California · Private foundation
Oberndorf 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.
- $21M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 52
- Grants FY2025
- 52
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,508,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 74
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $64M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Oberndorf Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.5M 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 | 49 | $21M | 37% |
| FY2024 | 52 | $15M | 54% |
| FY2023 | 49 | $18M | 37% |
| FY2022 | 64 | $21M | 58% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $17M | 61% |
| FY2020 | 41 | $18M | 34% |
| FY2019 | 50 | $1.4M | 52% |
| FY2018 | 74 | $6.9M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc | $16,536,000 | 5 | 25% |
| University School | $15,200,000 | 3 | 14% |
| University of California San Francisco Foundation | $14,112,827 | 3 | 2% |
| Dr Howard Fuller Collegiate Academy Inc | $5,300,000 | 3 | 47% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $2,650,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $2,510,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy | $2,025,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Tipping Point Community | $1,400,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Edgewood Center for Children and Families | $1,075,000 | 2 | 3% |
| California Academy of Sciences | $1,070,000 | 4 | 1% |
Show all 122 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 124 recipients with no EIN on record ($45M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Oberndorf Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 108 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · The San Francisco Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Robert and Dana Emery Family Foundation Rockefeller Trust Company · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Rosenberg Ach Foundation · Lisa Stone Pritzker Family Fund · Crescent Porter Hale Foundation · Golden State Community Foundation
How this is measured
About Oberndorf Family Foundation
- How much does Oberndorf Family Foundation give?
- Oberndorf Family Foundation reported 52 grants totaling $21,219,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 74 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Oberndorf Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (30%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are Oberndorf Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: American Federation for Children Growth Fund Inc ($17M), University School ($15M), University of California San Francisco Foundation ($14M).
- Does Oberndorf Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Oberndorf 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 Oberndorf Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Marin Community Foundation, The San Francisco Foundation.
- Where is Oberndorf Family Foundation based?
- Oberndorf Family Foundation is based in CA.
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