California · Private foundation
Makoff Family 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.
- $153k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $21,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 29 to 38
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Makoff Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 12 | $153k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $144k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 35 | $135k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $154k | 37% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $150k | 37% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $69k | 43% |
| FY2019 | 29 | $65k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 31 | $74k | 16% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Fund for Unicef | $65,500 | 8 | 0% |
| William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc | $55,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $46,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center | $34,500 | 6 | 0% |
| International Medical Corps | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| 350org | $20,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Coalition for Engaged Education | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $20,000 | 6 | 0% |
| VASA Educational Services | $20,000 | 2 | 7% |
| The Pilot Light Foundation | $19,500 | 8 | 2% |
Show all 37 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($451k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Makoff Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Liberty Hill Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Makoff Family Foundation
- How much does Makoff Family Foundation give?
- Makoff Family Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $153,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 29 and 38 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Makoff Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (25%), Health (20%), Education (15%).
- Who are Makoff Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: United States Fund for Unicef ($66k), William J Brennan Center for Justice Inc ($55k), The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research ($46k).
- Does Makoff Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Makoff Family 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 Makoff Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Liberty Hill Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Makoff Family Foundation based?
- Makoff Family Foundation is based in CA.
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