California · Private foundation
Danford Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $515,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 51 to 103
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 20% of the organizations Danford Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 | 33 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $1.1M | 20% |
| FY2023 | 76 | $1000k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 88 | $838k | 28% |
| FY2021 | 96 | $817k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 95 | $848k | 15% |
| FY2019 | 102 | $898k | 16% |
| FY2018 | 103 | $872k | 30% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hannig Environmental Research Organization Hero | $1,194,500 | 3 | 100% |
| Floating Doctors Inc | $940,000 | 9 | 13% |
| Sequoia Hospital Foundation | $374,500 | 9 | 3% |
| Guide Dogs for the Blind Inc | $360,250 | 8 | 0% |
| Redwood City Sequoia Awards Inc | $270,000 | 9 | 14% |
| California Inclusive Sailing | $196,612 | 9 | 9% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $107,500 | 2 | 0% |
| San Mateo County Historical Association | $103,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Shanti Project | $95,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Peninsula Conflict Resolution Center | $81,000 | 8 | 1% |
Show all 106 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 157 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Danford Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 89 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: Atkinson Foundation · Peter Uccelli Foundation · Sutter Bay Hospitals · Bothin Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Sand Hill Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Bohannon Foundation · Community Foundation of San Carlos · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation
How this is measured
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About Danford Foundation
- How much does Danford Foundation give?
- Danford Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $1,420,510 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 51 and 103 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Danford Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (23%), Environment (15%), International (14%).
- Who are Danford Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hannig Environmental Research Organization Hero ($1.2M), Floating Doctors Inc ($940k), Sequoia Hospital Foundation ($375k).
- Does Danford Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Danford Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Danford Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Atkinson Foundation, Peter Uccelli Foundation, Sutter Bay Hospitals.
- Where is Danford Foundation based?
- Danford Foundation is based in CA.
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