California · Private foundation
Orr Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.2M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 28
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $550,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 33
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 9
- Total assets, FY2024
- $46M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 63% of the organizations Orr Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 27% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $376k 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 | 23 | $1.7M | 43% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.4M | 63% |
| FY2022 | 10 | $818k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $1.6M | 43% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $904k | 63% |
| FY2019 | 33 | $1.9M | 61% |
| FY2018 | 15 | $535k | 73% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $886k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $1,701,000 | 5 | 0% |
| California Institute of Technology | $1,623,820 | 7 | 0% |
| Community Partners International | $1,475,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Media Matters for America | $544,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Friends International Inc | $380,000 | 4 | 23% |
| Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives | $340,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Se Asia Foundation | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Machik Corp | $180,000 | 2 | 29% |
| The Voter Participation Center | $160,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Thrive Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 16% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Orr Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The San Francisco Foundation · Tides Foundation · Marin Community Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Impactassetsinc · East Bay Community Foundation · Windward Fund · New Venture Fund · Hopewell Fund · The James Irvine Foundation
How this is measured
About Orr Family Foundation
- How much does Orr Family Foundation give?
- Orr Family Foundation reported 28 grants totaling $2,177,500 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 33 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Orr Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are International (24%), Science & Tech (17%), Health (15%).
- Who are Orr Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($1.7M), California Institute of Technology ($1.6M), Community Partners International ($1.5M).
- Does Orr Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Orr 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 Orr Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, The San Francisco Foundation, Tides Foundation.
- Where is Orr Family Foundation based?
- Orr Family Foundation is based in CA.
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