California · Private foundation
Koshland Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $3.3M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 33%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 13 to 23
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $7.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 33% of the organizations Koshland Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 20% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $751k 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 | 13 | $3.1M | 0% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $3.8M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $3.4M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $3.5M | 27% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $4.2M | 11% |
| FY2020 | 22 | $5.1M | 32% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $5.0M | 39% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $4.5M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Leaders Inc | $3,750,000 | 6 | 4% |
| The Oakland Public Education Fund | $2,585,000 | 6 | 2% |
| New Teacher Center | $2,095,000 | 8 | 2% |
| The Oakland REACH | $1,685,000 | 5 | 10% |
| Oakland Promise | $1,600,000 | 6 | 3% |
| Unbounded Learning Inc | $1,095,625 | 4 | 4% |
| Instruction Partners | $1,087,000 | 4 | 2% |
| The Teaching Well Inc | $1,058,750 | 4 | 61% |
| Businesses United in Investing Lending & Development | $975,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Citizen Schools Inc | $950,000 | 4 | 3% |
Show all 47 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Koshland Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 47 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: Gates Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Walton Family Foundation Inc · Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Carnegie Corporation of New York · New Schools Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · Kenneth Rainin Foundation · East Bay Community Foundation · Give Forward Foundation · Silicon Schools Fund Inc
How this is measured
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About Koshland Foundation
- How much does Koshland Foundation give?
- Koshland Foundation reported 14 grants totaling $3,269,310 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 23 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Koshland Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (82%), Community Improvement (5%), Philanthropy (4%).
- Who are Koshland Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: New Leaders Inc ($3.8M), The Oakland Public Education Fund ($2.6M), New Teacher Center ($2.1M).
- Does Koshland Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 33% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Koshland 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 Koshland Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Gates Foundation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation, Walton Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Koshland Foundation based?
- Koshland Foundation is based in CA.
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