California · Private foundation
Fontana 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.
- $5k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2021
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2021
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,115
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $5,115
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2021
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $75k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2021, 0% of the organizations Fontana Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 1 | $5k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $6k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 4 | $36k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $70k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 11 | $26k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 16 | $165k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| San Francisco Zoological Society | $107,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Marin Country Day School | $67,545 | 4 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Olaf College | $22,125 | 1 | 0% |
| Pine Crest Preparatory School Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Edgewood High School | $10,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Natural Resources Defense Council Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Battery Foundation | $5,115 | 1 | 0% |
| B612 Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Broward Partnership for the Homeless Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 27 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($12k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Fontana 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jewish Communal Fund
How this is measured
About Fontana Foundation
- How much does Fontana Foundation give?
- Fontana Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $5,115 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2021.
- What does Fontana Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (52%), Animals (35%), Health (2%).
- Who are Fontana Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: San Francisco Zoological Society ($107k), Marin Country Day School ($68k), Northwestern University ($30k).
- Does Fontana Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2021, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fontana 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 Fontana Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is Fontana Foundation based?
- Fontana Foundation is based in CA.
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