California · Private foundation
Guess Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $610k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2024
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 37%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $65,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 30
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $106k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 37% of the organizations Guess Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $303k 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 | 26 | $610k | 31% |
| FY2023 | 30 | $943k | 37% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $460k | 40% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $576k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $1.3M | 72% |
| FY2019 | 17 | $268k | 47% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $445k | 67% |
| FY2017 | 22 | $709k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Direct Relief | $800,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Fidm Scholarship Foundation Inc | $304,862 | 7 | 20% |
| Peace Over Violence | $300,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Crenshaw Subway Coalition | $287,930 | 4 | 54% |
| Friends of United Hatzalah Inc | $276,000 | 2 | 0% |
| World Stage Performance Gallery | $221,236 | 3 | 42% |
| Rx Art Inc | $175,000 | 3 | 6% |
| Children's Diabetes Foundation | $125,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Pushing for Pink | $125,000 | 4 | 56% |
| The Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation | $116,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 69 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($630k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Guess Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 66 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: California Community Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · The Maurice Marciano Family Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Weingart Foundation · Paul Marciano Foundation · Chuck Lorre Family Foundation · Johnny Carson Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · The Annenberg Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Los Angeles
How this is measured
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About Guess Foundation
- How much does Guess Foundation give?
- Guess Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $610,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 30 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Guess Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (22%), International (17%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Guess Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Direct Relief ($800k), Fidm Scholarship Foundation Inc ($305k), Peace Over Violence ($300k).
- Does Guess Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 37% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Guess Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Guess Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include California Community Foundation, The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, The Maurice Marciano Family Foundation.
- Where is Guess Foundation based?
- Guess Foundation is based in CA.
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