California · Public charity
Impact Giving
Provide grants to other exempt organizations based upon an analysis of applications. Grants are awarded for programs that make a high impact by transforming lives.
- $201k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 80%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $166k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $30,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $40,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $241k
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 80% of the organizations Impact Giving funded were first-time grantees, receiving 70% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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 | 6 | $166k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 5 | $135k | 80% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $169k | 86% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $115k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $120k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $120k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 6 | $130k | 83% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $130k | 83% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brackens Kitchen Inc | $155,750 | 6 | 3% |
| Wiseplace | $81,100 | 3 | 3% |
| Solutions for Urban Agriculture | $65,150 | 2 | 29% |
| Concern America | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates | $55,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Dragon Kim Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocate of Orange County | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Orangewood Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Finders Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Orphan Care | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brackens Kitchen Inc | $155,750 | 6 | 3% |
| Wiseplace | $81,100 | 3 | 3% |
| Solutions for Urban Agriculture | $65,150 | 2 | 29% |
| Concern America | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocates | $55,000 | 3 | 3% |
| The Dragon Kim Foundation | $35,000 | 2 | 5% |
| Court Appointed Special Advocate of Orange County | $30,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Orangewood Foundation | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Food Finders Inc | $30,000 | 1 | n/a |
| International Orphan Care | $30,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Families Forward | $29,300 | 1 | 1% |
| Surf and Turf Therapy | $27,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Warrior Foundation Freedom Station | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Giving Children Hope | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Pathways to Independence | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| StandUp for Kids | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The Samburu Project Inc | $24,400 | 1 | 4% |
| Lotus Outreach | $22,000 | 1 | 5% |
| Willow International Everfree | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Taller San Jose Hope Builders | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Directions for Women Foundation | $18,140 | 1 | 6% |
| Save Our Youth Soy | $15,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Elderhelp of San Diego | $15,000 | 1 | 1% |
| With My Own Two Hands Foundation | $14,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($353k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Impact Giving supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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: Orange County Community Foundation · Samueli Foundation · The William Gillespie Foundation · Oneoc · Sisters of St Joseph Healthcare Foundation · Enterprise Holdings Foundation · Affordable Housing Access Inc · The Larry and Helen Hoag Foundation · The Devto Support Foundation · O L Halsell Foundation · Sempra Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Impact Giving
- How much does Impact Giving give?
- Impact Giving reported 6 itemized grants totaling $165,640, out of $201,060 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Impact Giving fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (20%), International (13%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Impact Giving's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Brackens Kitchen Inc ($156k), Wiseplace ($81k), Solutions for Urban Agriculture ($65k).
- Does Impact Giving fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 80% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Impact Giving?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Orange County Community Foundation, Samueli Foundation, The William Gillespie Foundation.
- Where is Impact Giving based?
- Impact Giving is based in CA.
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