California · Private foundation
Danvera 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.
- $379k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 23%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $110,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 23% of the organizations Danvera Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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 | 22 | $334k | 23% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $286k | 23% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $286k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 21 | $238k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $190k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $255k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| University of San Diego | $530,035 | 6 | 0% |
| Playworks Education Energized | $348,370 | 6 | 0% |
| St Augustines School Of | $95,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Legal Services for Children Inc | $41,319 | 6 | 0% |
| Alameda County Community Food Bank | $10,371 | 6 | 0% |
| Oakland Childrens Fairyland Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Conservation Society of California | $8,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Oakland Parks and Recreation Foundation | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Catholic Relief Services | $6,845 | 6 | n/a |
| East Bay Agency for Children | $5,771 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($497k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Danvera 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 · East Bay Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Impactassetsinc · The Barrios Trust · Nia Community Foundation · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Sunlight Giving · The California Endowment · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Danvera Foundation
- How much does Danvera Foundation give?
- Danvera Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $379,487 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Danvera Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Recreation & Sports (19%), Youth Development (15%).
- Who are Danvera Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: University of San Diego ($530k), Playworks Education Energized ($348k), St Augustines School Of ($95k).
- Does Danvera Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Danvera 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 Danvera Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Danvera Foundation based?
- Danvera Foundation is based in CA.
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