California · Private foundation
Garen 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.
- $117k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 16
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Garen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 14 | $117k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $176k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $149k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $196k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $158k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $102k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $94k | 38% |
| FY2018 | 12 | $194k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Harvard-Westlake School | $276,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Park City Education Foundation | $212,059 | 5 | 2% |
| Bright Prospect | $179,354 | 4 | 4% |
| Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles | $164,510 | 5 | 0% |
| The Caltech Y | $100,000 | 1 | 9% |
| National Ability Center | $96,600 | 9 | 0% |
| MuseIque | $61,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Climate Science Legal Defense Fund | $37,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Nova Chamber Music Series | $20,764 | 9 | 3% |
| Claremont Graduate University | $19,675 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 39 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($62k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Garen Family 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 Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · Weingart Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Thomas H and Carolyn L Fey Family Foundation · Jeffrey & Leslie Fischer Family Fdn · Promontory Foundation · Hodgman Family Foundation · Mark C Lemons Foundation · Sad Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Garen Family Foundation
- How much does Garen Family Foundation give?
- Garen Family Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $117,255 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 16 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Garen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (58%), Arts & Culture (22%), Recreation & Sports (7%).
- Who are Garen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Harvard-Westlake School ($276k), Park City Education Foundation ($212k), Bright Prospect ($179k).
- Does Garen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Garen 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 Garen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation.
- Where is Garen Family Foundation based?
- Garen Family Foundation is based in CA.
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