California · Private foundation
First Dollar 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.
- $575k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 39
- Grants FY2024
- 42
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 12%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 30 to 44
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.2M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 12% of the organizations First Dollar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 39 | $575k | 8% |
| FY2023 | 42 | $476k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 39 | $436k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $483k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $366k | 24% |
| FY2019 | 43 | $344k | 37% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $315k | 22% |
| FY2017 | 30 | $354k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $218,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $193,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Global Partnerships | $175,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Givedirectly Inc | $115,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Helen Keller International | $115,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Himalayan Cataract Project Inc | $115,000 | 7 | 0% |
| The Life You Can Save | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Innovations for Poverty Action a Nonprofit Corporation | $85,000 | 8 | 0% |
| New Incentives | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Seva Foundation | $77,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 41 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget First Dollar 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Life You Can Save · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Gates Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · United Way of the Bay Area · McNabb Foundation · The Intuit Foundation
How this is measured
About First Dollar Foundation
- How much does First Dollar Foundation give?
- First Dollar Foundation reported 39 grants totaling $574,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 30 and 44 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does First Dollar Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (39%), Education (10%), Health (6%).
- Who are First Dollar Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($218k), Direct Relief ($194k), Global Partnerships ($175k).
- Does First Dollar Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 12% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does First Dollar 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 First Dollar Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation.
- Where is First Dollar Foundation based?
- First Dollar Foundation is based in CA.
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