California · Private foundation
Dandelion Seed 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.
- $74k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2025
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 25 to 42
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 14
- 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, 17% of the organizations Dandelion Seed Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% 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 | 39 | $74k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $74k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $71k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 36 | $65k | 36% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $65k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $62k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $47k | 39% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $35k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads Publications | $92,945 | 8 | 7% |
| Focus on the Family | $26,000 | 8 | n/a |
| A Kernel of Wheat Christian Ministries | $23,050 | 8 | 6% |
| Siloam Center | $12,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Tucklets | $9,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Village Gospel Mission | $7,300 | 4 | 0% |
| Horizons International | $6,050 | 4 | 0% |
| Insight for Living | $5,500 | 7 | 0% |
| International Students Inc | $5,012 | 6 | n/a |
| Voice of the Martyrs Inc | $5,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 64 recipients with no EIN on record ($261k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dandelion Seed 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: Nehemiah International Service Incorporation Nis · San Yi & Helen Tseng Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Servant Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn Inc · Raymond James Charitable Endowment Fund · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Dandelion Seed Foundation
- How much does Dandelion Seed Foundation give?
- Dandelion Seed Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $73,940 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 25 and 42 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Dandelion Seed Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (46%), Human Services (12%), International (7%).
- Who are Dandelion Seed Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Crossroads Publications ($93k), Focus on the Family ($26k), A Kernel of Wheat Christian Ministries ($23k).
- Does Dandelion Seed Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dandelion Seed 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 Dandelion Seed Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Nehemiah International Service Incorporation Nis, San Yi & Helen Tseng Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Dandelion Seed Foundation based?
- Dandelion Seed Foundation is based in CA.
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