California · Private foundation
Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family 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.
- $137k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $52,250
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 15 | $112k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $149k | 19% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $138k | 39% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $113k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $107k | 70% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $109k | 35% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $94k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $116k | 22% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Marine Mammal Center | $86,586 | 5 | 0% |
| San Francisco Symphony | $65,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Addiction Education Society Inc | $57,250 | 3 | 7% |
| San Francisco Zoological Society | $57,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Peninsula Family Service | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Special Operations - Finding Kids | $30,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Peninsula Open Space Trust | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of California | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy | $27,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Tropical Botanical Garden | $26,500 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($278k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Rupert H Johnson Jr Foundation Rupert H Johnson Jr Trustee · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Hoefer Family Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ronald P and Susan E Lynch Foundation C/O Milton Kain · The Joseph W Welch Jr Foundation · Connie and Bob Lurie Foundation Inc · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation with peer funders
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About Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation
- How much does Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation give?
- Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $137,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (20%), Animals (15%), Education (13%).
- Who are Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Marine Mammal Center ($87k), San Francisco Symphony ($65k), Addiction Education Society Inc ($57k).
- Does Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family 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 Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation based?
- Cynthia and Merrill Magowan Family Foundation is based in CA.
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