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Gnarwhal Community Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$38k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
3
Grants FY2025
1
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$10,720
Largest grant, FY2025
$25,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 12
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Gnarwhal Community 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; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthAnimalsYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsEnvironmentOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving3$38k67%
FY20241$17k0%
FY20234$69k50%
FY202212$90k100%
FY20212$11kn/a
89% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Animals$33kHealth$27kHousing & Shelter$24kEnvironment$24kYouth Development$16kRecreation & Sports$9kCommunity Improvement$8kInternational$6kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kcrw Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Shark Allies$24,440213%
Safe Place for Youth Inc$24,19320%
Heal the Bay$18,17020%
Seen and Heard$16,24713%
AIM Youth Mental Health$9,28111%
Color the Water$8,63218%
Central City Neighborhood Partners$8,49910%
The 5 Gyres Institute$8,42011%
Hilinski's Hope Inc$8,34013%
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All grantees of Gnarwhal Community Foundation by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Kcrw Foundation Inc$25,00010%
Shark Allies$24,440213%
Safe Place for Youth Inc$24,19320%
Heal the Bay$18,17020%
Seen and Heard$16,24713%
AIM Youth Mental Health$9,28111%
Color the Water$8,63218%
Central City Neighborhood Partners$8,49910%
The 5 Gyres Institute$8,42011%
Hilinski's Hope Inc$8,34013%
The Surfrider Foundation$8,01610%
Womens Global Empowerment Fund$6,24813%
Westside Food Bank$3,50010%
Trevor Project Inc$53810%

Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($56k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gnarwhal Community Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKcrw Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShark Allies: $24,440 over 2y, 13% of budgetSafe Place for Youth Inc: $24,193 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHeal the Bay: $18,170 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSeen and Heard: $16,247 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetAIM Youth Mental Health: $9,281 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetColor the Water: $8,632 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetCentral City Neighborhood Partners: $8,499 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe 5 Gyres Institute: $8,420 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHilinski's Hope Inc: $8,340 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetThe Surfrider Foundation: $8,016 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWomens Global Empowerment Fund: $6,248 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetWestside Food Bank: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrevor Project Inc: $538 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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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 14.

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.

Paypal Charitable Giving FundDC8.7× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Gnarwhal Community Foundation

How much does Gnarwhal Community Foundation give?
Gnarwhal Community Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $37,890 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Gnarwhal Community Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (18%), Health (14%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
Who are Gnarwhal Community Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Kcrw Foundation Inc ($25k), Shark Allies ($24k), Safe Place for Youth Inc ($24k).
Does Gnarwhal Community Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Gnarwhal Community Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Gnarwhal Community Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Paypal Charitable Giving Fund, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
Where is Gnarwhal Community Foundation based?
Gnarwhal Community Foundation is based in CA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 18 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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