Corporation ($300k), Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai ($200k), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($200k).
- Does Cremona Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cremona 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 Cremona Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Cremona Foundation based?
- Cremona Foundation is based in CA.
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