California · Private foundation
Dorothea Tuney 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.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 32
- Grants FY2025
- 38
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 66%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $470
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,061
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 76
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $296k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 66% of the organizations Dorothea Tuney Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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 | 31 | $24k | 77% |
| FY2024 | 38 | $30k | 66% |
| FY2023 | 71 | $46k | 72% |
| FY2022 | 76 | $91k | 96% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $113k | 88% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $105k | 44% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $125k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $104k | 36% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Media Arts Center San Diego | $395,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Perfect 33 Foundation | $28,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Cyt Sd | $16,100 | 5 | 0% |
| Gold Crown Foundation | $12,735 | 3 | 0% |
| Just in Time for Foster Youth | $11,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Mama's Kitchen | $10,800 | 3 | 0% |
| National Multiple Sclerosis Society | $10,800 | 3 | 0% |
| Ntc Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Alzheimer's Foundation of America Inc | $7,498 | 4 | 0% |
| Hawaii Ag and Culinary Alliance | $6,081 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 110 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 120 recipients with no EIN on record ($148k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dorothea Tuney 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 Diego Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Frontstream Global Fund · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · Staley Charitable Foundation · Samuel I & John Henry Fox Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · Midway Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Dorothea Tuney Foundation
- How much does Dorothea Tuney Foundation give?
- Dorothea Tuney Foundation reported 32 grants totaling $24,438 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 76 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Dorothea Tuney Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (61%), Youth Development (6%), Health (4%).
- Who are Dorothea Tuney Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Media Arts Center San Diego ($395k), Perfect 33 Foundation ($28k), Cyt Sd ($16k).
- Does Dorothea Tuney Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 66% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dorothea Tuney 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 Dorothea Tuney Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Diego Foundation, Sempra Foundation, Rancho Santa Fe Foundation.
- Where is Dorothea Tuney Foundation based?
- Dorothea Tuney Foundation is based in CA.
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