California · Private foundation
Gordon Rausser 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.
- $413k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 10
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $402,779
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 60% of the organizations Gordon Rausser Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 1% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $261k 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 | 8 | $413k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 10 | $264k | 60% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $332k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $385k | 14% |
| FY2021 | 29 | $185k | 72% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $106k | 61% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $176k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $4k | 75% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| A2z Exploration | $257,628 | 1 | 52% |
| Cornell University | $104,268 | 2 | 0% |
| Cato Institute | $30,250 | 3 | 0% |
| Palo Alto University Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Central European University | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Next Play Education | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Jacobs & Cushman San Diego Food Bank | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc | $7,453 | 1 | 0% |
| Cutting Ball Theater | $7,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Americans for Oxford Inc | $6,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gordon Rausser Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 45 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The San Francisco Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
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About Gordon Rausser Foundation
- How much does Gordon Rausser Foundation give?
- Gordon Rausser Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $413,479 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Gordon Rausser Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (83%), Food & Nutrition (8%), Human Services (3%).
- Who are Gordon Rausser Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: A2z Exploration ($258k), Cornell University ($104k), Cato Institute ($30k).
- Does Gordon Rausser Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gordon Rausser 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 Gordon Rausser Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Gordon Rausser Foundation based?
- Gordon Rausser Foundation is based in CA.
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