California · Private foundation
Giving University
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.
- $410k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 23
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $11,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 156
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $606k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 62% of the organizations Giving University funded were first-time grantees, receiving 51% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $148k 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 | 23 | $410k | 91% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $288k | 62% |
| FY2023 | 29 | $789k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 52 | $2.1M | 54% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $1.8M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 156 | $1.8M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Live Action | $861,300 | 2 | 4% |
| Joni and Friends | $500,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Champion Ministries Inc | $424,350 | 3 | 9% |
| Project Hood Community Development Corporation | $250,000 | 1 | 2% |
| The Network Group Inc | $182,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Lifesong for Orphans Inc | $169,000 | 4 | 0% |
| For the Children | $160,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Obria Medical Clinics of Southern California Inc | $125,000 | 2 | 11% |
| One Generation Alliance Inc | $123,750 | 4 | 8% |
| Advocates for Faith and Freedom | $120,000 | 2 | 13% |
Show all 159 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 98 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Giving University supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 133 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Orange County Community Foundation · Christian Community Foundation Inc · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Servant Foundation · Inland Empire Community Foundation · Optivest Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian · In-N-Out Burgers Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Liferay Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to Giving University?
Find your warmest path to Giving University through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Giving University
- How much does Giving University give?
- Giving University reported 23 grants totaling $409,869 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 156 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Giving University fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (30%), Civil Rights (14%), International (11%).
- Who are Giving University's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Live Action ($861k), Joni and Friends ($500k), Champion Ministries Inc ($424k).
- Does Giving University fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Giving University 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 Giving University?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Christian Community Foundation Inc, Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation.
- Where is Giving University based?
- Giving University is based in CA.
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