California · Private foundation
Hopper-Dean 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.
- $6.8M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2024
- 56
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $501,600
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 63
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $44M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 46% of the organizations Hopper-Dean Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 39% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.3M 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 | 45 | $6.6M | 36% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $21M | 46% |
| FY2022 | 63 | $28M | 56% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $17M | 83% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $12M | 60% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $2.0M | 50% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $988k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cornell University | $6,283,781 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Texas at El Paso | $5,000,000 | 1 | n/a |
| STEM Next Opportunity Fund | $4,659,247 | 2 | 34% |
| Carnegie Mellon University | $4,000,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Howard University | $3,990,278 | 3 | 0% |
| One Earth Philanthropy | $3,544,353 | 3 | 39% |
| University of Washington Foundation | $3,333,334 | 3 | 1% |
| Georgia Institute of Technology | $3,255,000 | 2 | n/a |
| One Acre Fund | $2,997,306 | 2 | 1% |
| Pennsylvania State University | $2,864,984 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 98 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Hopper-Dean Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 9 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 88 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Impactassetsinc · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Philanthropic Ventures Foundation · The Heising-Simons Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc
How this is measured
About Hopper-Dean Foundation
- How much does Hopper-Dean Foundation give?
- Hopper-Dean Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $6,815,932 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 63 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Hopper-Dean Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (59%), Environment (12%), International (8%).
- Who are Hopper-Dean Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Cornell University ($6.3M), University of Texas at El Paso ($5.0M), STEM Next Opportunity Fund ($4.7M).
- Does Hopper-Dean Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Hopper-Dean 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 Hopper-Dean Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Tides Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Hopper-Dean Foundation based?
- Hopper-Dean Foundation is based in CA.
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