California · Private foundation
Holding Hands for the Earth 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.
- $47k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $8,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 22
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $803k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 20 | $47k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $21k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $38k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $30k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $50k | 7% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $41k | 27% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $11k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $3k | 33% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $27,500 | 7 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Coastside Land Trust | $22,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Foundation for AIDS Research | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Middle East Children's Alliance | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $9,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Project Open Hand | $7,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Sanchez Art Center | $6,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Raphael House of San Francisco Inc | $6,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $27,500 | 7 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $22,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Coastside Land Trust | $22,000 | 7 | 1% |
| The Foundation for AIDS Research | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Middle East Children's Alliance | $17,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $13,000 | 4 | 0% |
| San Francisco Food Bank | $9,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Project Open Hand | $7,200 | 7 | 0% |
| Sanchez Art Center | $6,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Raphael House of San Francisco Inc | $6,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $4,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Center for Food Safety | $2,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Peace Action Education Fund | $2,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Kateri Tekakwitha Fund | $2,000 | 5 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pacifica Resource Center | $900 | 2 | 0% |
| Call of the Sea | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Public Truth Media Foundation | $500 | 1 | n/a |
| Friends of the Urban Forest | $300 | 1 | 0% |
| Charlotte Maxwell Clinic | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Womens Daytime Drop-In Center | $200 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewel Heart Corporation | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| National Parks Conservation Association | $100 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 15 recipients with no EIN on record ($91k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation with peer funders
About Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation
- How much does Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation give?
- Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $47,300 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (31%), Health (26%), Environment (19%).
- Who are Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($28k), United States Association for UNHCR ($22k), Coastside Land Trust ($22k).
- Does Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Holding Hands for the Earth 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 Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Tides Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation based?
- Holding Hands for the Earth Foundation is based in CA.
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