California · Private foundation
Laural 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.
- $19M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 84
- Grants FY2024
- 41
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 20%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 41
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 10
- Total assets, FY2024
- $83M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 20% of the organizations Laural Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 | 47 | $15M | 21% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $9.8M | 20% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $7.3M | 40% |
| FY2021 | 20 | $2.7M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $2.5M | 42% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $1.9M | 67% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $985k | 57% |
| FY2017 | 5 | $380k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Water Foundation | $7,500,000 | 6 | 9% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $3,100,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Big Sur Land Trust | $2,990,000 | 7 | 16% |
| Land Trust Alliance Inc | $2,750,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Parks California | $2,425,000 | 3 | 19% |
| National Park Foundation | $2,000,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sustainable Conservation | $1,925,000 | 4 | 11% |
| Naturebridge | $1,875,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Watershed Solutions Network | $1,000,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Save the Redwoods League | $975,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 55 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Laural Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 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: The San Francisco Foundation · Am Dachs Foundation · Esb Charitable Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Evelyn and Walter Haas Jr Fund · The Keith Campbell Foundation for the Environment Inc
How this is measured
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About Laural Foundation
- How much does Laural Foundation give?
- Laural Foundation reported 84 grants totaling $18,585,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 41 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Laural Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (67%), Philanthropy (10%), Recreation & Sports (6%).
- Who are Laural Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Water Foundation ($7.5M), Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated ($3.1M), Big Sur Land Trust ($3.0M).
- Does Laural Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Laural 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 Laural Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The San Francisco Foundation, Am Dachs Foundation, Esb Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Laural Foundation based?
- Laural Foundation is based in CA.
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