California · Private foundation
Levi Strauss 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.
- $9.6M
- Granted FY2022
- 76
- Grants FY2022
- 61
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 48%
- First-time grantees FY2022
Read this first · the figures below need context
85% of Levi Strauss Foundation’s FY2024 grant dollars went to American Online Giving Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2022, the last year Levi Strauss Foundation named its own grantees at scale: 51 organizations, $10M. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
- Median grant, FY2022
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $507,211
- Organizations funded a year
- 61 to 88
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 16
- Total assets, FY2022
- $81M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 48% of the organizations Levi Strauss Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 46% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 54% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.8M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 61 | $8.3M | 48% |
| FY2021 | 80 | $8.1M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 86 | $8.8M | 40% |
| FY2019 | 85 | $7.4M | 53% |
| FY2017 | 88 | $6.1M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| AIDS United | $1,580,000 | 5 | 9% |
| Transgender Law Center | $1,005,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc | $825,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Faith in Action Network | $775,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Ella Baker Center for Human Rights | $710,833 | 5 | 5% |
| International Planned Parenthood Federation - Worldwide Inc | $675,000 | 3 | 3% |
| International Refugee Assistance Project Inc | $650,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Msi US | $600,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Council on American-Islamic Relations California | $586,833 | 4 | 3% |
| Faith in Action | $576,833 | 3 | 70% |
Show all 132 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 98 recipients with no EIN on record ($15M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Levi Strauss Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 125 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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Ford Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Borealis Philanthropy · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc
How this is measured
About Levi Strauss Foundation
- How much does Levi Strauss Foundation give?
- Levi Strauss Foundation reported 76 grants totaling $9,620,417 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 88 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Levi Strauss Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (25%), Civil Rights (24%), International (15%).
- Who are Levi Strauss Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: AIDS United ($1.6M), Transgender Law Center ($1.0M), Cooperative for Assistance and Relief Everywhere Inc ($825k).
- Does Levi Strauss Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 48% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Levi Strauss 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 Levi Strauss Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The Ford Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Levi Strauss Foundation based?
- Levi Strauss Foundation is based in CA.
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