California · Private foundation
Drew 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.
- $5.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $200,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,432,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 21
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 27% of the organizations Drew Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $439k 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 | 16 | $5.1M | 31% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $5.4M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $5.7M | 48% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $6.4M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $2.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salem Academy and College | $5,124,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Rework Training | $3,684,290 | 3 | 95% |
| Prostate Cancer Foundation | $3,630,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $2,500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation | $1,250,000 | 2 | 10% |
| California College of the Arts | $900,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Canary Fund Dba Canary Foundation | $850,000 | 3 | 19% |
| All Stars Helping Kids Inc | $650,000 | 3 | 28% |
| Norwich University | $600,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Best Buddies International Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Drew Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 23 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Drew Foundation
- How much does Drew Foundation give?
- Drew Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $5,119,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 21 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Drew Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (31%), Employment (21%), Health (20%).
- Who are Drew Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Salem Academy and College ($5.1M), Rework Training ($3.7M), Prostate Cancer Foundation ($3.6M).
- Does Drew Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Drew 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 Drew Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Drew Foundation based?
- Drew Foundation is based in CA.
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