California · Private foundation
Kieve Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $488k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 55
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.1M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Kieve Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 22% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90k 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 | 46 | $488k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $419k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $364k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $329k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 43 | $365k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $247k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $211k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 55 | $222k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Balooja's Foundation Inc | $210,000 | 5 | 29% |
| Every Pets Dream | $170,000 | 6 | 70% |
| San Jose Light Tower Corporation | $165,000 | 3 | 19% |
| Symphony San Jose | $165,000 | 7 | 3% |
| Dream Fetchers | $150,000 | 2 | 40% |
| Soi Dog Foundation USA | $125,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Second Harvest of Silicon Valley | $90,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Animal Place | $85,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Next Door Solutions to Domestic Violence | $79,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Rotary Club of San Jose Inc | $73,500 | 4 | 4% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 44 recipients with no EIN on record ($591k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Kieve Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 52 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation · The Brandenburg Family Foundation · The Applied Materials Foundation · Los Altos Mountain View Community Foundation · Farrington Historical Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Bright Funds Foundation · Leo M Shortino Family Foundation · The Sobrato Family Foundation · San Jose Mercury News Wish Book Fund Inc · Agilent Technologies Foundation
How this is measured
About Kieve Foundation
- How much does Kieve Foundation give?
- Kieve Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $488,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 55 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Kieve Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Animals (48%), Arts & Culture (18%), Health (9%).
- Who are Kieve Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Balooja's Foundation Inc ($210k), Every Pets Dream ($170k), San Jose Light Tower Corporation ($165k).
- Does Kieve Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kieve Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kieve Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Rotary Club of San Jose Foundation, The Brandenburg Family Foundation, The Applied Materials Foundation.
- Where is Kieve Foundation based?
- Kieve Foundation is based in CA.
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