California · Private foundation
Good Ventures 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.
- $307M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 565
- Grants FY2025
- 363
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $153,881
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 33 to 363
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 22
- Total assets, FY2025
- $10.1B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Good Ventures Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $111M 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 | 420 | $280M | 51% |
| FY2024 | 363 | $336M | 54% |
| FY2023 | 344 | $300M | 58% |
| FY2022 | 244 | $324M | 65% |
| FY2021 | 120 | $154M | 63% |
| FY2020 | 81 | $129M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 56 | $96M | 64% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $38M | 73% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgetown University | $107,015,295 | 7 | 1% |
| The Against Malaria Foundation | $48,731,000 | 5 | 35% |
| The Rand Corporation | $44,500,001 | 3 | 6% |
| Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc | $39,706,095 | 6 | 41% |
| Helen Keller International | $35,404,955 | 6 | 12% |
| Gates Philanthropy Partners | $34,224,181 | 2 | n/a |
| Johns Hopkins University | $30,475,129 | 5 | 0% |
| OpenAI Foundation fka OpenAI Inc | $30,000,000 | 3 | 31% |
| Regents of the University of California at Berkeley | $29,679,126 | 9 | n/a |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $28,749,665 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 255 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 729 recipients with no EIN on record ($747M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Good Ventures Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 48 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 192 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: Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc · Founders Pledge Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Open Philanthropy Action Fund · Humane America Animal Foundation · Gates Foundation · Rethink Charity · The Clear Fund · Every Org · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tipping Point Private Foundation
How this is measured
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About Good Ventures Foundation
- How much does Good Ventures Foundation give?
- Good Ventures Foundation reported 565 grants totaling $306,706,819 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 33 and 363 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Good Ventures Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (23%), Health (19%), International (15%).
- Who are Good Ventures Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Georgetown University ($107M), The Against Malaria Foundation ($49M), The Rand Corporation ($45M).
- Does Good Ventures Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Good Ventures 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 Good Ventures Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Effective Ventures Foundation USA Inc, Founders Pledge Inc, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Good Ventures Foundation based?
- Good Ventures Foundation is based in CA.
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