California · Private foundation
Farallon 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.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 157
- Grants FY2025
- 157
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $367,013
- Organizations funded a year
- 133 to 161
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 21
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 31% of the organizations Farallon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 155 | $903k | 17% |
| FY2024 | 157 | $547k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 133 | $555k | 26% |
| FY2022 | 139 | $578k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 137 | $511k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 161 | $456k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seattle Children's Hospital | $341,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Arboretum Foundation | $255,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Medical Teams International | $240,229 | 5 | 0% |
| Recovery Beyond Paradigm | $220,820 | 5 | 7% |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Northern Light School | $86,700 | 6 | 1% |
| Acres of Diamonds | $75,750 | 6 | 1% |
| Yosemite Foundation | $51,163 | 2 | 0% |
| Kenyon College | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 211 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 160 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Farallon 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: Seattle Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · McKinstry Charitable Foundation · Puget Sound Energy Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Farallon Foundation
- How much does Farallon Foundation give?
- Farallon Foundation reported 157 grants totaling $1,270,528 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 133 and 161 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Farallon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Environment (14%), Education (12%).
- Who are Farallon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Seattle Children's Hospital ($341k), Arboretum Foundation ($255k), Medical Teams International ($240k).
- Does Farallon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Farallon 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 Farallon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Seattle Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Farallon Foundation based?
- Farallon Foundation is based in CA.
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