California · Private foundation
Luna Foundation Inc
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.
- $270k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 40
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 28%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $141,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 28% of the organizations Luna Foundation Inc 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; $49k 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 | 36 | $270k | 14% |
| FY2024 | 40 | $245k | 28% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $200k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 65 | $189k | 52% |
| FY2021 | 35 | $96k | 66% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $13k | 46% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $16k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $36k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Voter Participation Center | $85,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Working America Education Fund | $80,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Aurora Theatre Company | $68,328 | 8 | 2% |
| Ground Game Fund | $60,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Working America | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Reach Shirati | $36,463 | 6 | 5% |
| The Mentor Project Inc | $29,010 | 4 | 61% |
| Berkeley Repertory Theatre | $27,109 | 8 | 0% |
| State Leadership Project | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Accelerate Change Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 56 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($447k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Luna Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 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: East Bay Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · The Yelp Foundation · Gordon E and Betty I Moore Foundation · Cerity Partners Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The James Irvine Foundation · The California Wellness Foundation · Tides Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation
How this is measured
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About Luna Foundation Inc
- How much does Luna Foundation Inc give?
- Luna Foundation Inc reported 36 grants totaling $269,592 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Luna Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Public Benefit (32%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Luna Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Voter Participation Center ($85k), Working America Education Fund ($80k), The Aurora Theatre Company ($68k).
- Does Luna Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Luna Foundation Inc 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 Luna Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include East Bay Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Impactassetsinc.
- Where is Luna Foundation Inc based?
- Luna Foundation Inc is based in CA.
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