California · Private foundation
Elm Street 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.
- $1.7M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 22
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $36M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 33% of the organizations Elm Street Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 7 | $1.1M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $603k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $1.5M | 33% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $1.8M | 42% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $1.7M | 50% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $1.2M | 29% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $634k | 95% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $30k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Day School | $4,025,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Congregation Emanu-El | $891,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Common Sense Media | $500,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Exploratorium | $210,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Tipping Point Community | $210,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Big Sky Community Organization | $100,000 | 1 | 8% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $75,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Mosaic Project | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elm Street Foundation supplied at peak.
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: The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · California Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Chicago Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Impactassetsinc · McNabb Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc
How this is measured
About Elm Street Foundation
- How much does Elm Street Foundation give?
- Elm Street Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $1,710,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 22 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Elm Street Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (45%), Philanthropy (30%), Religion (9%).
- Who are Elm Street Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: San Francisco Day School ($4.0M), Congregation Emanu-El ($891k), Common Sense Media ($500k).
- Does Elm Street Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elm Street 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 Elm Street Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
- Where is Elm Street Foundation based?
- Elm Street Foundation is based in CA.
Play a game based on Elm Street’s filings →