California · Private foundation
Michael and Catherine Podell Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $520k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2024
- 21
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 21
- FY2019 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 5
- Total assets, FY2024
- $15M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Michael and Catherine Podell Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $91k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 20 | $520k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $786k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $585k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $383k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $1.4M | 43% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $741k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation | $820,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $539,532 | 4 | 0% |
| Lifemoves | $467,135 | 5 | 0% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $382,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Epacenter | $160,000 | 4 | 14% |
| Achieve Foundation Inc | $145,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Sage Compassion for Animals | $75,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Meals on Wheels of San Francisco Inc | $66,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Samaritan House | $66,500 | 5 | 0% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $65,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Michael and Catherine Podell Fund 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: Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Rupert H Johnson Jr Foundation Rupert H Johnson Jr Trustee · The David and Lucile Packard Foundation · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Marin Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
About Michael and Catherine Podell Fund
- How much does Michael and Catherine Podell Fund give?
- Michael and Catherine Podell Fund reported 20 grants totaling $520,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 21 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
- What does Michael and Catherine Podell Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (31%), Health (29%), Housing & Shelter (11%).
- Who are Michael and Catherine Podell Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation ($820k), Smithsonian Institution ($540k), Lifemoves ($467k).
- Does Michael and Catherine Podell Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Michael and Catherine Podell Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Michael and Catherine Podell Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Silicon Valley Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation, Rupert H Johnson Jr Foundation Rupert H Johnson Jr Trustee.
- Where is Michael and Catherine Podell Fund based?
- Michael and Catherine Podell Fund is based in CA.
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