California · Public charity
Inquiring Systems Inc
Implementing ethical social change through training, technical assistance, business and financial management, and fiscal sponsorship services to nonprofit organizations and socially responsible businesses.
- $697k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 81%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $420k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 21
- FY2023 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $14M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 81% of the organizations Inquiring Systems Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 78% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 24 | $420k | 71% |
| FY2024 | 21 | $317k | 81% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $229k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2025.
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, FY2023 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Integral LLC | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Forestree Collective LLC | $90,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Francisco Animal Medical Center | $73,415 | 3 | n/a |
| Subtle Energy Group LLC | $68,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vca Animal Care Center of Sonoma County | $58,571 | 3 | n/a |
| Rainwalk Rewild | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sejah Farm of the Virgin Islands | $49,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Center for Third World Organizing | $32,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vets in Vans Inc | $28,782 | 2 | 1% |
| Tierra Negra Farm | $25,280 | 2 | n/a |
Show all 44 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pacific Integral LLC | $150,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Forestree Collective LLC | $90,000 | 1 | n/a |
| San Francisco Animal Medical Center | $73,415 | 3 | n/a |
| Subtle Energy Group LLC | $68,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vca Animal Care Center of Sonoma County | $58,571 | 3 | n/a |
| Rainwalk Rewild | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Sejah Farm of the Virgin Islands | $49,200 | 2 | n/a |
| Center for Third World Organizing | $32,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Vets in Vans Inc | $28,782 | 2 | 1% |
| Tierra Negra Farm | $25,280 | 2 | n/a |
| University of South Dakota | $22,550 | 1 | n/a |
| Vca Animal Medical Center Of | $18,864 | 2 | n/a |
| Peninsula Avenue Veterinary Clinic | $16,462 | 2 | n/a |
| Mission Pet Hospital | $16,004 | 2 | n/a |
| Island Food Security Inc | $15,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Center for Rural Affairs | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| University of California Santa Barbara | $14,491 | 1 | n/a |
| Galloway Family Farm & Education Center | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Truculture LLC | $13,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Centaurus Foundation | $12,352 | 1 | n/a |
| High Hog Farm | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The San Francisco Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | $8,680 | 1 | 0% |
| Mystic Pine Farm | $8,400 | 1 | n/a |
| Fellowship for Intentional Community Inc | $8,300 | 1 | 4% |
| Ashkora Farm | $8,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Iala | $8,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Sisters of the Soil Community Farm | $8,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Wild Path Collective Incorporated | $8,300 | 1 | 79% |
| Healing Joy Ministries LLC | $8,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Pecan Milk Cooperative | $8,300 | 1 | n/a |
| Marshview Community Organic Farm | $8,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Afro Agriculture LLC | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fairport Farms | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Dream Room Designs Dba Eco Sun Farms | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Ilogic Red Collective LLC | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Pine Knot Farms | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kallaloo Farms | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Deep Roots Community Planning Solutions | $8,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fast Feast Farm | $7,200 | 1 | n/a |
| Pacific Veterinary Emergency & Specialty Hospital | $6,058 | 1 | n/a |
| Lenity Vet Specialists | $5,915 | 1 | n/a |
| Sage Veterinary Centers - Concord | $5,149 | 1 | n/a |
| Gsv Holdings LLC | $5,026 | 1 | n/a |
| Oko Sustainable Village LLC | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
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: Rural Advancement Foundation Internation · Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless · Resist Inc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Tides Center · Tides Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
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About Inquiring Systems Inc
- How much does Inquiring Systems Inc give?
- Inquiring Systems Inc reported 25 itemized grants totaling $419,651, out of $696,970 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 21 organizations a year over FY2023 to FY2024.
- What does Inquiring Systems Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2023 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (26%), Science & Tech (22%), Food & Nutrition (21%).
- Who are Inquiring Systems Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2023 to FY2025: Pacific Integral LLC ($150k), Forestree Collective LLC ($90k), San Francisco Animal Medical Center ($73k).
- Does Inquiring Systems Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 81% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Inquiring Systems Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rural Advancement Foundation Internation, Feeding Pets of the Homeless Aka Pets of the Homeless, Resist Inc.
- Where is Inquiring Systems Inc based?
- Inquiring Systems Inc is based in CA.
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