California · Private foundation
Judith McBean Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $279k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 26
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $85,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.2M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Judith McBean Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 36% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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 | 26 | $279k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 26 | $223k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $172k | 30% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $199k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $184k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $188k | 47% |
| FY2019 | 19 | $187k | 32% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $178k | 13% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Emory University | $245,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The United States Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation Inc | $175,000 | 4 | 4% |
| The Uc Davis Foundation | $150,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Panthera Corporation | $140,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pacific Legal Foundation | $90,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Navy Seal Foundation Inc | $52,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Oldfields School Inc | $49,500 | 5 | 1% |
| University of California- Davis | $35,088 | 2 | n/a |
| National Animal Interest Alliance | $16,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($712k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Judith McBean 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: Carroll Petrie Foundation · Santa Fe Community Foundation · Patagoniaorg · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Judith McBean Foundation
- How much does Judith McBean Foundation give?
- Judith McBean Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $278,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Judith McBean Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Animals (20%).
- Who are Judith McBean Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Emory University ($245k), The United States Sportsmen's Alliance Foundation Inc ($175k), The Uc Davis Foundation ($150k).
- Does Judith McBean Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Judith McBean Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Judith McBean Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Carroll Petrie Foundation, Santa Fe Community Foundation, Patagoniaorg.
- Where is Judith McBean Foundation based?
- Judith McBean Foundation is based in CA.
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