California · Private foundation
Epispace 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.
- $735k
- Granted FY2022
- 13
- Grants FY2022
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 55%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
77% of Epispace Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Bank Of America Charitable Gift Fd, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 3 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Epispace Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 11 organizations, $735k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $230,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 15
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 7
- Total assets, FY2022
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 55% of the organizations Epispace Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $325k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 11 | $555k | 55% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $380k | 87% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $175k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $105k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 2 | $295k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $486k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portlight Strategies Inc | $769,434 | 7 | 85% |
| Rcs Empowers Inc | $230,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| CounterPulse | $180,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Assist International Inc | $110,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Black Music Entrepreneurship Incubator | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| RepresentUs Education Fund | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kelsey | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Brilliant Corners | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| California YIMBY Education Fund | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Portlight Strategies Inc | $769,434 | 7 | 85% |
| Rcs Empowers Inc | $230,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| CounterPulse | $180,000 | 4 | 4% |
| Assist International Inc | $110,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Black Music Entrepreneurship Incubator | $50,000 | 1 | 7% |
| RepresentUs Education Fund | $40,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Kelsey | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Brilliant Corners | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| California YIMBY Education Fund | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trust for Hidden Villa | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Access Living of Metropolitan Chicago | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Able Works | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Creativity Explored Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Decriminalize Sex Work | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Access Fund | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Common Cause Education Fund | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Bail Project Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Independent Arts & Media | $8,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Urban Habitat Program | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Internet Security Research Group | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($618k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Epispace Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Epispace Foundation?
Find your warmest path to Epispace Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Epispace Foundation
- How much does Epispace Foundation give?
- Epispace Foundation reported 13 grants totaling $735,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 15 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Epispace Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Safety & Disaster (34%), Philanthropy (31%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Epispace Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Portlight Strategies Inc ($769k), Rcs Empowers Inc ($230k), Second Harvest of Silicon Valley ($200k).
- Does Epispace Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 55% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Epispace 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 Epispace Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Epispace Foundation based?
- Epispace Foundation is based in CA.
Play a game based on Epispace’s filings →