· Private foundation
Esb Charitable 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
- $250k+20 grants · $20M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAURAL FOUNDATION | $4,000,000 |
| RILEY & SUSAN BECHTEL FOUNDATION | $4,000,000 |
| RAMSAY FAMILY FOUNDATION | $4,000,000 |
| SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION | $4,000,000 |
| ACR FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ROUGH-J-RANCH FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| CREEKSIDE FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| SAMANTHA & DARREN BECHTEL FAMILY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| AED FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| ETC FAMILY FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THE BPB AND HBB FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| BHB FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| BSB FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| THIRD HORIZON FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| MBD & JFD FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–20, $20.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 10% of Esb Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 67% of the giving stays in CA; by stated purpose, 65%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +51% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.
243 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2024, 222 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WFWATER FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2022 · $21M · revenue +7% · 55% of their budget
National Council of YMCAs of the USA3× · 2017–2019 · $17M · revenue +51%- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA3× · 2017–2019 · $16M · revenue +62%
Funded once
- PCPARKS CALIFORNIAone grant, 2020 · $4.0M · revenue -38% · 45% of their budget
MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2.5M · revenue +105%- N4NATIONAL 4-H COUNCILone grant, 2017 · $1.4M
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization provides professional investment management services for endowed gifts and financial assets entrusted to the ucsf foundation.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
The Sacramento Region Community Foundation leads, serves, and inspires enduring philanthropy for a just and vibrant Sacramento region.
To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.
The association serves its members by creating resources that enable california school administrators to develop and apply creative leadership and management skills and in turn, improve the educational process for all students.
California ocean science trust (ost) is a non-profit organization dedicated to accelerating progress towards a healthy and productive ocean future for california. created by state legislation, ost bridges the gap between cutting-edge…
The AIA California, in collaboration with local components, is the voice of the architectural profession.
The uc santa barbara foundation actively works to further the goals of the university of california, santa barbara. the foundation seeks to maintain and nurture the university's quality and distinction. on behalf of the campus, the…
The american civil liberties union of northern california (aclu nc union) defends and advances the principles of freedom, equality and justice contained in the united states constitution. aclu nc union, a california mutual benefit…
The foundation's mission is to improve the oral health of all californians by supporting the dental profession and its efforts to meet community needs.
To support educational, research and public functions and programs of the riverside campus of the university of california.
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
How this is measured
457 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 457 of the 531 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds WATER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds National Council of YMCAs of the USA ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC POLICY INSTITUTE OF CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds GOLDEN GATE NATIONAL PARKS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds LAURAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHENANDOAH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RAMSAY FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RILEY & SUSAN BECHTEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Learning Policy Institute ↗
- Who funds PLAYWORKS EDUCATION ENERGIZED ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS ↗
- Who funds The Thacher School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOOTHILLS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CORO NORTHERN CALIFORNIA INC ↗
- Who funds OUTWARD BOUND INC ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Californians Dedicated to Education Foundation ↗
- Who funds PARKS CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds NATUREBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds POINT REYES BIRD OBSERVATORY ↗
- Who funds Sustainable Conservation ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR LOS ANGELES SCHOOLS ↗
- Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters Of America ↗
- Who funds National 4-H Council ↗
- Who funds THE STUDENT CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN NOW ↗
- Who funds MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE UC DAVIS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE HEAD ROYCE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
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 William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · The California Endowment · The California Wellness Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Elbridge Stuart Foundation Dba Stuart Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Esb Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Esb Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 35% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of America: 21% of income from government
- American Academy of Arts & Sciences: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Campus Compact: 1% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc: 0% of income from government
- Oregon Shakespeare Festival Association Inc: 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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