California · Private foundation
Electra 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.
- $30k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 6 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations Electra Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 44% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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 | 10 | $30k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $32k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $21k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $25k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $26k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $69k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 15 | $22k | 53% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $13k | 83% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Long Now Foundation | $34,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Revive & Restore | $30,325 | 4 | 0% |
| Point Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Island Conservation | $8,023 | 8 | 0% |
| Northern Jaguar Project | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Owl Foundation | $8,000 | 8 | 51% |
| San Francisco Estuary Institute | $7,094 | 6 | 0% |
| Point Reyes Bird Observatory | $6,070 | 6 | 0% |
| The Gubbio Project Inc | $5,067 | 4 | 1% |
| The Breakthrough Institute | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 30 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 17 recipients with no EIN on record ($103k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Electra Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 26 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: Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · The Nature Conservancy · East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · Texas Instruments Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Electra Foundation
- How much does Electra Foundation give?
- Electra Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $29,533 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 6 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Electra Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (23%), Education (19%), Animals (16%).
- Who are Electra Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Long Now Foundation ($34k), Revive & Restore ($30k), Point Foundation ($10k).
- Does Electra Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Electra 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 Electra Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Electra Foundation based?
- Electra Foundation is based in CA.
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