How much does Intuitive Foundation give?

Intuitive Foundation reported 104 grants totaling $12,598,625 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 87 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Intuitive Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (47%), Philanthropy (22%), Education (11%).

Who are Intuitive Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Bright Funds Foundation ($3.1M), Johns Hopkins University ($1.3M), The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships ($1.0M).

Does Intuitive Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Intuitive Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Intuitive Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Bright Funds Foundation, Kla Foundation.

Where is Intuitive Foundation based?

Intuitive Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Intuitive Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$13M
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 104
Grants FY2024: 63
Organizations funded FY2023: 56%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $52,034
Largest grant, FY2024: $2,823,734
Organizations funded a year: 4 to 87; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 22
Total assets, FY2024: $123M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 56% of the organizations Intuitive Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 61% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationInternationalScience & TechArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther

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	85	$9.6M	54%
FY2023	63	$6.5M	56%
FY2022	83	$7.1M	71%
FY2021	87	$10M	78%
FY2020	44	$4.9M	93%
FY2019	4	$797k	n/a

99% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$22MPhilanthropy$10MEducation$5.2MYouth Development$1.7MEmployment$1.6MScience & Tech$1.6MInternational$1.5MRecreation & Sports$1.0MOther$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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Bright Funds Foundation	$3,097,046	3	2%
Johns Hopkins University	$1,270,000	5	0%
The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships	$1,036,500	2	21%
Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons	$700,000	1	15%
Operation Smile Inc	$698,400	2	1%
Emory University	$511,740	3	n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	$434,983	4	0%
Health Career Collaborative Inc	$400,000	4	95%
Bloomer Lakeview Inc	$351,355	4	n/a
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc	$343,091	2	0%

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All grantees of Intuitive Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
Bright Funds Foundation	$3,097,046	3	2%
Johns Hopkins University	$1,270,000	5	0%
The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships	$1,036,500	2	21%
Pan-African Academy of Christian Surgeons	$700,000	1	15%
Operation Smile Inc	$698,400	2	1%
Emory University	$511,740	3	n/a
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	$434,983	4	0%
Health Career Collaborative Inc	$400,000	4	95%
Bloomer Lakeview Inc	$351,355	4	n/a
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc	$343,091	2	0%
Atrium Health Inc	$330,387	3	n/a
Sunnyvale Community Services	$220,000	3	1%
Enterprise Foundation	$200,000	1	19%
Indiana University School of Medicine	$200,000	1	n/a
Research Foundation of the American Society of Colon and Rectal Surgeons	$180,000	1	68%
Lahey Clinic Inc	$155,500	1	0%
University of Chicago	$150,000	1	0%
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation	$150,000	1	0%
Project Invent	$138,500	3	8%
University of Utah	$125,871	1	n/a
Technovation	$125,000	3	2%
Duke University	$125,000	1	0%
Henry Ford Health System	$125,000	1	0%
Atrium Health Foundation	$110,129	1	0%
The University of Tennessee Foundation Inc	$104,797	1	0%
Khan Academy Inc	$100,000	1	0%
Comp-U-Dopt Inc	$100,000	1	1%
Society of Laparoscopic and Robotic Surgeons	$77,000	1	12%
University of California San Francisco	$75,000	1	n/a
Mass General Brigham Incorporated	$75,000	2	n/a
Indiana University Health Care Associates Inc	$72,500	1	0%
Aats Foundation	$60,000	2	2%
American College of Surgeons	$60,000	2	0%
Northwestern University	$60,000	1	0%
Association of Women Surgeons	$59,500	2	5%
Long Beach Education Foundation	$52,530	1	3%
City of Refuge	$50,000	1	0%
The Tech Interactive	$50,000	2	0%
The Asia Foundation	$50,000	3	0%
Elevate Tutoring Inc	$42,652	1	6%
Reach Foundation	$42,500	1	11%
Seneca Family of Agencies	$41,763	1	0%
Partnership for Youth	$33,000	1	2%
Children's Medical Center Foundation	$32,723	1	0%
Side By Side	$30,000	1	0%
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai	$27,900	1	0%
Community Learning Network	$25,000	1	5%
Valley Health Foundation (Vhf)	$25,000	1	0%
City of Dreams	$25,000	1	4%
Common Roots Farm	$25,000	1	5%
Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula	$20,000	1	0%
Greene Scholars	$20,000	1	4%
Shorecrest Preparatory School Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Butler Academy	$15,000	1	n/a
Science From Scientists Inc	$13,536	1	1%
The Research Foundation for The State University of New York	$11,800	1	0%
The Breathing Room Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	1%
Assistance League of San Jose	$7,500	1	3%
PTA California Congress of Parents Teachers and Students Inc	$7,100	1	7%
Art in Action	$5,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 193 recipients with no EIN on record ($26M), not named here.

Intuitive Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

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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 52.

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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.

Silicon Valley Community FoundationCA20× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Kla Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Ross Stores Foundation · Kaiser Foundation Hospitals · McNabb Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc

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 Intuitive Foundation

How much does Intuitive Foundation give?: Intuitive Foundation reported 104 grants totaling $12,598,625 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 87 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Intuitive Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (47%), Philanthropy (22%), Education (11%).
Who are Intuitive Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Bright Funds Foundation ($3.1M), Johns Hopkins University ($1.3M), The Foundation for Surgical Fellowships ($1.0M).
Does Intuitive Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 56% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Intuitive Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Intuitive Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Bright Funds Foundation, Kla Foundation.
Where is Intuitive Foundation based?: Intuitive Foundation is based in CA.