California · Private foundation
David C Copley Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $8.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 125
- Grants FY2024
- 117
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,502,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 103 to 136
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $104M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations David C Copley Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 122 | $8.2M | 12% |
| FY2023 | 117 | $5.0M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 135 | $4.1M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 121 | $5.6M | 17% |
| FY2020 | 112 | $4.7M | 23% |
| FY2019 | 103 | $5.6M | 19% |
| FY2018 | 124 | $6.9M | 28% |
| FY2017 | 136 | $5.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego | $5,172,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Tri-City Hospital Foundation | $3,624,800 | 4 | 90% |
| Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego | $3,000,000 | 3 | 9% |
| St Vincent de Paul Village Inc | $2,712,182 | 7 | 4% |
| Interfaith Community Services Inc | $1,305,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Ocean Discovery Institute | $862,309 | 8 | 15% |
| The Salvation Army | $809,300 | 7 | n/a |
| The Salk Institute for Biological Studies | $750,000 | 4 | 0% |
| YMCA of San Diego County | $748,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities of San Diego Inc | $691,000 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 265 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.9M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
David C Copley Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 Conrad Prebys Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Pratt Memorial Fund · Sempra Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation
How this is measured
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About David C Copley Foundation
- How much does David C Copley Foundation give?
- David C Copley Foundation reported 125 grants totaling $8,268,008 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 103 and 136 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does David C Copley Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (29%), Human Services (20%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are David C Copley Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego ($5.2M), Tri-City Hospital Foundation ($3.6M), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego ($3.0M).
- Does David C Copley Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David C Copley 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 David C Copley Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Conrad Prebys Foundation, Price Philanthropies Foundation, The San Diego Foundation.
- Where is David C Copley Foundation based?
- David C Copley Foundation is based in CA.
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