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Enersen 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.

$146k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
34
Grants FY2024
35
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$25,512
Organizations funded a year
35 to 38
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
9
Total assets, FY2024
$1.6M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Enersen Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalArts & CultureAnimalsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving34$146k12%
FY202335$121k23%
FY202238$154k16%
FY202138$129k16%
FY202035$83kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$270kHealth$125kRecreation & Sports$88kArts & Culture$51kHousing & Shelter$29kInternational$23kPhilanthropy$22kCivil Rights$22kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
NY
NV
WY
OH
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
DC

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($271k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Enersen Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew York University: $73,512 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMarin General Hospital Foundation: $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetIyrs School of Technology & Trades Inc: $33,200 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetPhillips Exeter Academy: $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSports Humanitarian Group Inc: $13,050 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Students Rising Above: $12,650 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Belvedere Cove Foundation: $11,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCenter For Wooden Boats: $11,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetThe Dawn Redwoods Charitable Trust: $9,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBonnell Cove Foundation: $9,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetCalifornia Film Institute: $8,890 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKqed Inc: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $8,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSan Francisco Food Bank: $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThat Man May See Inc DBA All May See Foundation: $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMarin Agricultural Land Trust: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Whale Museum: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetThe Arc San Francisco: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorth Bay Childrens Center Inc: $4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSentinels of Freedom Scholarship Foundation: $4,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMercy Chefs Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Spaulding Wooden Boat Center: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAmericares Foundation Inc: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Great Star Theater: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRedwood Empire Food Bank: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSonoma County Wildlife Rescue: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPasadena Conservatory of Music: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 29.

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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.

Marin Community FoundationCA29.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Winslow Family Foundation · Hobsonlucas Family Foundation · Koret Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · McNabb Foundation · The Albertsons Companies Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Enersen Foundation

How much does Enersen Foundation give?
Enersen Foundation reported 34 grants totaling $145,706 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 35 and 38 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does Enersen Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (17%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
Who are Enersen Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: New York University ($74k), Marin General Hospital Foundation ($40k), Iyrs School of Technology & Trades Inc ($33k).
Does Enersen Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Enersen 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 Enersen Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
Where is Enersen Foundation based?
Enersen Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 60 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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