California · Private foundation
Gsf Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 144
- Grants FY2024
- 108
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 38%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,500
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $235,634
- Organizations funded a year
- 69 to 117
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 24
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations Gsf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $155k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 137 | $1.6M | 34% |
| FY2023 | 108 | $1.1M | 38% |
| FY2022 | 113 | $1.1M | 47% |
| FY2021 | 106 | $897k | 51% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $788k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 85 | $928k | 34% |
| FY2018 | 111 | $1.5M | 35% |
| FY2017 | 117 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| A Childs Voice Child Advocacy Center In | $318,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Foodlink Inc | $196,499 | 6 | 0% |
| Los Angeles Regional Food Bank | $127,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Orange County Inc | $111,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina Inc | $105,462 | 8 | 0% |
| Community of Hope Ministries | $94,965 | 2 | n/a |
| Kansas Foodbank Warehouse Inc | $93,724 | 6 | 0% |
| Rad Camp Inc | $81,700 | 8 | 3% |
| Camp Twin Lakes Inc | $78,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Food Bank of East Alabama Inc | $75,510 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 182 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 227 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Gsf Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 166 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: O L Halsell Foundation · Orange County Community Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · Farmers & Merchants Bank Foundation · Edwards Lifesciences Foundation · Argyros Family Foundation · Glen and Dorothy Stillwell Charitable Trust · Angels Baseball Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Samueli Foundation · Ueberroth Family Foundation · Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
How this is measured
About Gsf Foundation
- How much does Gsf Foundation give?
- Gsf Foundation reported 144 grants totaling $1,601,778 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 69 and 117 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Gsf Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (19%), Food & Nutrition (17%), Health (14%).
- Who are Gsf Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: A Childs Voice Child Advocacy Center In ($318k), Foodlink Inc ($196k), Los Angeles Regional Food Bank ($128k).
- Does Gsf Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gsf 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 Gsf Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include O L Halsell Foundation, Orange County Community Foundation, The Devto Support Foundation.
- Where is Gsf Foundation based?
- Gsf Foundation is based in CA.
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