California · Private foundation
McDorobush 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.
- $93k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 29
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 47 to 57
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $399k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations McDorobush Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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 | 28 | $88k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $105k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 50 | $78k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 47 | $70k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 49 | $96k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 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, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rotary Club of Palo Alto | $60,500 | 5 | 48% |
| Palo Alto Players Peninsula Center Stage | $35,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Avenidas | $30,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Palo Alto Community Fund | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Phillips Collection | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Sutter Bay Medical Foundation | $10,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Sustainable Conservation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Elizabeth F Gamble Garden | $7,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Downtown Streets Inc | $6,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Stanford Jazz Workshop | $5,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($216k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
McDorobush Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 28 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About McDorobush Family Foundation
- How much does McDorobush Family Foundation give?
- McDorobush Family Foundation reported 29 grants totaling $93,150 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 47 and 57 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does McDorobush Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Education (24%), Community Improvement (15%).
- Who are McDorobush Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Rotary Club of Palo Alto ($61k), Palo Alto Players Peninsula Center Stage ($35k), Avenidas ($30k).
- Does McDorobush Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does McDorobush 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 McDorobush Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma.
- Where is McDorobush Family Foundation based?
- McDorobush Family Foundation is based in CA.
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