How much does Joseph Drown Foundation give?

Joseph Drown Foundation reported 98 grants totaling $5,286,600 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 139 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.

What does Joseph Drown Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (54%), Health (8%), Youth Development (8%).

Who are Joseph Drown Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: The Seed Foundation ($1.5M), California State University Northridge Foundation ($1.1M), Lulu's Place Inc ($1.0M).

Does Joseph Drown Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2025, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Joseph Drown Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

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

Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph Drown Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, Great Public Schools Now, Weingart Foundation.

Where is Joseph Drown Foundation based?

Joseph Drown Foundation is based in CA.

Foundation Dossiers

California · Private foundation

Joseph Drown Foundation

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$5.3M
Granted FY2026(still arriving): 98
Grants FY2026: 88
Organizations funded FY2025: 22%
First-time grantees FY2025

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Median grant, FY2026: $50,000
Largest grant, FY2026: $300,000
Organizations funded a year: 76 to 139; FY2019 to FY2025
States reached, FY2026: 6
Total assets, FY2026: $103M
Applications: Takes unsolicited applications; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2025, 22% of the organizations Joseph Drown Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $980k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther

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
FY2026still arriving	93	$5.2M	14%
FY2025	88	$5.2M	22%
FY2024	77	$5.0M	18%
FY2023	76	$3.1M	14%
FY2022	86	$4.4M	19%
FY2021	83	$4.4M	22%
FY2020	82	$2.8M	23%
FY2019	139	$5.0M	32%

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$20MHealth$3.0MYouth Development$2.8MHuman Services$2.7MArts & Culture$1.6MCommunity Improvement$1.4MCrime & Legal$880kRecreation & Sports$790kOther$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, FY2017 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Seed Foundation	$1,500,000	2	20%
California State University Northridge Foundation	$1,062,000	6	1%
Lulu's Place Inc	$1,000,000	2	2%
Great Public Schools Now	$880,000	5	7%
La Promise Fund	$785,000	8	1%
Common Sense Media	$650,000	8	0%
Equitas Academy Charter School	$625,000	7	0%
Innovate Public Schools	$575,000	4	10%
Kipp Socal Public Schools	$550,000	5	0%
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools	$525,000	7	0%

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All grantees of Joseph Drown Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Seed Foundation	$1,500,000	2	20%
California State University Northridge Foundation	$1,062,000	6	1%
Lulu's Place Inc	$1,000,000	2	2%
Great Public Schools Now	$880,000	5	7%
La Promise Fund	$785,000	8	1%
Common Sense Media	$650,000	8	0%
Equitas Academy Charter School	$625,000	7	0%
Innovate Public Schools	$575,000	4	10%
Kipp Socal Public Schools	$550,000	5	0%
Partnership for Los Angeles Schools	$525,000	7	0%
Step Up Tutoring	$500,000	4	8%
The Rape Foundation	$500,000	5	6%
Emerging Markets Development Corporation	$475,000	4	100%
Lift Inc	$450,000	6	1%
Citizens of the World Charter Schools Los Angeles	$450,000	7	0%
Harvard-Westlake School	$425,000	7	0%
Think Together	$405,000	5	0%
College Track	$405,000	7	0%
Community Partners	$405,000	8	0%
Edvoice Institute for Research and Education	$400,000	2	n/a
International Medical Corps	$375,000	6	0%
Proyecto Pastoral	$370,000	5	2%
Green Dot Public Schools	$370,000	5	0%
Aspire Public Schools	$360,000	7	0%
Ednovate Inc	$360,000	5	0%
Cedars-Sinai Medical Center	$355,000	4	0%
One Voice	$325,000	7	4%
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools	$325,000	4	0%
Girls Athletic Leadership School Los Angeles	$325,000	7	4%
City Year Inc	$310,000	9	0%
Greater Los Angeles Education Foundation	$300,000	3	4%
Tower Cancer Research Foundation	$300,000	3	3%
Fulfillment Fund	$300,000	8	1%
California State University Los Angeles Foundation	$295,000	5	1%
Boys & Girls Clubs of Metro Los Angeles	$295,000	6	1%
Homeboy Industries	$285,000	7	0%
Los Angeles Education Partnership	$275,000	5	2%
Center for Powerful Public Schools	$275,000	6	7%
The Posse Foundation Inc	$275,000	8	0%
New Teacher Center	$255,000	6	0%
The Library Foundation of Los Angeles	$250,000	7	1%
California Charter Schools Association	$250,000	7	0%
School on Wheels Inc	$250,000	7	2%
Southern California Grantmakers	$234,800	10	0%
Junior Achievement of Southern California Inc	$230,000	6	1%
Casa of Los Angeles	$230,000	7	1%
Inner-City Arts	$230,000	7	1%
New Village Charter School Inc	$230,000	6	2%
Bright Prospect	$225,000	7	3%
Los Angeles Regional Food Bank	$225,000	4	0%
Speak Up Foundation	$225,000	4	5%
Avalon-Carver Community Center	$220,000	3	3%
Children's Institute Inc	$215,000	7	0%
Coalition for Engaged Education	$210,000	7	7%
A Sense of Home	$210,000	8	2%
Charles R Drew University of Medicine and Science	$210,000	4	0%
Everybody Dance La	$210,000	7	3%
Campbell Hall -Episcopal-	$205,000	5	n/a
Heart of Los Angeles Youth Inc	$205,000	6	1%
The Joe Torre Safe at Home Foundation	$200,000	8	1%
The Seed School of Los Angeles County	$200,000	1	n/a
Westside Neighborhood School	$200,000	8	0%
Los Angeles Sports & Entertainment Commission	$200,000	2	0%
Teach for America Inc	$195,000	6	0%
The Jonsson Cancer Center Foundation	$195,000	6	1%
Renaissance Arts Academy	$190,000	7	0%
Para Los Ninos	$185,000	6	0%
PowerMyLearning Inc	$185,000	7	1%
Alliance for Children's Rights	$180,000	6	1%
Mount Saint Mary's University	$175,000	5	0%
Puente Learning Center	$175,000	6	1%
Advancement Through Opportunity & Knowledge Inc	$175,000	4	1%
Scripps College	$175,000	4	0%
Pueblo Nuevo Education and Development G	$165,000	5	0%
Young Eisner Scholars	$165,000	6	3%
Naturebridge	$165,000	7	0%
Los Angeles Youth Network	$165,000	6	1%
The Trustees of Princeton University	$160,000	2	0%
Parent Revolution Inc	$160,000	4	25%
Friends of GALA	$160,000	2	9%
Children Now	$160,000	5	1%
Bet Tzedek	$155,000	6	0%
Sheros Rise Inc	$155,000	4	19%
Institute for Educational Advancement	$155,000	6	1%
Alliance for College-Ready Public Schools	$150,000	2	1%
Bridge Housing Corporation	$150,000	3	0%
Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History Foundation	$150,000	4	0%
Laurel Leadership Institute	$150,000	3	5%
Sustainable Conservation	$150,000	6	1%
United Way Inc	$150,000	2	0%
Ronald McDonald House Charities of Southern California	$140,000	3	1%
Executive Service Corps of Southern California	$140,000	5	2%
PS Science	$135,000	5	6%
New Roads School	$130,000	4	0%
Springboard Collaborative	$130,000	2	n/a
A Place Called Home	$130,000	4	1%
La's Best	$130,000	4	0%
Saving Innocence Inc	$130,000	5	1%
No Limits Theater Group Inc	$125,000	5	2%
Altasea at the Port of Los Angeles	$125,000	2	2%
After-School All-Stars	$125,000	5	0%
United Friends of the Children	$125,000	3	1%
Heal the Bay	$125,000	2	2%
Magnolia Educational and Research Foundation	$125,000	3	0%
Share Our Strength	$125,000	4	0%
Vision to Learn	$115,000	5	0%
Edge Foundation	$115,000	6	3%
Children's Burn Foundation	$115,000	5	1%
Educare Foundation	$110,000	3	0%
Independent School Alliance for Minority Affairs	$110,000	5	3%
The Plus Me Project	$105,000	5	7%
Ready to Succeed	$105,000	4	6%
Collegiate Charter High School of Los Angeles	$100,000	4	1%
United States Olympic and Paralympic Foundation	$100,000	1	n/a
The Baruch College Fund	$100,000	2	0%
Ballet Hispanico of New York Inc	$100,000	4	0%
La Coalition for Excellent Public School	$100,000	2	13%
The Play Equity Fund	$100,000	1	2%
Partnership Scholars Program	$100,000	4	8%
Israel Emergency Alliance	$100,000	2	0%
Ground Education	$100,000	2	4%
Team Rubicon Inc	$100,000	1	n/a
Bright Star Schools	$100,000	2	0%
Collegespring Inc	$100,000	4	1%
Alliance College-Ready Public Schools Foundation	$100,000	1	1%
Brain Mapping Medical Research Org	$100,000	1	n/a
Portal Schools	$100,000	2	5%
St Anne's Family Services	$95,000	4	0%
National Society of Black Engineers	$95,000	4	0%
Pomona College	$90,000	3	0%
Venice Family Clinic	$90,000	3	0%
Our House Grief Support Center	$90,000	4	1%
Exceptional Children's Foundation	$90,000	7	0%
California Institute of Technology	$90,000	2	0%
826la	$85,000	3	1%
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association	$85,000	2	0%
Children's Hospital Los Angeles	$85,000	5	0%
1in6 Inc	$85,000	4	6%
National Disaster Search Dog Foundation	$85,000	3	0%
The 74 Media Inc	$85,000	4	1%
Council on Foundations Inc	$81,300	10	0%
Educating Students Together Inc	$80,000	3	2%
Blueprint	$80,000	2	n/a
Value Schools	$75,000	2	0%
The Mayor's Fund for Los Angeles	$75,000	1	0%
Educators for Excellence Inc	$75,000	2	0%
La Family Housing Corporation	$75,000	4	0%
Environmental Charter Schools	$75,000	3	0%
Park Century School	$75,000	3	0%
Girls Inc of Greater Los Angeles	$75,000	3	2%
Good City Mentors	$70,000	3	9%
The Jester & Pharley Phund	$70,000	7	6%
Loyola Marymount University	$65,000	2	0%
Better Angels Inc	$65,000	4	55%
Los Angeles Parks Foundation	$65,000	3	1%
MuseIque	$60,000	3	1%
CureCervicalCancer	$60,000	1	18%
Wayfinder Family Services	$60,000	2	0%
After-School All-Stars Los Angeles	$60,000	1	n/a
Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc	$55,000	3	0%
Everstrong Prevention	$50,000	2	3%
California Science Center Foundation	$50,000	2	0%
Nmdp Foundation	$50,000	2	0%
Griffith Observatory Foundation	$50,000	2	3%
Inner City Education Foundation	$50,000	1	0%
Helpguideorg International	$50,000	2	5%
Echo Foundation	$50,000	2	0%
Resolute Academy Inc	$50,000	2	1%
American Friends of Tel Aviv Univ	$50,000	1	0%
East Los Angeles College Foundation	$50,000	1	2%
Inner-City Filmmakers	$50,000	2	14%
Hillel at the Claremont Colleges	$50,000	2	3%
Saint Marks School Altadena Inc	$50,000	1	n/a
Friends of Expo Center	$50,000	2	6%
9 Dots Community Learning Center	$50,000	2	1%
Private School Axis	$50,000	2	5%
Vista del Mar Child and Family Services	$50,000	1	0%
Project Scientist Inc	$50,000	2	1%
Guide Dogs of the Desert	$50,000	2	1%
Friends of the Los Angeles River	$50,000	2	5%
The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles	$50,000	2	0%
Center Theatre Group of Los Angeles	$45,000	3	0%
Allies for Every Child Inc	$45,000	4	0%
Piece by Piece	$45,000	2	3%
Los Angeles Police Foundation	$42,500	3	0%
Los Angeles World Affairs Council and Town Hall	$40,000	3	2%
Greater Los Angeles Zoological Association	$40,000	2	0%
The Freedom Writers Foundation	$40,000	4	2%
Museum Associates	$40,000	2	n/a
C5 Youth Foundation of Southern California Inc	$35,000	2	1%
Los Angeles Metropolitan Debate Commission	$35,000	1	6%
Youth Policy Institute Inc	$35,000	2	0%
La Goal	$30,000	3	1%
Los Angeles Team Mentoring Inc	$30,000	3	1%
Dynastys United Youth Association	$30,000	1	5%
Alma Fuerte Public School	$30,000	2	1%
The Sola Foundation	$30,000	1	1%
Pasadena Educational Foundation	$30,000	1	n/a
Green Dot Public Schools National	$25,000	1	0%
New Leaders Inc	$25,000	1	0%
Cause Communications	$25,000	1	0%
Camino Nuevo Charter Academy	$25,000	1	0%
Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Boys & Girls Club of Pasadena	$25,000	1	n/a
The Foundation at Hearst Castle	$25,000	1	3%
Western Los Angeles County Council Inc Boy Scouts of America 51	$25,000	1	0%
United in Harmony	$25,000	1	n/a
Sherwood Forestry Service	$25,000	1	n/a
Strong After	$25,000	1	n/a
Defy Ventures Inc	$25,000	1	1%
The Narrative Method Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Jewish Family Service of Los Angeles	$25,000	1	0%
California Literary & Prologue Society	$25,000	1	4%
Inclusion Matters by Shanes Inspiration	$25,000	1	n/a
The School of Los Angeles	$25,000	1	0%
Greater Los Angeles Area Council Boy Scouts of America	$25,000	1	n/a
Sound Body Sound Mind Foundation	$25,000	1	n/a
Westchester Secondary Charter School	$25,000	1	1%
The Deborah Project Inc	$25,000	1	n/a
Outward Bound California	$25,000	1	1%
Southwestern Law School	$25,000	1	0%
Youth Science Center	$25,000	1	n/a
St Raphael School	$25,000	1	n/a
Cal State Fullerton Philanthropic Foundation	$25,000	1	0%
Holocaust Museum La	$25,000	1	1%
National Public Radio Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Atlantic Legal Foundation	$20,000	2	3%
The People Concern	$20,000	2	0%
Learning With a Difference Inc	$20,000	1	0%
Minds Matter of Los Angeles Inc	$20,000	1	5%
College of the Desert Foundation	$20,000	2	0%
Geffen Playhouse Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Monterey Jazz Festival	$15,000	3	0%
Spark Program Inc	$15,000	1	0%
Pencils of Promise Incorporated	$12,500	2	0%
Free Arts dba Free Arts for Abused Children	$10,000	1	2%
David Labkovski Project	$10,000	1	6%
Japanese American National Museum	$10,000	1	0%
Los Angeles Fire Department Foundation	$10,000	1	n/a
Petersen Automotive Museum Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
The Peacock Foundation	$10,000	2	68%
National Jewish Health	$10,000	1	0%
Prader-Willi California Foundation	$10,000	1	5%
Westside Guild of Children's Hospital	$10,000	1	4%
The Leap Foundation Inc	$10,000	1	1%
The Mr Holland's Opus Foundation	$10,000	2	0%
Philharmonic Society of Orange County	$10,000	1	0%
Connecting Cultures Mobile Museum	$10,000	1	n/a
Cancer Support Community Greater San Gabriel Valley	$10,000	1	1%
National Children's Chorus	$5,000	1	0%
The City College Fund	$5,000	1	0%
Imagination Workshop Inc	$5,000	1	n/a
Pacific Heart Lung and Blood Institute	$5,000	1	0%
Bronx Charter School for the Arts	$5,000	1	0%
Baby2baby	$5,000	1	n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 66 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.7M), not named here.

Joseph Drown Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

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 200.

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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.

The Ralph M Parsons FoundationCA117.6× affinity66 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Joseph Drown Foundation

How much does Joseph Drown Foundation give?: Joseph Drown Foundation reported 98 grants totaling $5,286,600 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 76 and 139 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
What does Joseph Drown Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2026, its largest causes are Education (54%), Health (8%), Youth Development (8%).
Who are Joseph Drown Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2017 to FY2026: The Seed Foundation ($1.5M), California State University Northridge Foundation ($1.1M), Lulu's Place Inc ($1.0M).
Does Joseph Drown Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2025, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Joseph Drown Foundation accept unsolicited applications?: Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as Joseph Drown Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ralph M Parsons Foundation, Great Public Schools Now, Weingart Foundation.
Where is Joseph Drown Foundation based?: Joseph Drown Foundation is based in CA.