California · Private foundation
Gaia Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 84
- Grants FY2024
- 75
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 65 to 79
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $43M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 3% of the organizations Gaia Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 74 | $1.4M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 75 | $1.9M | 3% |
| FY2022 | 78 | $1.8M | 15% |
| FY2021 | 74 | $1.9M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 79 | $1.7M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $1.7M | 18% |
| FY2018 | 65 | $1.7M | 28% |
| FY2017 | 72 | $1.8M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Promise Education Fund Inc | $1,500,000 | 7 | 32% |
| The Contemporary Jewish Museum | $1,066,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Congregation Emanu-El | $1,040,000 | 7 | n/a |
| NEO Philanthropy Inc | $441,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Free Speech for People Inc | $350,000 | 5 | 7% |
| San Francisco Ballet Association | $342,400 | 2 | 0% |
| Bionutrient Food Association Inc | $303,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Urban Adamah | $260,000 | 5 | 6% |
| Real Organic Project Inc | $255,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Voto Latino Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 3% |
Show all 120 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 45 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gaia Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 115 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: Marin Community Foundation · Sonoma County Community Foundation · McNabb Foundation · Lisa & Douglas Goldman Fund · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Clif Family Foundation · Simon Blattner Family Foundation · Tides Foundation · Patagoniaorg · The Vadasz Family Foundation
How this is measured
About Gaia Fund
- How much does Gaia Fund give?
- Gaia Fund reported 84 grants totaling $1,597,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 65 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gaia Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Public Benefit (19%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Philanthropy (14%).
- Who are Gaia Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: American Promise Education Fund Inc ($1.5M), The Contemporary Jewish Museum ($1.1M), Congregation Emanu-El ($1.0M).
- Does Gaia Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gaia Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gaia Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Marin Community Foundation, Sonoma County Community Foundation, McNabb Foundation.
- Where is Gaia Fund based?
- Gaia Fund is based in CA.
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