California · Public charity
Formative Foundation
The foundation's mission is to provide funding, connections and guidance in support of transformative learning experiences in steam (science, technology, engineering, art and math) for people of all ages to develop the critical thinkers and creative problem solvers needed to meet the challenges of tomorrow.
- $499k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $498,923
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $498,923
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 1
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Formative Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
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 | 1 | $499k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $357k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $401k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 1 | $144k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 1 | $3.7M | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $152k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $596k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $257k | 0% |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Arts & Culture$3.5MEducation$2.7M
Top grantees
Largest grants in FY2025.
| SANTA BARBARA SCHOOL DISTRICT | $498,923 |
About Formative Foundation
- How much does Formative Foundation give?
- Formative Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $498,923 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 1 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Formative Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (56%), Education (44%).
- Does Formative Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Where is Formative Foundation based?
- Formative Foundation is based in CA.
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The endowment market
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The camps
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By state
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