How much does General Service Foundation give?

General Service Foundation reported 87 grants totaling $9,843,060 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 59 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.

What does General Service Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (36%), Philanthropy (32%), Community Improvement (6%).

Who are General Service Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Borealis Philanthropy ($1.1M), Groundswell Fund ($1.1M), Neighborhood Funders Group ($898k).

Does General Service Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does General Service 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 General Service Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation, NEO Philanthropy Inc.

Where is General Service Foundation based?

General Service Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

General Service 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.

$9.8M
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 87
Grants FY2025: 49
Organizations funded FY2024: 24%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $100,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $200,000
Organizations funded a year: 45 to 59; FY2019 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 15
Total assets, FY2025: $59M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 24% of the organizations General Service Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Civil RightsPhilanthropyEducationArts & CultureCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentOther

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	65	$8.4M	34%
FY2024	49	$4.1M	24%
FY2023	53	$4.1M	30%
FY2022	45	$3.1M	49%
FY2021	45	$4.1M	27%
FY2020	59	$3.4M	47%
FY2019	50	$2.6M	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Civil Rights$9.9MPhilanthropy$9.0MCommunity Improvement$1.7MPublic Benefit$1.5MEmployment$1.4MArts & Culture$1.2MEnvironment$800kHuman Services$639kOther$0

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
Borealis Philanthropy	$1,135,000	5	0%
Groundswell Fund	$1,060,000	5	1%
Neighborhood Funders Group	$897,500	6	2%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$848,500	6	0%
Solidaire Network Inc	$770,000	6	1%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$745,000	6	1%
Forward Together	$562,500	6	2%
Workers Defense Project	$518,000	4	2%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$510,000	4	0%
Mijente Support Committee	$505,000	5	8%

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All grantees of General Service Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Borealis Philanthropy	$1,135,000	5	0%
Groundswell Fund	$1,060,000	5	1%
Neighborhood Funders Group	$897,500	6	2%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$848,500	6	0%
Solidaire Network Inc	$770,000	6	1%
National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc	$745,000	6	1%
Forward Together	$562,500	6	2%
Workers Defense Project	$518,000	4	2%
Fractured Atlas Inc	$510,000	4	0%
Mijente Support Committee	$505,000	5	8%
Transgender Law Center	$500,000	4	1%
Sunrise Movement Education Fund	$500,000	4	2%
United We Dream Network Inc	$490,000	4	1%
People's Action Institute	$470,000	5	1%
Western States Center	$440,000	4	2%
National Employment Law Project	$415,000	6	1%
United for Respect Education Fund	$380,000	4	3%
Sogorea Te Land Trust	$375,000	4	1%
United for a New Economy	$365,000	4	7%
New American Leaders Inc	$337,000	5	5%
Womens March Network	$335,000	3	n/a
Southerners on New Ground Inc	$330,000	5	2%
Pregnancy Justice Inc	$330,000	3	4%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc	$328,000	4	1%
Jolt Initiative	$320,000	4	6%
Demos a Network for Ideas and Action Ltd	$310,000	4	1%
Spark Reproductive Justice Now	$270,000	2	7%
Alliance for a Just Society	$265,000	3	2%
Way to Rise	$255,000	2	0%
Powerswitch Action	$250,000	5	1%
Ms Foundation for Women Inc	$240,000	3	1%
Chinese Progressive Association	$235,000	4	1%
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition	$230,000	3	5%
Movement Generation	$225,000	3	7%
The Center for Cultural Power	$211,000	3	1%
Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante Inc	$210,000	3	5%
We Are Down Home	$200,000	1	n/a
Detention Watch Network	$200,000	1	n/a
Instituto Lab	$200,000	2	4%
American Opportunity Fund	$200,000	1	n/a
Fair Elections Center	$200,000	1	n/a
Ballot Initiative Strategy Center Inc	$200,000	1	n/a
National Lgbtq Task Force	$200,000	1	5%
Equis Institute	$200,000	1	n/a
Jobs with Justice Education Fund	$196,000	3	1%
Color of Changeorg Education Fund	$190,000	3	0%
National Day Laborer Organizing Network	$175,000	2	3%
Georgetown University	$175,000	2	0%
Los Angeles Black Worker Center	$175,000	2	4%
Rockwood Leadership Institute	$175,000	2	1%
Resilience Force	$165,000	3	1%
Bend the Arc - a Jewish Partnership for Justice	$160,000	2	2%
New Orleans Workers Ctr For Racial Justice	$155,000	2	5%
Action Center on Race & the Economy Institute	$155,000	1	3%
Colorado People's Alliance	$154,000	3	8%
Community Partners	$150,000	3	0%
Bold Training Institute Inc	$150,000	1	n/a
Allied Media Projects Inc	$140,000	2	1%
National Latina Institute for Reproductive Justice	$125,000	2	1%
Bold Futures Nm	$125,000	1	5%
Funders for Reproductive Equity	$123,060	4	6%
Caring Across Generations Inc	$120,000	2	0%
Community Catalyst Inc	$115,000	3	0%
Movement Strategy Center	$115,000	2	0%
Generative Somatics	$110,000	2	23%
Equality Federation Institute	$100,000	1	2%
Black Feminist Future Inc	$100,000	1	3%
Urge Unite for Reproductive & Gender Equity	$100,000	2	1%
Texas Freedom Network Education Fund	$100,000	1	2%
Women's Foundation of California	$100,000	2	0%
Windcall Institute	$100,000	1	7%
Action Center on Race and the Economy	$100,000	2	15%
Fair Count Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Boulder Collective	$100,000	1	n/a
National Black Worker Center Inc	$90,000	1	n/a
Third Sector New England Inc	$90,000	5	0%
Restaurant Opportunities Centers United Inc	$90,000	2	1%
Council on American-Islamic Relations Minnesota	$75,000	1	10%
9to5 National Association of Working Women Inc	$75,000	2	1%
Colorado Organization for Latina Opportunity and Reproductive Rights	$65,000	2	1%
Highlander Research & Education Center Inc	$60,000	2	0%
Common Future	$50,000	2	0%
Haven Media Inc	$50,000	1	28%
Honor the Earth	$50,000	1	1%
Northern California Grantmakers	$45,500	5	0%
Southern Birth Justice Network	$40,000	1	3%
Descendants Of The Earth	$40,000	2	13%
Calling All Crows Inc	$40,000	1	7%
Insight Center for Community Economic Development	$40,000	1	3%
English in Action	$40,000	1	2%
Voces Unidas de Las Montanas	$40,000	1	2%
National Health Law Program Inc	$35,000	1	0%
Confluence Philanthropy Inc	$34,000	4	0%
Dancers Group	$30,000	2	1%
Western Pennsylvania Fund for Choic	$30,000	1	n/a
The Praxis Project Inc	$30,000	1	0%
Funders for Lesbian and Gay Issues Inc Dba Funders for Lgbtq Issues	$27,500	4	0%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc	$25,000	2	0%
Asian AmericansPacific Islanders in Philanthropy Inc	$20,000	1	1%
Ttawaxt Birth Justice Center	$20,000	1	3%
So'Oh Shinali Sister Project	$20,000	1	11%
Asian American Curriculum Project Inc	$20,000	1	n/a
Grantmakers Concerned With Immigrants and Refugees	$15,000	1	0%
North Bay Organizing Project	$13,000	1	1%
Justice Funders	$12,000	2	0%
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy	$10,500	4	0%
Peak Grantmaking Inc	$10,000	3	0%
Ploughshares Fund Inc	$10,000	1	n/a
Faith Crusades Ministries	$10,000	1	11%
Disability Rights Education and Defense Fund Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Equal Justice Initiative	$10,000	1	0%
Arizona Center for Empowerment	$10,000	1	0%
State Democracy Project	$5,000	1	0%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Ancient Africa Enslavement and Civil War Museum	$5,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 47 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.

General Service Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 101 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 101.

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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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC76.3× affinity47 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · New Venture Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The Libra Foundation · Groundswell Fund

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About General Service Foundation

How much does General Service Foundation give?: General Service Foundation reported 87 grants totaling $9,843,060 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 45 and 59 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
What does General Service Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Civil Rights (36%), Philanthropy (32%), Community Improvement (6%).
Who are General Service Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Borealis Philanthropy ($1.1M), Groundswell Fund ($1.1M), Neighborhood Funders Group ($898k).
Does General Service Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 24% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does General Service 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 General Service Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation, NEO Philanthropy Inc.
Where is General Service Foundation based?: General Service Foundation is based in CA.