California · Private foundation
Helen and Will Webster 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.
- $17M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 54
- Grants FY2024
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $3,920,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 62
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $227M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 10% of the organizations Helen and Will Webster Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $258k 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 | 53 | $16M | 8% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $13M | 10% |
| FY2022 | 62 | $11M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $14M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 47 | $11M | 38% |
| FY2019 | 35 | $11M | 34% |
| FY2018 | 33 | $10M | 30% |
| FY2017 | 31 | $12M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uc Santa Cruz Foundation | $37,770,702 | 8 | 32% |
| Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd | $11,524,826 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc | $7,533,800 | 8 | 2% |
| Uc Santa Barbara Foundation | $3,653,286 | 8 | 3% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $3,500,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rady Children's Hospital Foundation San Diego | $3,100,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Focusing Philanthropy Inc | $2,343,500 | 8 | 2% |
| Pasadena Conservatory of Music | $2,180,000 | 8 | 18% |
| Pasadena Educational Foundation | $1,875,223 | 8 | 6% |
| Azusa Pacific University | $1,840,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Helen and Will Webster Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 58 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Pasadena Community Foundation · The Ahmanson Foundation · Ann Peppers Foundation · The Ralph M Parsons Foundation · California Community Foundation · The Rose Hills Foundation · Weingart Foundation · Monterey Peninsula Foundation · Community Foundation Santa Cruz County · John Jewett & Helen Chandler Garland Fou Ndation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · Michael J Connell Foundation Michael J Connell Charities Lte
How this is measured
About Helen and Will Webster Foundation
- How much does Helen and Will Webster Foundation give?
- Helen and Will Webster Foundation reported 54 grants totaling $16,559,183 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 62 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Helen and Will Webster Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (62%), Health (22%), Arts & Culture (5%).
- Who are Helen and Will Webster Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Uc Santa Cruz Foundation ($38M), Pasadena Hospital Association Ltd ($12M), University of Oklahoma Foundation Inc ($7.5M).
- Does Helen and Will Webster Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Helen and Will Webster 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 Helen and Will Webster Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Pasadena Community Foundation, The Ahmanson Foundation, Ann Peppers Foundation.
- Where is Helen and Will Webster Foundation based?
- Helen and Will Webster Foundation is based in CA.
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