How much does Firedoll Foundation give?

Firedoll Foundation reported 113 grants totaling $2,867,039 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 91 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Firedoll Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (23%), Crime & Legal (17%), Civil Rights (10%).

Who are Firedoll Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: East Bay Community Law Center ($270k), East Bay Sanctuary Covenant ($193k), Western Environmental Law Center ($190k).

Does Firedoll Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Firedoll Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Firedoll Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.

Where is Firedoll Foundation based?

Firedoll Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Firedoll Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.9M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 113
Grants FY2025: 90
Organizations funded FY2024: 22%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $25,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $100,000
Organizations funded a year: 40 to 91; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 13
Total assets, FY2025: $8.2M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Firedoll Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $403k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EnvironmentCrime & LegalInternationalHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	110	$2.7M	15%
FY2024	90	$2.1M	22%
FY2023	72	$1.7M	14%
FY2022	46	$1.0M	24%
FY2021	40	$865k	15%
FY2020	91	$2.1M	15%
FY2019	75	$1.6M	40%
FY2018	82	$1.8M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Environment$3.4MCrime & Legal$2.5MCivil Rights$1.5MInternational$1.1MHealth$846kAnimals$802kFood & Nutrition$715kHousing & Shelter$680kOther$0

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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
East Bay Community Law Center	$270,000	6	1%
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant	$192,500	6	1%
Western Environmental Law Center	$190,000	7	1%
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center	$182,500	7	3%
As You Sow	$182,000	7	1%
Wildearth Guardians	$180,000	6	1%
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center	$180,000	6	1%
Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute	$180,000	5	0%
Center for Justice & Accountability	$178,500	6	2%
Pangea Legal Services	$175,000	6	2%

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All grantees of Firedoll Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
East Bay Community Law Center	$270,000	6	1%
East Bay Sanctuary Covenant	$192,500	6	1%
Western Environmental Law Center	$190,000	7	1%
Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Center	$182,500	7	3%
As You Sow	$182,000	7	1%
Wildearth Guardians	$180,000	6	1%
Renaissance Entrepreneurship Center	$180,000	6	1%
Simons Laufer Mathematical Sciences Institute	$180,000	5	0%
Center for Justice & Accountability	$178,500	6	2%
Pangea Legal Services	$175,000	6	2%
A Jewish Voice for Peace	$165,000	6	1%
Endangered Species Coalition	$165,000	6	3%
Global Justice Ecology Project Inc	$165,000	8	6%
Institute Justice and Democracy in Haiti Inc	$165,000	6	4%
Legal Services for Children Inc	$160,000	6	1%
Trinity Center Walnut Creek	$155,000	6	3%
Defenders of Wildlife	$150,000	5	0%
Center for Constitutional Rights	$150,000	4	0%
Marin Brain Injury Network Schurig Center for Brain Injury Recovery	$150,000	6	4%
Ploughshares Fund Inc	$150,000	5	0%
Social Justice Collaborative	$147,500	6	1%
Center for Environmental Health	$140,000	7	1%
Pesticide Action Network North America	$140,000	7	1%
Shelter Inc	$140,000	4	0%
The Marine Mammal Center	$140,000	4	0%
Praxis Peace Institute	$138,000	7	53%
Sea Turtle Conservancy	$135,000	5	1%
Center for Food Safety	$130,000	5	1%
The Institute for Middle East Understanding	$130,000	5	2%
Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility Inc	$130,000	5	2%
Monument Impact	$129,500	5	2%
Center for Biological Diversity Inc	$125,000	4	0%
Immigrant Legal Resource Center	$125,000	5	0%
Students for a Free Tibet Inc	$125,000	5	7%
Reprieve (Us)	$125,000	7	3%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc	$125,000	4	0%
Sustainable Economies Law Center	$124,000	5	1%
Taxpayers for Common Sense	$122,500	5	2%
ACCE Institute	$120,000	5	1%
American Friends of Combatants for Peace Inc	$117,500	5	3%
Eden I & R Inc	$117,000	5	1%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$115,000	5	0%
Middle East Children's Alliance	$115,000	4	1%
Prospera Community Development	$115,000	5	2%
California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice	$112,500	3	2%
Tuolumne River Preservation Trust dba Yosemite Rivers Alliance	$110,000	5	2%
American Civil Liberties Union Foundation of Northern California Inc	$110,000	4	0%
Freedom for Immigrants	$110,000	4	2%
Beyond Emancipation	$110,000	5	1%
Covenant House California	$110,000	6	0%
East Bay Childrens Law Offices Inc	$109,000	6	1%
Central Sierra Environmental Resource Center Inc	$107,500	5	15%
Beyond Pesticides	$105,000	7	2%
California Trout Inc	$100,604	5	0%
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area	$100,000	3	1%
The Alliance for Community Wellness DBA La Familia Counseling Services	$100,000	4	0%
Greenpeace Fund Inc	$100,000	4	0%
Jewish Family and Community Services East Bay	$99,500	4	0%
Food Bank of Contra Costa and Solano	$95,000	4	0%
The Bread Project	$95,000	4	4%
Oasis Legal Services	$90,000	4	2%
Greater Farallones Association	$90,000	5	1%
Immigration Institute of the Bay Area	$90,000	4	0%
Tibet Oral History Project	$89,030	7	n/a
The Tahirih Justice Center	$87,500	5	0%
Sanctuary Forest Inc	$85,000	5	2%
Alameda County Community Food Bank	$85,000	3	0%
Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa	$85,000	3	1%
Opportunity Junction Inc	$80,000	4	1%
Centro Legal de la Raza	$75,000	3	0%
Insight Housing FKA Berkeley Food and Housing Project	$72,500	3	0%
Salmon River Restoration Council	$70,000	7	1%
Kind Inc	$65,000	3	0%
Contra Costa Crisis Center	$60,000	4	1%
American Near East Refugee Aid	$60,000	2	0%
Baykeeper	$60,000	2	1%
White Pony Express	$60,000	3	0%
Planned Parenthood Shasta-Diablo Inc	$60,000	2	0%
Center for Rural Affairs	$55,000	3	0%
Rising Sun Center for Opportunity fka RISING SUN ENERGY CENTER	$55,000	3	0%
Youth for Environmental Sanity	$55,000	5	4%
Winter Nights Family Shelter Inc	$50,000	2	4%
Partnerships for Trauma Recovery	$50,000	3	1%
International Rescue Committee INC	$50,000	3	0%
Services for Brain Injury	$50,000	2	1%
Loaves and Fishes	$50,000	2	9%
Unrwa USA National Committee Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Center for Immigrant Protection	$47,500	4	1%
Multicultural Institute	$45,000	3	n/a
American Whitewater	$45,000	2	1%
Canticle Farm	$45,000	3	2%
CalWild	$43,431	2	3%
Pomeroy Recreation and Rehabilitation Center	$43,000	4	0%
Abilitypath	$40,000	2	0%
Advocates for the West Inc	$40,000	2	1%
Sustainable Conservation	$40,000	2	0%
California Ocean Science Trust	$35,000	2	1%
Water Climate Trust	$35,000	2	4%
Smith River Alliance Inc	$35,000	2	1%
California Institute for Biodiversity	$35,000	2	2%
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees	$32,500	3	0%
Earthteam	$32,500	6	1%
National Center for Lgbtq Rights Fka National Center for Lesbian Rights	$30,000	3	0%
Firefighters United for Safety Ethics and Ecology	$30,000	2	5%
In His Steps Pathways of Peace	$30,000	2	14%
Friends of the River Foundation	$30,000	1	n/a
Holy Family Hospital of Bethlehem Foundation	$30,000	1	n/a
OneJustice	$30,000	2	1%
Feather River Land Trust	$25,000	1	1%
Environmental Protection Information Center Inc	$25,000	1	7%
Icafund	$25,000	1	0%
Womens Cancer Resource Center	$25,000	1	2%
Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights	$25,000	1	21%
Start Small Think Big Inc	$25,000	1	1%
Court Appointed Special Advocates	$25,000	1	4%
Oakland Tech Exchange	$25,000	1	1%
Operation Dignity International	$25,000	2	n/a
Family Emergency Shelter Coalition	$25,000	1	2%
Rise Economy	$25,000	1	1%
The Oakland Public Education Fund	$25,000	1	0%
Bayorg	$25,000	1	0%
Center for Emerging Futures Inc	$22,000	1	13%
African Advocacy Network	$20,000	1	1%
Communities for a Better Environment	$20,000	1	1%
La Pea Cultural Center Inc	$20,000	2	1%
International Refugee Assistance Project Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Wild Earth Society Incorporated	$17,500	1	0%
Plumas Audubon Society	$16,000	1	9%
Urban Habitat Program	$15,000	1	0%
City Slicker Farms	$15,000	1	4%
East Bay Spanish Speaking Citizens Found	$15,000	1	n/a
Ufw Foundation	$15,000	1	0%
Jubilee Immigration Advocates	$15,000	1	1%
Asian Health Services	$15,000	1	0%
The Justice and Diversity Center of the Bar Association of San Francisco	$15,000	1	n/a
Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Buena Vista United Methodist Church	$12,000	2	n/a
United Palestinian Appeal Inc	$12,000	1	0%
Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity	$10,000	1	n/a
Operation Dignity Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Oakland Elizabeth House	$7,500	1	n/a
Northern California Grantmakers	$5,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.

Firedoll Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 130 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 130.

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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 FoundationCA78.4× affinity64 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The James Irvine Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · United Way of the Bay Area · The Zellerbach Family Foundation · Clif Family Foundation · Sunlight Giving · Resources Legacy Fund · The California Wellness Foundation

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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About Firedoll Foundation

How much does Firedoll Foundation give?: Firedoll Foundation reported 113 grants totaling $2,867,039 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 40 and 91 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Firedoll Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (23%), Crime & Legal (17%), Civil Rights (10%).
Who are Firedoll Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: East Bay Community Law Center ($270k), East Bay Sanctuary Covenant ($193k), Western Environmental Law Center ($190k).
Does Firedoll Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Firedoll Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Firedoll Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, East Bay Community Foundation, Marin Community Foundation.
Where is Firedoll Foundation based?: Firedoll Foundation is based in CA.