California · Private foundation
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
- 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.
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 | 3 | $38k | 67% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $17k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $69k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $90k | 100% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $11k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kcrw Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shark Allies | $24,440 | 2 | 13% |
| Safe Place for Youth Inc | $24,193 | 2 | 0% |
| Heal the Bay | $18,170 | 2 | 0% |
| Seen and Heard | $16,247 | 1 | 3% |
| AIM Youth Mental Health | $9,281 | 1 | 1% |
| Color the Water | $8,632 | 1 | 8% |
| Central City Neighborhood Partners | $8,499 | 1 | 0% |
| The 5 Gyres Institute | $8,420 | 1 | 1% |
| Hilinski's Hope Inc | $8,340 | 1 | 3% |
Show all 14 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kcrw Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Shark Allies | $24,440 | 2 | 13% |
| Safe Place for Youth Inc | $24,193 | 2 | 0% |
| Heal the Bay | $18,170 | 2 | 0% |
| Seen and Heard | $16,247 | 1 | 3% |
| AIM Youth Mental Health | $9,281 | 1 | 1% |
| Color the Water | $8,632 | 1 | 8% |
| Central City Neighborhood Partners | $8,499 | 1 | 0% |
| The 5 Gyres Institute | $8,420 | 1 | 1% |
| Hilinski's Hope Inc | $8,340 | 1 | 3% |
| The Surfrider Foundation | $8,016 | 1 | 0% |
| Womens Global Empowerment Fund | $6,248 | 1 | 3% |
| Westside Food Bank | $3,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $538 | 1 | 0% |
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.
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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: 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
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.
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