California · Private foundation
Menard 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.
- $685k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 53
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 4%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $63,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $13M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 4% of the organizations Menard 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; $4k 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 | 50 | $685k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 53 | $797k | 4% |
| FY2023 | 54 | $841k | 9% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $791k | 8% |
| FY2021 | 53 | $756k | 8% |
| FY2020 | 50 | $772k | 2% |
| FY2019 | 55 | $738k | 13% |
| FY2018 | 54 | $731k | 11% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Scripps Health | $993,675 | 9 | 0% |
| Zoological Society of San Diego | $867,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Vincent de Paul Village Inc | $530,110 | 9 | 0% |
| Nativity Prep Academy of San Diego Inc | $209,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego | $194,000 | 9 | 0% |
| St Madeleine Sophies Center Inc | $159,400 | 9 | 0% |
| Casa Cornelia Legal Services | $155,086 | 9 | 1% |
| Lambs Players Theatre | $131,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Cristo Rey San Jose High School | $126,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Homeboy Industries | $119,500 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Menard Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 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: Sempra Foundation · The San Diego Foundation · The Conrad Prebys Foundation · The Parker Foundation · Price Philanthropies Foundation · Rancho Santa Fe Foundation · Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of San Diego · Lucky Duck Foundation · Walter J & Betty C Zable Foundation · David C Copley Foundation · The Rotary Foundation of Rotary International
How this is measured
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About Menard Family Foundation
- How much does Menard Family Foundation give?
- Menard Family Foundation reported 50 grants totaling $685,488 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Menard Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (22%), Education (15%), Animals (14%).
- Who are Menard Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Scripps Health ($994k), Zoological Society of San Diego ($867k), St Vincent de Paul Village Inc ($530k).
- Does Menard Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 4% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Menard 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 Menard Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Sempra Foundation, The San Diego Foundation, The Conrad Prebys Foundation.
- Where is Menard Family Foundation based?
- Menard Family Foundation is based in CA.
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