California · Private foundation
Cs Fund
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.
- $6.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 129
- Grants FY2025
- 77
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 42%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,085,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 77
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 17
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 42% of the organizations Cs Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $742k 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 | 91 | $4.6M | 34% |
| FY2024 | 77 | $3.8M | 42% |
| FY2023 | 55 | $2.9M | 47% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $1.5M | 53% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $1.3M | 22% |
| FY2020 | 35 | $1.1M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $584k | 81% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $500 | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Friends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration | $1,591,500 | 5 | 47% |
| Center for International Environmental Law Inc | $665,000 | 6 | 4% |
| Center for Constitutional Rights | $615,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Center for the study of the Americas | $605,100 | 5 | 50% |
| Partnershipforciviljusticefund | $545,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Public Citizen Foundation Inc | $455,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Project on Government Oversight Inc | $440,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Ecology Action of the Midpeninsula | $440,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Indigenous Environmental Network | $417,000 | 3 | 4% |
| American Economic Liberties Project | $400,000 | 4 | 4% |
Show all 134 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($544k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cs Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 113 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: Warsh-Mott Legacy · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Marin Community Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · Impactassetsinc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
How this is measured
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How do I get to Cs Fund?
Find your warmest path to Cs Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Cs Fund
- How much does Cs Fund give?
- Cs Fund reported 129 grants totaling $6,540,120 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 77 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Cs Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (31%), Environment (21%), Civil Rights (14%).
- Who are Cs Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Friends of Action Group on Erosion Technology and Concentration ($1.6M), Center for International Environmental Law Inc ($665k), Center for Constitutional Rights ($615k).
- Does Cs Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 42% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cs Fund 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 Cs Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Warsh-Mott Legacy, The Schmidt Family Foundation, Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cs Fund based?
- Cs Fund is based in CA.
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