California · Private foundation
Emmett 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.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 84
- Grants FY2024
- 96
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,581,698
- Organizations funded a year
- 67 to 96
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $289k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Emmett Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $79k 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 | 81 | $2.4M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 96 | $1.9M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 95 | $1.3M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 68 | $709k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 86 | $1.1M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 91 | $1.2M | 26% |
| FY2018 | 71 | $852k | 30% |
| FY2017 | 67 | $1.1M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cate School | $2,610,698 | 4 | 4% |
| Yale University | $584,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $400,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Tompkins Conservation | $350,000 | 7 | 2% |
| Union Rescue Mission | $333,333 | 4 | 0% |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $313,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Sustainable Conservation | $251,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Environmental Defense Center | $201,000 | 8 | 4% |
| The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc | $200,000 | 6 | 0% |
| South Fork Natural History Society | $200,000 | 8 | 3% |
Show all 137 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Emmett Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 130 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation · California Community Foundation · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Marin Community Foundation · The Osherenko-Young Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · The Marisla Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Dancing Tides Foundation Inc · The Kirby-Jones Foundation
How this is measured
About Emmett Foundation
- How much does Emmett Foundation give?
- Emmett Foundation reported 84 grants totaling $2,940,768 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 67 and 96 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Emmett Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (49%), Environment (33%), Recreation & Sports (4%).
- Who are Emmett Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cate School ($2.6M), Yale University ($584k), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($400k).
- Does Emmett Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Emmett 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 Emmett Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation, California Community Foundation.
- Where is Emmett Foundation based?
- Emmett Foundation is based in CA.
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