California · Private foundation
Fooksman Family 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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 38
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $216,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 34
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $19M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Fooksman Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $449k 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 | 36 | $1.5M | 42% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $942k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $858k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $1.1M | 52% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $778k | 35% |
| FY2020 | 34 | $1.1M | 68% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $428k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rimon Club Z DBA Club Z | $585,000 | 4 | 32% |
| Impact Forum Foundation | $351,000 | 2 | 12% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $300,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Arlekin Players Theatre | $285,000 | 7 | 19% |
| Areivim Philanthropic Group Inc | $280,000 | 7 | 9% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $265,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Grains of Good Foundation | $205,000 | 2 | 21% |
| Foundation for the Defense of Democracies Inc | $170,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Boundless Israel Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 4% |
| Oshman Family Jewish Community Center | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 42 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fooksman Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 50 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Koum Family Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Shimon Ben Joseph Foundation Dba Jim Joseph Foundation · Koret Foundation · United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Taube Foundation for Jewish Life and Culture · The Marcus Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · The Paul E Singer Foundation
How this is measured
About Fooksman Family Foundation
- How much does Fooksman Family Foundation give?
- Fooksman Family Foundation reported 38 grants totaling $1,584,945 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 34 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Fooksman Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (20%), Religion (16%), Philanthropy (16%).
- Who are Fooksman Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Rimon Club Z DBA Club Z ($585k), Impact Forum Foundation ($351k), United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc ($300k).
- Does Fooksman Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fooksman Family 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 Fooksman Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The Koum Family Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund.
- Where is Fooksman Family Foundation based?
- Fooksman Family Foundation is based in CA.
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