How much does Hidden Leaf Foundation give?

Hidden Leaf Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $2,620,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.

What does Hidden Leaf Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (24%), Philanthropy (18%), Community Improvement (15%).

Who are Hidden Leaf Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Movement Strategy Center ($1.2M), Forward Together ($540k), Sogorea Te Land Trust ($500k).

Does Hidden Leaf Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Hidden Leaf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as Hidden Leaf Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Impactassetsinc, Rsf Social Finance Inc.

Where is Hidden Leaf Foundation based?

Hidden Leaf Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Hidden Leaf Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$2.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 45
Grants FY2024: 47
Organizations funded FY2023: 32%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $75,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $500,000
Organizations funded a year: 36 to 47; FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 10
Total assets, FY2024: $58M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 32% of the organizations Hidden Leaf Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $425k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EnvironmentCommunity ImprovementHuman ServicesCivil RightsEducationYouth DevelopmentOther

How this is measured

First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	39	$2.6M	21%
FY2023	47	$2.9M	32%
FY2022	47	$3.2M	38%
FY2021	42	$1.9M	19%
FY2020	40	$1.8M	28%
FY2019	36	$1.3M	39%
FY2018	36	$1.0M	47%
FY2017	40	$1.1M	n/a

91% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Civil Rights$4.4MPhilanthropy$3.2MCommunity Improvement$2.8MEnvironment$2.1MCrime & Legal$930kYouth Development$721kFood & Nutrition$715kPublic Benefit$710kOther$0

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
Movement Strategy Center	$1,234,000	7	2%
Forward Together	$540,000	7	2%
Sogorea Te Land Trust	$500,000	1	2%
Generative Somatics	$480,000	7	19%
Power California	$475,000	7	2%
Rockwood Leadership Institute	$470,000	8	1%
Mujeres Unidas y Activas	$430,000	8	1%
Movement Generation	$430,000	7	8%
Change Elemental	$415,000	7	4%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network	$395,000	7	1%

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All grantees of Hidden Leaf Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Movement Strategy Center	$1,234,000	7	2%
Forward Together	$540,000	7	2%
Sogorea Te Land Trust	$500,000	1	2%
Generative Somatics	$480,000	7	19%
Power California	$475,000	7	2%
Rockwood Leadership Institute	$470,000	8	1%
Mujeres Unidas y Activas	$430,000	8	1%
Movement Generation	$430,000	7	8%
Change Elemental	$415,000	7	4%
Asian Pacific Environmental Network	$395,000	7	1%
Climate Justice Alliance	$345,000	6	1%
Justice Funders	$345,000	4	5%
Youth United for Change	$315,000	5	11%
Heal Food Alliance	$315,000	5	n/a
Essie Justice Group	$315,000	5	2%
Urban Tilth	$300,000	2	2%
Florida Rising Together Inc	$295,000	5	1%
Bold Training Institute Inc	$275,000	3	2%
Native Movement	$265,000	3	2%
Ryse Inc	$255,000	4	1%
Chicago Torture Justice Center	$240,000	4	n/a
East Bay Meditation Center	$205,000	8	n/a
Powerswitch Action	$200,000	5	1%
People's Action Institute	$195,000	5	0%
Windcall Institute	$190,000	7	2%
Solidaire Network Inc	$167,500	3	1%
American Indian Youth Running Strong Inc	$160,000	3	1%
Rainforest Action Network	$155,000	5	0%
Solutions Project Inc	$150,000	4	2%
Los Angeles Alliance for a New Economy	$150,000	5	1%
The Ohio Organizing Collaborative	$140,000	4	1%
Daily Acts Organization	$140,000	5	3%
Center for Whole Communities Inc	$130,000	3	8%
Project South Inc	$105,000	3	1%
Strategic Concepts In Organizing & Policy Education	$100,000	4	1%
Stand	$75,000	2	1%
Richmond Land	$75,000	1	5%
NEO Philanthropy Inc	$70,000	1	0%
Summer Camp Opportunities Promote Education Inc	$60,000	1	7%
The Ruckus Society	$60,000	2	9%
Right to the City Alliance	$50,000	2	0%
Biomimicry for Social Innovation	$40,000	2	n/a
Florida Rising Inc	$35,000	1	1%
Alliance for a Just Society	$30,000	1	n/a
Fractured Atlas Inc	$30,000	2	0%
Working Partnerships USA	$30,000	1	1%
Transition US	$30,000	1	16%
Ashoka	$20,000	1	0%
Flourish Agenda	$20,000	1	3%
Fossil Free California	$10,000	2	2%
North Bay Organizing Project	$10,000	1	0%
The Climate Center	$10,000	2	0%
Healing Together	$5,000	1	1%
Shelterwood Collective	$5,000	1	0%
Return to Zero Hope Inc	$5,000	1	3%
National Korean American Service and Education Consortium Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute	$5,000	1	1%
Greenpeace Fund Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Common Market Philadelphia Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Makauila Inc	$5,000	1	1%
El Pueblo Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Climate Resilient Communities	$5,000	1	n/a
Get Out the Native Vote	$5,000	1	1%
Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice	$5,000	1	0%
Southwest Organizing Project	$5,000	1	0%
Back on My Feet	$2,500	1	0%
City Surf Project	$2,500	1	0%
Holistic Life Foundation Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
She Plus Plus Inc	$2,500	1	2%
Codeorg	$2,500	1	0%
Seeds of Peace Inc	$2,500	1	0%
Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc	$2,500	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 59 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.3M), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Hidden Leaf Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 65.

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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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC48.1× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tides Foundation · Common Counsel Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Movement Strategy Center · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · The Ford Foundation · The California Endowment

How this is measured

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Hidden Leaf Foundation

How much does Hidden Leaf Foundation give?: Hidden Leaf Foundation reported 45 grants totaling $2,620,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does Hidden Leaf Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Civil Rights (24%), Philanthropy (18%), Community Improvement (15%).
Who are Hidden Leaf Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Movement Strategy Center ($1.2M), Forward Together ($540k), Sogorea Te Land Trust ($500k).
Does Hidden Leaf Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Hidden Leaf Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Hidden Leaf Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, Impactassetsinc, Rsf Social Finance Inc.
Where is Hidden Leaf Foundation based?: Hidden Leaf Foundation is based in CA.