California · Private foundation
Essential 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.
- $52k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 7
- Grants FY2024
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 67%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $39k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 67% of the organizations Essential Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 84% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 16% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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 | 6 | $37k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $70k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $114k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $53k | 75% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $112k | 30% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $131k | 81% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $33k | 78% |
| FY2017 | 7 | $10k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Through Reading | $65,496 | 6 | 1% |
| Priority Living Inc | $45,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Commission on Voluntary Service & Action | $37,738 | 3 | n/a |
| Edify | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Legacy Foundation | $20,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Rise Up Industries | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Naval Submarine League | $12,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Support the Enlisted Project Inc | $10,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Miramar National Cemetery Support Fdn | $10,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Santa Fe Christian Schools | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($282k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Essential Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · The San Diego Foundation · Midway Foundation Inc · Sempra Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · The Parker Foundation · The Cushman Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · The Intuit Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
How this is measured
About Essential Foundation
- How much does Essential Foundation give?
- Essential Foundation reported 7 grants totaling $51,550 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Essential Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (31%), Religion (19%), Public Benefit (12%).
- Who are Essential Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United Through Reading ($65k), Priority Living Inc ($45k), Commission on Voluntary Service & Action ($38k).
- Does Essential Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 67% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Essential 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 Essential Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rancho Santa Fe Foundation, Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego, The San Diego Foundation.
- Where is Essential Foundation based?
- Essential Foundation is based in CA.
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