California · Private foundation
Gleason Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $11M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 21
- Grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,650,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 21 to 35
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $117M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Gleason Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $56k 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 | 17 | $11M | 35% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $12M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $8.1M | 8% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $16M | 31% |
| FY2021 | 28 | $3.5M | 7% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $7.2M | 13% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $4.4M | 26% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $3.8M | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| National School Choice Awareness Foundation Inc | $36,481,080 | 4 | 94% |
| Institute for Justice | $3,900,000 | 8 | 1% |
| EdChoice Inc | $3,200,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Relay Graduate School of Education | $2,500,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Choice Media | $1,425,000 | 5 | 85% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $953,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $875,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Pacific Research Institute For Public Policy | $870,000 | 6 | 3% |
| The Reason Foundation | $750,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Manhattan Institute for Policy Research Inc | $675,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gleason Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 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: Walton Family Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Gleason Family Foundation
- How much does Gleason Family Foundation give?
- Gleason Family Foundation reported 21 grants totaling $10,713,030 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 35 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Gleason Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Crime & Legal (9%), Public Benefit (5%).
- Who are Gleason Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: National School Choice Awareness Foundation Inc ($36M), Institute for Justice ($3.9M), EdChoice Inc ($3.2M).
- Does Gleason Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gleason Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gleason Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Walton Family Foundation Inc, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc.
- Where is Gleason Family Foundation based?
- Gleason Family Foundation is based in CA.
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