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Excelerate Foundation Inc

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.

$409k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
17
Grants FY2025
18
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$15,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$90,000
Organizations funded a year
16 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$10M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Excelerate Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesCivil RightsArts & CultureHealthPublic Safety & DisasterEnvironmentOther
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
FY2025still arriving17$409k0%
FY202418$338k22%
FY202316$341k25%
FY202219$382k21%
FY202116$319k25%
FY202018$417k17%
FY201918$417k33%
FY201822$329k50%
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$853kHealth$410kCivil Rights$373kArts & Culture$278kHuman Services$228kPhilanthropy$216kYouth Development$206kHousing & Shelter$197kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

MT
IL
NY
CT
CA
KY
VA
DC
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 29 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($604k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Uc Davis Foundation: $816,917 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Greenwich Inc: $215,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetOpenhouse: $197,329 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetGreenwich Emergency Medical Service Inc: $175,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetWe Are Family Foundation: $170,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetThe Transgender District: $145,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetMuhammad Ali Museum and Education Center: $116,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetGive US the Floor: $100,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetThe Transportation Association of Greenwich: $85,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetGreenwich Point Conservancy Inc: $75,500 over 9y, 4.3% of budgetGlenville Volunteer Fire Co No1 Inc: $72,500 over 7y, 8.9% of budgetTuleyome: $72,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetBarbaras House Inc: $65,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetThe Everglades Foundation Inc: $60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHuckleberry Youth Programs Inc: $51,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGeorge Mason University Foundation Inc: $24,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShakespeare on the Sound Inc: $23,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetSan Francisco Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender Community Center: $22,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRising Ground Inc: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGreenwich Town Party Inc: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPrc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Color a Positive Thought Organ: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetFamily Centers Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetYankee Institute for Public Policy: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOld Greenwichriverside Community Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFunders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues: $1,250 over 2y, 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 28.

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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.

The San Francisco FoundationCA15.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · Horizons Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Network for Good

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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How do I get to Excelerate Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Excelerate Foundation Inc 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 Excelerate Foundation Inc

How much does Excelerate Foundation Inc give?
Excelerate Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $409,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Excelerate Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (26%), Health (13%), Civil Rights (12%).
Who are Excelerate Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Uc Davis Foundation ($817k), United Way of Greenwich Inc ($215k), Openhouse ($197k).
Does Excelerate Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Excelerate Foundation Inc 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 Excelerate Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Horizons Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
Where is Excelerate Foundation Inc based?
Excelerate Foundation Inc 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 50 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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