California · Private foundation
Isness 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.
- $2k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 71%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $330
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $374k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 71% of the organizations Isness Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 71% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 29% 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 | 8 | $2k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $2k | 71% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $3k | 18% |
| FY2022 | 22 | $7k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $8k | 68% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $9k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $2k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $7k | 63% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $3,800 | 6 | 0% |
| German Shepherd Rescue of Northern California | $2,950 | 5 | 0% |
| Butte Humane Society | $2,466 | 7 | 0% |
| Resurge International | $2,050 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Northern California | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Chico Housing Action Team | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Haven Humane Society | $1,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Direct Relief | $1,330 | 3 | 0% |
| Smile Train Inc | $1,300 | 4 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $1,100 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($8k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Isness 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: North Valley Community Foundation · Texas Instruments Foundation · AbbVie Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Isness Foundation
- How much does Isness Foundation give?
- Isness Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $2,460 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Isness Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (23%), Animals (17%), Public Safety & Disaster (16%).
- Who are Isness Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($4k), German Shepherd Rescue of Northern California ($3k), Butte Humane Society ($2k).
- Does Isness Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 71% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Isness 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 Isness Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include North Valley Community Foundation, Texas Instruments Foundation, AbbVie Foundation.
- Where is Isness Foundation based?
- Isness Foundation is based in CA.
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