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Donald P & Katherine B Loker 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.

$329k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
25
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$600
Largest grant, FY2024
$300,000
Organizations funded a year
6 to 27
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
8
Total assets, FY2024
$6.7M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Donald P & Katherine B Loker Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23
Human ServicesHealthInternationalHousing & ShelterAnimalsArts & CultureOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving24$328k29%
FY202313$314k23%
FY202224$323k54%
FY202112$218k50%
FY202027$84k70%
FY20196$4k33%
FY201811$20kn/a
99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$1.2MPhilanthropy$84kHealth$27kEnvironment$18kAnimals$14kCivil Rights$13kReligion$12kFood & Nutrition$8kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NY
MA
CA
VA
MD
DC
AL
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 32 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Donald P & Katherine B Loker Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMonterey Bay Aquarium Foundation: $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRocketdogrescue: $12,261 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOne Purpose School Inc: $8,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMonterey Museum of Art: $5,155 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Poverty Law Center Inc: $5,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetValencia College Foundation Inc: $3,150 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPine Street Inn Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChinese Progressive Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedicines for Humanity Inc: $1,339 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,200 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommonwealth Land Trust Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Medical Center Corporation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosie's Place Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomens Cancer Resource Center: $894 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGrand Circle Foundation Inc: $700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Boston Food Bank Inc: $518 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNewton Teachers Association Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Inc: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlide Memorial Church: $400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Boston Athletic Association: $335 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited States Association for UNHCR: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProject Open Hand: $300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMetrowest Young Men's Christian Association Inc: $263 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAngel Fund Inc: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Innocence Project Inc: $106 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Book: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Marine Mammal Center: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 30.

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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.

Marin Community FoundationCA12.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Donald P & Katherine B Loker Foundation

How much does Donald P & Katherine B Loker Foundation give?
Donald P & Katherine B Loker Foundation reported 25 grants totaling $329,074 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 27 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Donald P & Katherine B Loker Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (86%), Philanthropy (6%), Health (2%).
Who are Donald P & Katherine B Loker Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation ($16k), Rocketdogrescue ($12k), One Purpose School Inc ($8k).
Does Donald P & Katherine B Loker Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Donald P & Katherine B Loker 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 Donald P & Katherine B Loker Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Jpmorgan Chase Foundation, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
Where is Donald P & Katherine B Loker Foundation based?
Donald P & Katherine B Loker Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 64 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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