California · Private foundation
Equinix 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.
- $3.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 171
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,343
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 27
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $70M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Equinix Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 23% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 33 | $2.5M | 36% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $2.3M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.3M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
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, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fisk University | $750,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Generation You Employed Inc | $207,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Ffwd | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Streetcode Academy | $125,000 | 3 | 3% |
| World Pulse Voices | $116,666 | 2 | 7% |
| Loudoun Education Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 2% |
| DTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| BigHope | $100,000 | 3 | 54% |
| Labstart Innovations Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fisk University | $750,000 | 3 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $300,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Generation You Employed Inc | $207,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Ffwd | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Streetcode Academy | $125,000 | 3 | 3% |
| World Pulse Voices | $116,666 | 2 | 7% |
| Loudoun Education Foundation Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 2% |
| DTWO LTD DBA Awana Digital | $100,000 | 2 | 3% |
| BigHope | $100,000 | 3 | 54% |
| Labstart Innovations Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Ferguson Charitable Foundation | $79,500 | 3 | 2% |
| San Mateo County Community Colleges Foundation | $55,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The National Black Tech Ecosystem Builder Associat | $55,000 | 2 | 5% |
| The Ps43 Foundation Inc | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| 10000 Degrees | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Nethope Inc | $40,000 | 2 | 1% |
| National Digital Inclusion Alliance | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bold Idea Inc | $6,250 | 1 | 1% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.6M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Equinix Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 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: Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Equinix Foundation
- How much does Equinix Foundation give?
- Equinix Foundation reported 171 grants totaling $3,394,462 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 27 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Equinix Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (60%), Education (15%), International (7%).
- Who are Equinix Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Fisk University ($750k), United States Fund for Unicef ($300k), Generation You Employed Inc ($208k).
- Does Equinix Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Equinix 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 Equinix Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Tides Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Equinix Foundation based?
- Equinix Foundation is based in CA.
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