Washington, D.C. · Private foundation
Fund II Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $323k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 43
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 78%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 49
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $92M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 78% of the organizations Fund II Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 73% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 27% 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 | 41 | $273k | 61% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $618k | 78% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $5.7M | 65% |
| FY2022 | 43 | $11M | 84% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $8.4M | 72% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $5.9M | 75% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $30M | 80% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $23M | 62% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Student Freedom Initiative Inc | $22,010,750 | 5 | 65% |
| Npower Inc | $9,270,100 | 6 | 27% |
| Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights | $6,699,969 | 2 | 32% |
| The Carnegie Hall Society Inc | $5,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sphinx Organization Inc | $3,035,000 | 3 | 40% |
| The New York Opportunity Network Inc Dba the Opportunity Network | $3,001,000 | 1 | 35% |
| Rewild | $3,000,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Southern Poverty Law Center Inc | $3,000,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation | $2,005,000 | 2 | 10% |
| Ron Brown Scholar Fund | $2,001,000 | 2 | 27% |
Show all 121 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 70 recipients with no EIN on record ($28M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fund II Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 14 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: WK Kellogg Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · New Venture Fund · Tides Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Pwc Foundation Inc · Universal Music All Together Now Foundation Inc · Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc · National Basketball Association Foundation · Groundswell Fund · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
How this is measured
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About Fund II Foundation
- How much does Fund II Foundation give?
- Fund II Foundation reported 43 grants totaling $322,883 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 49 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fund II Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (44%), Employment (22%), Arts & Culture (11%).
- Who are Fund II Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Student Freedom Initiative Inc ($22M), Npower Inc ($9.3M), Robert F Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights ($6.7M).
- Does Fund II Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 78% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fund II Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fund II Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include WK Kellogg Foundation, The Ford Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Fund II Foundation based?
- Fund II Foundation is based in DC.
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