California · Private foundation
James G Cummings Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $101k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 47%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $4,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $12,346
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 22
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 47% of the organizations James G Cummings Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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 | 18 | $101k | 56% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $115k | 47% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $107k | 65% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $104k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $89k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc | $65,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Mendocino Coast Childrens Fund | $51,500 | 4 | 4% |
| Noyo Center For Marine Science | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| South Coast Youth Soccer Club | $15,000 | 2 | n/a |
| University of California Berkeley Foundation | $8,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Regents Univ of California | $8,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Flockworks | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Mendocino Film Festival Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 1% |
| Mendonoma Health Alliance | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($338k), not named here.
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: Community Foundation of Mendocino County · Tarbell Family Foundation · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About James G Cummings Foundation
- How much does James G Cummings Foundation give?
- James G Cummings Foundation reported 18 grants totaling $101,346 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 22 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does James G Cummings Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (63%), Food & Nutrition (14%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are James G Cummings Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Mendocino Food and Nutrition Inc ($65k), Mendocino Coast Childrens Fund ($52k), Noyo Center For Marine Science ($20k).
- Does James G Cummings Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 47% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does James G Cummings Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as James G Cummings Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Mendocino County, Tarbell Family Foundation, Amazonsmile Foundation.
- Where is James G Cummings Foundation based?
- James G Cummings Foundation is based in CA.
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