California · Private foundation
Edward F Limato 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.
- $439k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 34
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $77,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 34
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations Edward F Limato Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $116k 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 | 26 | $454k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $509k | 35% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $442k | 33% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $629k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $499k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 22 | $508k | 55% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $511k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $546k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Motion Picture and Television Fund | $503,269 | 7 | 0% |
| We Were There Inc | $247,500 | 3 | 93% |
| Juilliard School | $240,000 | 8 | 0% |
| New York University | $210,000 | 7 | 0% |
| TruthAids dba Truth Aid | $195,000 | 2 | 80% |
| Strive for College Inc | $180,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Barak Ballet Corporation | $168,286 | 5 | 31% |
| Glsen Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Fortissimo | $150,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Project Angel Food | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 34 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edward F Limato Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 48 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
About Edward F Limato Foundation
- How much does Edward F Limato Foundation give?
- Edward F Limato Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $438,753 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 34 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Edward F Limato Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (23%), Education (20%), Human Services (20%).
- Who are Edward F Limato Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Motion Picture and Television Fund ($503k), We Were There Inc ($248k), Juilliard School ($240k).
- Does Edward F Limato Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edward F Limato 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 Edward F Limato Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Edward F Limato Foundation based?
- Edward F Limato Foundation is based in CA.
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