California · Private foundation
John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2024
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $70,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 14
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $58M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $222k 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 | 23 | $2.7M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 14 | $1.4M | 36% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $200k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $153k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $148k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $130k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $120k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $122k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County | $1,136,700 | 8 | 9% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $855,000 | 8 | 0% |
| California Rangeland Trust | $790,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy | $281,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Ventura Land Trust | $250,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Coastal Ranches Conservancy | $196,975 | 6 | 41% |
| Los Padres Forestwatch Inc | $193,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology | $107,372 | 2 | 15% |
| Channel Islands Restoration | $80,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Santa Barbara Botanic Garden | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 21 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County | $1,136,700 | 8 | 9% |
| The Trust for Public Land | $855,000 | 8 | 0% |
| California Rangeland Trust | $790,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy | $281,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Ventura Land Trust | $250,000 | 1 | 6% |
| Coastal Ranches Conservancy | $196,975 | 6 | 41% |
| Los Padres Forestwatch Inc | $193,000 | 8 | 7% |
| Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology | $107,372 | 2 | 15% |
| Channel Islands Restoration | $80,000 | 2 | 4% |
| Santa Barbara Botanic Garden | $75,000 | 2 | 1% |
| White Buffalo Land Trust | $75,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Nature Track Foundation Inc | $57,500 | 4 | 6% |
| Gaviota Coast Conservancy | $50,000 | 1 | 9% |
| Santa Barbara Channelkeeper Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Carrizo Plain Conservancy | $43,500 | 5 | 18% |
| The Nature Conservancy of California | $25,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Wildlands Conservancy | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friends of the Santa Clara River | $25,000 | 1 | 40% |
| Wilderness Youth Project Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Turtle Conservancy | $19,243 | 1 | 1% |
| Wishtoyo Foundation Dba Wishtoyo Chumash Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($620k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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: Santa Barbara Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Emmett Foundation · The Kirby-Jones Foundation · Patagoniaorg · California Community Foundation · Raintree Foundation · The Osherenko-Young Foundation · Patricia Bragg Foundation · Fund for Santa Barbara Inc · Ann Jackson Family Foundation · Hutton Foundation Dba Hutton Parker Foundation
How this is measured
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About John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation
- How much does John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation give?
- John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $2,871,319 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 14 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (78%), Food & Nutrition (16%), Animals (2%).
- Who are John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The Land Trust for Santa Barbara County ($1.1M), The Trust for Public Land ($855k), California Rangeland Trust ($790k).
- Does John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does John S Kiewit Memorial 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 John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Santa Barbara Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, Emmett Foundation.
- Where is John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation based?
- John S Kiewit Memorial Foundation is based in CA.
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